While chasing a mammoth total of 315, the Indian batsmen failed to score runs in the sensible manner. A brave innings from the Captain Dhoni is not enough to finish things in India’s favour. Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat first. The Indian bowlers restricted Pak openers with their line and length upto 25 overs of the game. After that Salman Butt and Younis Khan, murdered the bowling attack of India. Both scored sparkling Centuries that helped Pakistan to get a huge total of 315 . Salman scored 129 from 136 balls with 12 fours and 3 sixes. Salman retired hurt after scoring this century. Younis khan scored 108 runs just from 99 balls with 8 fours and 3 sixes. Pakistan finished their innings with 315 runs with the loss of three wickets.
For chasing a huge target, India need a good opening partnership. Sehwag once again failed in the final by scoring just 2 runs from 8 balls. The inform batsman Gautham Gambhir scored 40runs from just 33 balls with 4 fours and 1 six. After that Rohit Sarma, Suresh Raina and Yousuf Pathan started their innings effectively, but couldn’t produce a matured innings. The experienced Vice Captain Yuv Raj Singh scored 56 runs from 59 balls with 5 fours and 1 six. Irfan Pathan miserably failed in the slog overs as he wasted so many balls without scoring runs. Then the quick fire works from Dhoni (64 runs from 59 balls with 3 fours and two sixes) increases the pressure of the Pakistani players. But he fell to Afridi’s bowling after hitting a huge six in the same over.
Man of the Match-Younis Khan
Man of the Series- Salman Butt
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