The happy news is that India has chased
a good score and has won convincingly storming in to the finals, keeping their ‘no
loss’ in tact.
In every major tournament, the chokers
tag would chase them and SA have added one more to that ….. India are the
current holders of the World Cup and the Champions Trophy and are chasing a
third limited-overs crown while South Africa were aiming to break a major tournament hoodoo.
They have not won a knockout game at an ICC event in 16 years and today, rain
stayed away and they continued their form of loss.
The two teams have progressed to the
semi-finals in contrasting fashion. India have waltzed in there after winning
all their matches comfortably. They are the only unbeaten team in the league
stages. Their narrowest win came against West Indies - by seven wickets with
two balls to spare. Today Ashwin bowled
well for 4-0-22-3 – clearly the hero was Virat Kohli with a great unflinching
know. The Indian batsmen have not so far
been stretched as could be seen from the following
|
|
Pak
|
WI
|
Bangla
|
Austr
|
SA
|
Total
|
|
Rohit Sharma
|
24
|
62
|
56
|
5
|
24
|
171
|
|
S Dhawan
|
30
|
0
|
1
|
|
|
31
|
|
A Rahane
|
|
|
|
19
|
32
|
51
|
|
Virat Kohli
|
36
|
54
|
57
|
23
|
72
|
242
|
|
Yuvraj Singh
|
1
|
10
|
|
60
|
18
|
89
|
|
Suresh Raina
|
35
|
1
|
|
6
|
21
|
63
|
|
Dhoni
|
|
|
22
|
24
|
0
|
46
|
|
R Jadeja
|
|
|
|
3
|
|
3
|
|
Ashwin
|
|
|
|
2
|
|
2
|
|
Bhuvnaesh Kumar`
|
|
|
|
0
|
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
|
131
|
130
|
141
|
159
|
176
|
737
|
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar. @ 10 pm on 3rd Apr 2014.
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