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Friday, April 4, 2014

India through to Finals ! ~ SA choke again...

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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