5th ODI South Africa vs India at Centurion

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5th ODI South Africa vs India at Centurion

5th game of the series is underway.

South African XI: GC Smith, AB de Villiers, HH Gibbs, JH Kallis, AG Prince, MV Boucher, JM Kemp, SM Pollock, RJ Peterson, A Nel, M Ntini

Indian XI: V Sehwag, SR Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, D Mongia, KD Karthik, MS Dhoni, IK Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, A Kumble, S Sreesanth

India have started poorly with the bat yet again, Pollock taking the two wickets of Sehwad for 11 and Laxman for a first-ball duck.

South Africa have bowled well so far and have been accurate. India are 2/23 after 9.4 overs. Tendulkar on 3 (26 balls), Mongia on 5 (10 balls)

 

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India scored 1 run in the last 5 overs!
ONE SINGLE RUN!!

India 26-2 after 15.

 

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52-2 after 21 overs,
Tendulkar is finally starting to score some boundaries

 

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Tendulkar and Mongia turning this around here,
India 100-2 after 30 overs.

Sachin up to 54, Mongia on 25.

 

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Tendulkar and Mongia finally out. They both put up decent scores (55 and 41), but werent terribly quick about it.

India is 139-4 after 40. They won't bet getting anywhere near 250 here.

 

[Chandu]

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India is 139-4 after 40. They won't bet getting anywhere near 250 here.

And they didn't.

And it was a yawner watching South Africa beat up on these hapless, over-paid bufoons.

I wonder why they even bothered playing this stupid match (and by "they", I refer to the "so-called" Indian team). It was helpful for South Africa to bump up their ICC ranking, though.

 

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India finished 200-9
South Africa won with 201-1 in only 31.2 overs.
AB de Villiers with a new ODI high score of 92 not out.

A win by 9 wickets with more than 18 overs remaining. This has been an absolutely awful series for India. Could they possibly get any worse?

 

[Chandu]

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This has been an absolutely awful series for India. Could they possibly get any worse?

Hmm, let's see. They could lose to Bangladesh?