And your wish was granted by the two teams. Amazing display of cricket.

Here are some of the Highlights of the match which are worth mentioning:

• Sehwag's attacking start and a great strokeful display of his batting
• "The Great Wall of India" standing up again for the country
• Useful contributions by Kaif and Ganguly
• Good start by India's pace bowlers
• Great fightback by Inzy and Youhana (Youhana is my fav Pak Cricketer)
• Positive mindset of Pakistani batsmen
• Kaif's scintillating diving catch
• Nehra's last full-toss ball which reminded of Javed Miandad
• Miandad's window-coaching...It was good to see players and coach thinking only Cricket

I believe Kaif's catch was the turning point of the match. The batsmen of both the team played equally well and bowlers of both the team have a lots of room for improvement.

Having said all these, kudos to the crowd of Karachi for being a very sportive audience. Every boundary was cheered be it by Sehwag or by Inzy.

Looking forward for the entire series...

Cheers,

Very true...Could have been a nasty collision and Kaif would have been packing his bags again but then, you need to take chances in such matches...


Perhaps that is what I like in current Indian team...they are ready to dive (and not after the ball has went thru their legs )

Waiting anxiously for today's encounter. All the best to both the teams...

Cheers,

Irfan is not preferred over Nehra by our team management. Balaji is bowling well so we cannot chuck him out and Zaheer is our strike bowler so this left no room for Pathan. But he is a good talent and shd be in team and he is 1000 times better in batting also compared to Nehra...


About Laxman, I agree that he is a great batsman. But in ODIs (even after performing well in triseries in Aus) he needs to improvise a bit. Not that he cannot do it but at this moment that is lacking.

Also, Badani has never done any harm whenever he is given a chance. He is a good fielder too. I am not sure why should we not include Badani in playing 11!!!!

Cheers,

Haan Congrats to Pakistan Team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Way to go guys!!

N

yes that's right that was indeed Rameez Raza!!!!!!!!!! I thought he was on the cricket board!! What in the god's name is he doing interviewing??

All rounder ki baat nahi hai Ashraf I have always loved music and sports and cricket takes the first place in sports that I love and my other passion is reading

N

Yes I still cant believe my eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope this friendly step ahead should sort out other differences and we have a peaceful neighbourhood

N

Abay yaar pradeep ... phir shuru ho gaye
Jab 1947 mein tum se kaha thaa to bolay thae ke india mein zyaada property hae meri, pakistan mein kya milay ga mujhe.
Ab hamari larkiyon ko dekh ke aahein bharo

I dont think so. Dravid did the right thing. This is a test cricket not some place to make your personal scoring. If it happens fine and btw he did give him 60 odd minutes to score and complete his second century - what was he doing ?

We did well and I think the credit goes to each one of them in our Team

Good show boys!

N

To tell it was a delibrate decision by Dravid is not true. Must be decision of team management and also Saurav was also there.

But I don't agree NimmiJi that management did right thing. Sachin was scoring well after Sehwag's departure and to score 6 more runs he would have needed at max 2 overs.

True, cricket is a team game but it is also a mutual give and take type of relationship between team and players. Scoring 200 gives you immense confidence and in turn that helps team as player carries that confidence over in his next innings. Worth mentioning here is that Sachin also scored 200+ in last match against Aus, so scoring 200 in successive matches is not what you can achieve everytime. So, in short I feel team management did injustice to Sachin but he is a team man and as he said after the victory that all issues are sorted out.

Anyways, three cheers for Indian team...

Cheers,