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*Official* India in CWLand Discussion and Results
- Thread starter Mr Mxyzptlk
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new_age_ar
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You got some high standards there Smith.
We can't all score hundreds every Test. 
Gun effort by Young and Borcich so far. Bowlers in a good position to finish them off here.
dontcloseyoureyes
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Just trying to stir you up tbh.
Nate
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Travis_Teh
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Will be an excellent days cricket for the 5th day one feels.
Mr Mxyzptlk
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Stonewalling Dravid spares India's blushes
Day 5 - Cricket Web XI vs India - 2nd Test @ CW Oval
Rahul Dravid displayed exceptional concentration in a defiant effort, as he batted for 304 balls to help save the second Test for India. The Indians looked to be in trouble when they began with 9 wickets intact and a day to survive. The Webheads were consistently frustrated on the worn surface, and failed to finish off a game that they dominated.
The patient Rahul Dravid in action. (c) Getty Images
The first to fall on the day was Irfan Pathan (27), dropped twice before he nicked an attempted drive against Demeza. With the nightwatchman gone, Cricket Web XI hoped to make steady inroads into the opposition batting. Instead they were kept wicketless until lunch. Virender Sehwag raised a surprisingly careful half-century and he and Dravid continued well into the second session. Sehwag grew confident enough to notch 45 from 62 balls after lunch, bringing up a ton by pulling Neil Pickup for four runs. The CW XI captain was economical, but particularly ineffective on the fifth day pitch - a common theme of recent times - though he tempted Sehwag to a fatal slog, as the batsman was well caught by Demeza at deep midwicket.
The breakthrough gave CW XI a small opening, with 43 overs remaining in the game and 7 wickets to get. But that initiative gradually slipped away as Dravid and Tendulkar gradually ate away at the clock with little flair, but big courage. The first innings hero, Nick Borcich did not get the bounce of the first innings, but was amidst the action in the match. Pickup procured a leading edge of Tendulkar's bat, but Borcich dropped the chance, on his knees at mid-off. At that stage there was just greater than hour remaining, so the game pettered out with no other incident.
Cricket Web XI 1st innings 365 ao (126.5 overs)
PE Young 68, MW Wilson 52, RJ Dauth 54, H Mork 40, NS Pickup 39*
IK Pathan 5-86 Z Khan 3-85
India 1st innings 254 ao (83.3 overs)
MS Dhoni 50, VVS Laxman 49, W Jaffer/R Dravid 33
NA Borcich 5-74, TJ Demeza 4-81
Cricket Web XI 2nd innings 390-7 dec. (53 overs)
PE Young 128*, T Mamesh 66, H Mork 62, AP Cloete
Z Khan 3-85
India 2nd innings 297-3 (116 overs)
V Sehwag 105, R Dravid 75*, SR Tendulkar 40*
NS Pickup 1-55
Match drawn.
Man of the Match: PE Young (CW XI)
Scorecard
Ball by Ball
Day 5 - Cricket Web XI vs India - 2nd Test @ CW Oval
Rahul Dravid displayed exceptional concentration in a defiant effort, as he batted for 304 balls to help save the second Test for India. The Indians looked to be in trouble when they began with 9 wickets intact and a day to survive. The Webheads were consistently frustrated on the worn surface, and failed to finish off a game that they dominated.
The patient Rahul Dravid in action. (c) Getty Images
The first to fall on the day was Irfan Pathan (27), dropped twice before he nicked an attempted drive against Demeza. With the nightwatchman gone, Cricket Web XI hoped to make steady inroads into the opposition batting. Instead they were kept wicketless until lunch. Virender Sehwag raised a surprisingly careful half-century and he and Dravid continued well into the second session. Sehwag grew confident enough to notch 45 from 62 balls after lunch, bringing up a ton by pulling Neil Pickup for four runs. The CW XI captain was economical, but particularly ineffective on the fifth day pitch - a common theme of recent times - though he tempted Sehwag to a fatal slog, as the batsman was well caught by Demeza at deep midwicket.
The breakthrough gave CW XI a small opening, with 43 overs remaining in the game and 7 wickets to get. But that initiative gradually slipped away as Dravid and Tendulkar gradually ate away at the clock with little flair, but big courage. The first innings hero, Nick Borcich did not get the bounce of the first innings, but was amidst the action in the match. Pickup procured a leading edge of Tendulkar's bat, but Borcich dropped the chance, on his knees at mid-off. At that stage there was just greater than hour remaining, so the game pettered out with no other incident.
Cricket Web XI 1st innings 365 ao (126.5 overs)
PE Young 68, MW Wilson 52, RJ Dauth 54, H Mork 40, NS Pickup 39*
IK Pathan 5-86 Z Khan 3-85
India 1st innings 254 ao (83.3 overs)
MS Dhoni 50, VVS Laxman 49, W Jaffer/R Dravid 33
NA Borcich 5-74, TJ Demeza 4-81
Cricket Web XI 2nd innings 390-7 dec. (53 overs)
PE Young 128*, T Mamesh 66, H Mork 62, AP Cloete
Z Khan 3-85
India 2nd innings 297-3 (116 overs)
V Sehwag 105, R Dravid 75*, SR Tendulkar 40*
NS Pickup 1-55
Match drawn.
Man of the Match: PE Young (CW XI)
Scorecard
Ball by Ball
Mr Mxyzptlk
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Dravid opening the batting? Hasn't it been proven that that's a bad idea? Bizarre selection to drop Jaffer when he has had a reasonable series thus far with 4 starts, including a 50...
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Midnight GMT on Sunday.
Neil Pickup
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Delighted to make a Test and FC best of 39* but gutted that the game fell so flat - perhaps 500 was too much to declare on - it was never being chased down after all... Still, one win from two to take out the series.
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Perhaps. But a declaration an hour earlier would probably have been 50 or so runs short, meaning a run chase at less than 4 per over. Might have tempted India into the run chase, thus causing their downfall, but by the same measure it would be a very attainable target.
Neil Pickup
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And therefore prompt some looser shots. Positive!
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Learn your lesson. Give some tactics.
Nate
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May as well pick the whole team Camps.
Mr Mxyzptlk
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Not sure why the batting lineup would be shortened really. It's not like India's been batting consistently brilliantly in this series. And the bowling attack did pretty well in the last game. But the biggest issue here is that Ganguly wouldn't be happy to be dropped when he has 33 less runs than Tendulkar in one less innings in this series.
Averages so far...
Jaffer 33.40
Sehwag 48.50
Dravid 90.66
Tendulkar 46
Laxman 23.66
Ganguly 35.00
Dhoni 27.33
I agree that the bowling has been the most ineffective aspect for India thus far, but this isn't the subcontinent, so it's a bold move to play 6 batsmen and Pathan. Particularly Indian batsmen.
Averages so far...
Jaffer 33.40
Sehwag 48.50
Dravid 90.66
Tendulkar 46
Laxman 23.66
Ganguly 35.00
Dhoni 27.33
I agree that the bowling has been the most ineffective aspect for India thus far, but this isn't the subcontinent, so it's a bold move to play 6 batsmen and Pathan. Particularly Indian batsmen.
chaminda_00
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Disappointing draw, but Dravid and Tendulkar are two greats and really stood up there.
Travis_Teh
International Regular
Well that was a huge let down.