Indian pacers stuck to their task to restrict the strong Australian batting line-up to 203 for nine but the batsmen messed it up as they crashed to a 50-run defeat in the tri-series one-dayer in Adelaide yesterday. The pacers especially young Ishanth Sharma and Irfan Pathan were really impressive by getting important wickets regularly. It seems like Sreesanth lost his touch. Munaf Patel justified his selection by getting the crucial wicket of Ricky Ponting. Still i did feel Praveen Kumar would have been right choice since he is an allrounder. When you go with only five specialized batsman, there is always need of all rounders like Praveen Kumar and Pathan.
The way indian batsmen played shows they are not in a position to play 50 over match yet. Especially Rohith Sharma and Yuvraj Singh throw their wickets in crunch times. I must say Uthappa should have batted at No.3 than Irfan Pathan in yesterday's match. The turning point of the match was Dhoni's dismissal.
Let's see how Indian team performs tomorrow against Srilanka.
Wishing Indian team good luck. Hope India will win the match and also get bonus point (Ohhh...Big dreams)..
Chak De India!!!
