"Hip-Hip hurray for India".......24 years and India has finally beaten pakistan in India. Strange huh......the king of subcontinent found it hard to beat pakistan on its home soil?
Anyways Pakistan can at least relax that it is a 3-2 loss.......so it was pretty close......but the Indian team need to take back quite a bit of learning out of the series...
For India:
+ve's:
1) Sachin back on top. His brilliance was visible in his knocks of 90's/
2) Reliable Yuvraj. Going against my previous post his knocks of near 50 in all of his five innings is really a very big plus.
3) Fielding. Surely the Indians provided a better show in the field. Looks like Robin singh is doing a good job
4) Inspired Leadership: Hats off to Dhoni for being Mr.Cool at all times. Also he had raised his own game to lead from the front both on the field 'keeping' and with the BAT as well.
-ve's:
1) Bowling: Though decent but it wasn't anywhere near brilliant. No single bowler was reliable throughout the series except perhaps Harbhajan.
2) Sehwag: His 39 in the fourth match was his only knock that looked decent. Looks like his one-day innings is going to end.
3) Lacked the finishing touch: In the second match after the brilliance of Sachin, Indians failed to reach a total they deserved. Also the bowlers failed to restrict the PAKs even with a 320+ score. Even in the final match the batsmen were unable to capitalize on starts they got.
4) And last but not the least.....our running between the wickets need to improve.
As for Pakistan their team was no where looking complete and shoaib malik lacked the punch that dhoni possessed. But all in all an interesting series ended, and we will all be looking forward for the test series.
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