SA WIN ODI SERIES
January 24th, 2011 by | Posted in Sports Comments Off on SA WIN ODI SERIESIndia won the toss and asked South Africa to bat first who scored 250 for 9 wickets. Rain had curtailed the match on Sunday at the Centurion and the Indians had been required to score a revised target of 268 in 46 overs.
If there was a fight-back by India, the lone crusader was Yusuf Pathan who launched an unparalleled assault to demonstrate that India meant business and that it shouldn’t be a cake-walk for South Africa but his knock could not provide the much needed victory to India.
Yusuf blasted a century off 68 balls and at that stage less than 50 runs were required for India to win the match and chaos was evident in the South African team. But after completing his century Yusuf gave a catch and was out much to the relief of South African team as well as the spectators.
The bowlers ran through the India’s top six in the batting order and apart from Parthiv Patel, 38 runs, there was no one to shoulder the responsibility. (more…)
