The Pakistan arrived in India yesterday in Delhi International Airport. They are entitled to play 5 One Day International and 3 Test Matches in India. Its one of the ancient rivalries, that all the cricket fans are awaiting.
Tha Pakistan team is very entered in a positive attitude into India and are expecting a good series, even though the series loss against South Africa last week, says Pak Captain Shoib Malik. The Pakistan Medium Pace Bowler Mohd. Asif has been ruled out of the team due to elbow injury, and seems to be out of action for atleast on month.
But at the same time all eyes are upon the Rawalpindi Express Shoib Akthar. He had a very great comback at the final match against the SA match, with 4 wickets haul.
The Pak team was scheduled to play a warm-up match against Delhi Team today, in which the Pak team had a comfortable win for 7 wickets.
The Delhi Team started the match with its bat as the Pakistan Team won the toss and ecided to field. Delhi had a bad start, with Gautham out for 4 runs. Then the one down batsman S. Dhawan played very well and had 52 runs from 144 balls. Then R. Bhtia showed up and hit 75 runs from 138 balls. Thus the innings ended up on 213 runs for 9 wickets. The pick of the bowlers was Younis Khan with two wickets for 25 runs in 6 overs. The most economical bowler was Tanvir who bowled 10 overs by giving 25 runs with no wickets. Shoib, Alam, Gul and Afridi enede up with 1 wicket each.
Then entered the Pakistan Team into bat, with the openers Imran Nazir and Akmal, who too had a slow start. Salman Butt was the highest scrorer with 83 runs but was later retired hurt. Then with 7 wickets in hand the Pakistan team won the match. The most economical bowler for India was Bhandari with 25 runs from 7 overs and one wicket.
The real battle starts from Monday November 5th wherein the first macth of the series begins. All the Best to both the Teams.
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