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Tendulkar, Sehwag blast centuries, India pile up 353/5
Hyderabad, Nov 15: Openers Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag struck swashbuckling centuries and added 182 for the first wicket as India amassed 353 for five against New Zealand in the last league match of the TVS Cup Triangular Series at the L B Stadium here today.
Hyderabad, Nov 15: Openers Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag struck swashbuckling centuries and added 182 for the first wicket as India amassed 353 for five against New Zealand in the last league match of the TVS Cup Triangular Series at the L B Stadium here today.
Vice-captain Rahul Dravid provided the blitzkrieg towards the end with an unbeaten, whirlwind fifty off just 22 balls.
Dravid, coming after the fall of the third wicket, bludgeoned the Kiwi attack for five fours and three sixes, reaching his fifty on the last ball of the innings with a brace.
Earlier, master blaster Tendulkar essayed a classic exhibition of breathtaking strokeplay to notch up his 36th hundred in just 87 balls with 12 fours and a massive six of Chris Harris, in One-Day Internationals and his second in the TVS Cup following the one against Australia. Sehwag's innings, on the other hand, began on a sedate note b his standards and was aided by a dropped catch by Lou Vincent. The dashing Delhi star was on 26 when Vincent floored a skier after the batsman miscued a lofted drive. He then clung on and went on to butcher the Kiwis in the latter part of the innings to compile the three-figure mark.
Bureau Report
Dravid, coming after the fall of the third wicket, bludgeoned the Kiwi attack for five fours and three sixes, reaching his fifty on the last ball of the innings with a brace.
Earlier, master blaster Tendulkar essayed a classic exhibition of breathtaking strokeplay to notch up his 36th hundred in just 87 balls with 12 fours and a massive six of Chris Harris, in One-Day Internationals and his second in the TVS Cup following the one against Australia. Sehwag's innings, on the other hand, began on a sedate note b his standards and was aided by a dropped catch by Lou Vincent. The dashing Delhi star was on 26 when Vincent floored a skier after the batsman miscued a lofted drive. He then clung on and went on to butcher the Kiwis in the latter part of the innings to compile the three-figure mark.
Bureau Report