When It's a match between India and Pakistan, it's always a battle between these two ferocious nations. What would happen if these two nations clash for a berth in World cup Final. It's going to be even more interesting. Yes! On 30th March 2011, at Mohali Stadium, amidst of the huge crowd, this very battle was started again.
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This time, the cricket battle gained even more prominence as Prime Ministers of both nations were present and watching the match. Political queen, Sonia Gandhi, her heir Rahul Gandhi was also present at the time of the match. Many more Movie stars, Business people attended the match.
It was certainly an exciting match with an overall performance from all sides. But there is only a single winner and guess who ?? It's India again. India remained as an undefeatable champion for pakistan in World cups again. So far, India and Pakistan played 4 matches in World cup and India remained the victor in these matches. With this match adding up to the tally, India continued the trend with 5-0 victory statistics against pakistan.
The match started with a good partner ship between Sachin Tendulkar (85) and Sehwag(38). Sehwag got out early at 5.5 overs. That is when Indian batting stumbled with slow run rate from Gambhir, Kohli. Yuvraj was a surprise shock for India as he was bowled out duck for the very first ball he faced. After Yuvraj, Dhoni couldn't continue the rhythm. Suresh Raina stood at last and remained as a perfect finisher for the match. With all the effort put from Team India, India put a score of 261 to Chase for the other team.
Pakistan's Innings started good but kept losing wickets steadily in regular intervals. Indian bowlers Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Ashish Nehra, Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh led the charge and sealed the victory. Yuvraj shined with bowling by taking crucial wickets and Harbhajan Singh showed his presence with tactical bowling. The three pacers also proved useful in this match.
Vs This time, the cricket battle gained even more prominence as Prime Ministers of both nations were present and watching the match. Political queen, Sonia Gandhi, her heir Rahul Gandhi was also present at the time of the match. Many more Movie stars, Business people attended the match.
It was certainly an exciting match with an overall performance from all sides. But there is only a single winner and guess who ?? It's India again. India remained as an undefeatable champion for pakistan in World cups again. So far, India and Pakistan played 4 matches in World cup and India remained the victor in these matches. With this match adding up to the tally, India continued the trend with 5-0 victory statistics against pakistan.
The match started with a good partner ship between Sachin Tendulkar (85) and Sehwag(38). Sehwag got out early at 5.5 overs. That is when Indian batting stumbled with slow run rate from Gambhir, Kohli. Yuvraj was a surprise shock for India as he was bowled out duck for the very first ball he faced. After Yuvraj, Dhoni couldn't continue the rhythm. Suresh Raina stood at last and remained as a perfect finisher for the match. With all the effort put from Team India, India put a score of 261 to Chase for the other team.
Pakistan's Innings started good but kept losing wickets steadily in regular intervals. Indian bowlers Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Ashish Nehra, Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh led the charge and sealed the victory. Yuvraj shined with bowling by taking crucial wickets and Harbhajan Singh showed his presence with tactical bowling. The three pacers also proved useful in this match.
Finally, Sachin Tendulkar won the Man of the Match award for his brilliant Innings of 85 under pressure. And this is how India entered the World cup final in 2011 thrashing Pakistan to victory !!
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