INAUGURAL ONEDAYER-INDIA vs ZIMBABVE

The inaugural onedayer between India&Zimbabve began today at Harare Sports Club Stadium,Zimbabve The match progressed without any interruption unlike England&West Indies. Rain preferred to behave co-operative & friendly without playing spoilsport as it happened recently in England&West indies Zimbabve won the toss &elected to make use of bat first in the traditional manner. There is not much to tell about the Zimbabve innings except the good knock from Sikandar Raza the opener made 82 glorious runs to finish their final scote at 228 in their scheduled 50 overs, India began their innings with a bang but lost Shikar Dhavan early to be followed by Rohit Sharma scoring 17&20 runs respectively. There after Virat Kohli,the skipper&Ambati Rayudu sreadied the innings with a century&half century respectively In the crucial stage of the innings when India could have registered a magnificent win by 8 wickets Virat Kohli lost his wicket. Suresh Raina who joined Rayudu also lost his wicket, for reason best known to him alone.by executing an indifferent stroke.For a player of Raina's calibre this shot was something cricket lovers can not relish. Any how,Abati Rayudu with an unbeaten 63&Dinesh Kartik ,who joined him at the fall of Suresh Raina's wicket, scored an unbeaten 8 runs to find India home So,India now leads 1-0, the series of 5 matces,the remaining 4 matches to be played at Harare Sports Club Stadium on 26th&28th of July 2013 and Queen's Sports Club Stadium,Bulawayo on 1st&3rd August 2013. The scheduled time of the matches is 12-30 hrs (IST) on all the remaining 4 days. With every good wishes to both Zimbabve& Indian teams,I wish to take leave of you for the time being .Rest in next. SreedharanMundanat 24th July 2013 20-03 Hrs(IST)