India Vs Paksitan match in ICC champions trophy

India was filled up with injured players more and inexperienced team as well. One bad game against the Paksitan has cost them a lot. And same Pakistan team has to decide the fate of India's chances to semi final. I strongly feel that match between Australia and Pakistan was fixed. Intially Pakistan bowlers did not very well at all but suddenly, they started bowling good balls, what happen to them in starting only god knows. Whatever, no pointing in blaming Pakistan, India's are clearly missing the services of Sehwag, Yuvaraj and Zaheer. Ishant Sharma for me is not suited for ODI's at all. India has seriously have to look for another spinner other than Yousuf Pathan and Harbhajan Singh. Yousuf Pathan batting is big flop from very long time. Same is the case with M S Dhoni as well. Sachin flopped and Dravid was having problems while running between wickets. He is poor rotator of ball and get stucks at one end if spinners are brought into the attack. Lot of things Indian team management has to study on India bowling and fielding. Good batting order is also need to be set. Continues shuffling of batting order is not good in view..

I think you are right in many of the aspects of what you have said above. You know, that Pakistan have at last ended their jinx of being defeated at an ICC event by India when they beat their arch-rivals by 48 runs in the Champions Trophy at the Centurion. Set a target of 303 runs to win India managed only 254 being bowled out inside 50 overs. India have only themselves to blame for their first ever defeat at the ICC event at the hands of Pakistan. Batting first Pakistan rode on a great century by Shoaib Malik who made 128 runs in the score and an equally significant contribution of 87 runs by Mohd. Yusuf. Earlier Ashish Nehra gave India good early breakthroughs by claiming two of the three wickets to fall. At 65 runs Pakistan were 3 down. But then Shoaib Malik and Mohd. Yusuf came in to stitch a double-century stand and take the score past the 300 run mark. Pakistan had no business to score more than 300 runs when they were down and out. But it was the lethargic Indian bowling attack that not only allowed the Pakistanis to set in but also set the Indians such a challenging target of 300+ that they failed to achieve it. It was only at the start of the 45th over, when the batting powerplay was taken that the Pakistani batsmen lost their wickets and ended the innings at 302/9. It was a good comeback by the Indian bowling though, for at one stage Pakistan looked to go well beyond the 325 run mark. Tendulkar and Gambhir started the Indian reply. Gambhir looked more attacking of the two. Tendulkar hit a good boundary through square and could do nothing much then. He was caught behind off the bowling of Aamir. Dravid joined in next and kept up the pace of good scoring with Gambhir. Gambhir was more attacking and scored more briskly than the 'Wall'. The Pakistani bowlers erred on more than one occasion with the front-foot no balls and almost each time Gambhir punished the bowler with a four or a six. But an unfortunate mix up with Dravid and a direct throw to run him out proved very costly for India. Dravid though, held fort for some time and top scored for India.

Yeh it was a bad performance from India. There was nothing good to say about the bowling. It looked very hopeless, all the main bolwers were expensive and they did not look like picking wickets. Credit to Mohammad Yousuf and Shoaib Malik for playing really well despite being three down. It looked like India missed Yuvraj Singhs slow left arm bowling. Indias batting was also not upto the mark either. Tendulkars wicket was a huge blow especially that Sehwag is not in the side. Gambhir played well though coming back from injury. Dravid was solid, but he and Gambhir just could not get going. They needed someone to score quickly around Dravid, but they lost wickets at regular intervals. And finally when Dravid got out it was all over India looks to be in a bit of trouble. They must win their remaining games now. Yesterday West Indies showed they can still play despite being the so called second grade side. Their bowling looked so much better, they had Australia on the back foot for most of the time. The batting was also good especially at the start. Lets hope for the best and may the best team win.

it is true that pakistani bowling side was weak but still they were united so thay got victory. enjoy with us our happy moments. overall india played well but unfortunately....................