Re: 2nd ODI: India v Pakistan at Mohali - Nov 8, 2007
Bottom line --- Credit should be given where Credit is due (some people on here are failing to understand that).
Pakistan played very well. 321 was always going to be a tough ask. HOwever, the batsmen showed that if you keep on chipping away you can reduce the mountain to a mole. Younis was excellent but needs to show consistency in the following games. Afridi played his part to perfection with good support from tanvir and Butt from the top order.
Even though it seemed like with 321 india did not do much wrong. It should have been 350. Tendulkar and gambhir were looking very solid but again played poor strokes (credit to pakistani bowlers). The middle order could have also done much better. Overall, 321 was MORE than defendable.
As usual the indian bowlers let the team down after a good batting display. All in all the bowling lacks the aggression shown in some of the other better teams.
1-1 it is and the next one should be interesting to follow. Both the teams looked very convincing in batting today (cannot say the same about bowling). Maybe that will be the difference.