India sneak 5-run win over Kent in rain-hit match
Kent: Virat Kohli shone with a stroke-filled 78 as a scratchy India eked out a thrilling five-run win over Kent in their rain-curtailed 20-overs-a-side practice match at the St Lawrence ground.
Chasing India's competitive 164 for six, Joe Denly turned out to be the lone warrior for Kent as he anchored the hosts innings with a 68-ball 100 on Friday night.
Martin van Jaarsveld (17)
and Darren Stevens (17)
tried hard to give Denly
support from the other
end but once the centurion departed, Kent's chase fell apart and the home team could only manage 159 runs for the loss of five wickets in 20 overs.
Left-arm seamer RP Singh
was the most successful
with the ball for India
picking up two wickets for 36 runs while Munaf Patel (1/22) and R Ashwin (1/30) scalped a wicket each.
With the win over Kent last night, India registered their second victory on English soil in the on going tour.
The Indians had earlier
defeated Sussex by six
wickets in their first limited overs practice match at Hove on Thursday.
Sent into bat, Kohli
slammed a quickfire 78 to help India post a
competitive 164 for six.
Kohli started from where
he left against Sussex and notched up his second half century of the tour in just 52 balls with the help of seven boundaries and three towering sixes.India's other half centurion
against Sussex, Rohit
Sharma, gave Kohli good
support from the other
end with a run-a-ball 30.
The duo shared 69 runs for the fourth wicket off just 48 deliveries to lay the foundation for India's score, especially after the visitors lost both the openers - Parthiv Patel (1) and Rahul Dravid (15) cheaply.
Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin played a good role
down the order with a 12-ball 23, but captain
Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Suresh Raina once again failed with the bat.
Dhoni had just arrived at
132 for four in the 17th
over when he slammed his first ball from spinner
James Tredwell hard, only to be caught at mid-on.
A ball before, Kohli was
run out after he was
pushed for a non-existent second run by Raina,whose poor form
continued as he could score just four before being bowled by Tredwell.
Torrential rains had earlier forced the 50-over-a-side match to be reduced to a Twenty20 fixture.
It was not the best of
starts for India as they lost
openers Parthiv and Dravid with the scoreboard reading 53. While Parthiv edged one to wicket-keeper Geraint
Jones, Dravid offered a
difficult catch to Tredwell
at mid-on off left-arm
pacer Adam Ball. For Kent, Tredwell turned
out to be the pick of the
bowlers grabbing two
wickets for 18 runs.
Chasing India's competitive 164 for six, Joe Denly turned out to be the lone warrior for Kent as he anchored the hosts innings with a 68-ball 100 on Friday night.
Martin van Jaarsveld (17)
and Darren Stevens (17)
tried hard to give Denly
support from the other
end but once the centurion departed, Kent's chase fell apart and the home team could only manage 159 runs for the loss of five wickets in 20 overs.
Left-arm seamer RP Singh
was the most successful
with the ball for India
picking up two wickets for 36 runs while Munaf Patel (1/22) and R Ashwin (1/30) scalped a wicket each.
With the win over Kent last night, India registered their second victory on English soil in the on going tour.
The Indians had earlier
defeated Sussex by six
wickets in their first limited overs practice match at Hove on Thursday.
Sent into bat, Kohli
slammed a quickfire 78 to help India post a
competitive 164 for six.
Kohli started from where
he left against Sussex and notched up his second half century of the tour in just 52 balls with the help of seven boundaries and three towering sixes.India's other half centurion
against Sussex, Rohit
Sharma, gave Kohli good
support from the other
end with a run-a-ball 30.
The duo shared 69 runs for the fourth wicket off just 48 deliveries to lay the foundation for India's score, especially after the visitors lost both the openers - Parthiv Patel (1) and Rahul Dravid (15) cheaply.
Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin played a good role
down the order with a 12-ball 23, but captain
Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Suresh Raina once again failed with the bat.
Dhoni had just arrived at
132 for four in the 17th
over when he slammed his first ball from spinner
James Tredwell hard, only to be caught at mid-on.
A ball before, Kohli was
run out after he was
pushed for a non-existent second run by Raina,whose poor form
continued as he could score just four before being bowled by Tredwell.
Torrential rains had earlier forced the 50-over-a-side match to be reduced to a Twenty20 fixture.
It was not the best of
starts for India as they lost
openers Parthiv and Dravid with the scoreboard reading 53. While Parthiv edged one to wicket-keeper Geraint
Jones, Dravid offered a
difficult catch to Tredwell
at mid-on off left-arm
pacer Adam Ball. For Kent, Tredwell turned
out to be the pick of the
bowlers grabbing two
wickets for 18 runs.
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