Cricket: "ICC World Twenty20 cup 2009 India Vs England"

India Will face England in their Second Super eight Match in ICC World Twenty20 Cup 2009. After loosing to WestIndies india have to win this match against England to keep their hopes alive in this tournment. If they loose England or westindies will have a outright chance of making it to the semifinals. Since southafrica have already qualified for semifinals. So this is a do or die situation for india.

Fourth time in a row Dhoni won the toss and elected to field first. Inspite of loosing the wicket of Luke Wright england made a reasonable start to their innings. Once the spinners were introduced runs were very hard to come by and England kept loosing wickets at regular intervals. But with the help of Ravi Bopara, Kevin Pietersen and Mascarenhas england made a very good yet defendable total of 153 in their 20 overs. For England Pietersen scored a quick fire 46, Bopara played a responsible 37 and late florish of 25 from Mascarenhas. For india Harbhajan took 3 and Jadeja 2 respectively.

Score of 153 is a decent total and hard to chase. But india has no other way other then to chase this total to stay alive in this tournment. Lets see how they fared in this do or die situation.

India didnt learn from their earlier mistakes and again toporder failed to strike. Wit just 24 on the board india lost Rohit sharma and Raina in quick succession. Jadega was promoted up the order, but he coudnt do any anything other than wasting the balls and creating more pressure on the players to come. They lost 3 quick wickets in the form of jadeja,Gambhir and Yuvraj. It was left to Dhoni and Yousuf Pathan to finish off the game. They tried their level best but fell short by 4 runs thus giving England a 3 run victory. For india Dhoni scored 30 and Pathan Scored 33 and both were notout till end. For England Sidebottom and Swann took 2 wickets a piece.

Side Bottom was adjudged Man of the Match for his Superb bowling during death overs.

With this loss india was knocked out of the tournment by england and they fancy their chances of heading to the semifinals. They will meet WestIndies tomorrow to decide who will go to semifinals. But for india they are already ont and will have to play Southafrica for pride. It was a very poor show from the defending champions and they have to blame for thier show.