- BATSMENRB4s6sSR13 picks up his second wicket, it was fast and coming in, Sehwag leaves a huge gap between the bat and pad, the ball crashes the middle stump, which gets uprooted. 64/210.1 a soft dismissal, it was short and wide outside the off stump and what does Ganguly do, just puts his bat horizontally and the ball lobs up straight into the hands of Stelling at cover. 60/115.2 the ball pitches outside the off stump and comes in, too close for the cut shot, drags it onto his stumps 82/335.2 makes room and looks to go over extra-cover, hits to the right of van Troost, who takes the catch 198/441.3 bit slower from Borren, Dravid launches it high in the air to long on, not a well timed shot, Kervezee at long on takes the catch 245/542.4 flicks it straight to short fine leg 248/648.2 swings it high in the air to deep square leg, Reekers settles under it well and takes a good catch 283/843.1 ball keeps low and knocks back the stumps as Karthik pushes at the ball 248/748.4 driven straight to van Troost at mid off, ten picks up 5 wickets 284/9Extras33 (b 3, lb 7, nb 12, w 11)TOTAL300/9 (50 Overs, RR: 6)Fall of wickets: 1-60 (Sourav Ganguly, 10.1 ov), 2-64 (Virender Sehwag, 12.6 ov), 3-82 (Robin Uthappa, 15.2 ov), 4-198 (Sachin Tendulkar, 35.2 ov), 5-244 (Rahul Dravid, 41.3 ov), 6-248 (Yuvraj Singh, 42.4 ov), 7-251 (Dinesh Karthik, 43.1 ov), 8-283 (MS Dhoni, 48.2 ov), 9-284 (Harbhajan Singh, 48.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB MBS Jonkman 5 0 36 0 7.20 1 7 DJ Reekers 8 1 34 1 4.25 2 0 RN ten Doeschate 10 1 57 5 5.70 1 0 TBM de Leede 10 2 41 1 4.10 2 0 WF Stelling 5 0 33 0 6.60 0 1 Mohammad Kashif 5 0 44 0 8.80 1 0 PW Borren 7 0 45 2 6.42 1 0
- BATSMENRB4s6sSR22.1 short and wide outside the off stump, cuts it hard straight into the hands of Karthik at backward-point. Hit it well but found the fielder. 64/38.5 good ball pitches on the off stump line and comes in, Reekers on the back foot is struck on the pad, loud appeal, given by the umpire, would have crashed into the stumps 19/119.4 dances down the track as Harbhajan fires in quicker delivery bit wide outside the off stump, Dhoni whips off the bails. Kervezee had no time to get back 56/230.2 quicker delivery strikes the pad in line with the off stump, loud appeal given by umpire Bucknor 100/524 good ball the doosra, comes down the track and misses, the spin going away beat the bat and Dhoni behind the wicket does the rest to remove the bails 69/431.1 strikes first ball, comes in with the arm, plays forward along the wrong line, strikes the pad, given by the umpire 102/633.4 excellent delivery pitches on the off stump and spins away, takes the outside edge and Dhoni behind the wicket takes the catch 105/832.5 uses his feet and looks to go over the off side in front of the wicket, gets the outside edge in the air to backward-point, Ganguly runs across and takes the catch 105/737.4 looking to run it down to thirdman, gets the edge to Dhoni behind the stumps 118/937.5 quicker delivery and on target, plays down the wrong line, strikes the pad, appeal upheld by umpire Asoka de Silva 118/10Extras9 (lb 2, nb 3, w 4)TOTAL118 all out (37.5 Overs, RR: 3.11)Fall of wickets: 1-19 (Darron Reekers, 8.5 ov), 2-56 (Alexei Kervezee, 19.4 ov), 3-64 (Bas Zuiderent, 22.1 ov), 4-69 (Daan van Bunge, 23.6 ov), 5-100 (Ryan ten Doeschate, 30.2 ov), 6-102 (Eric Szwarczynski, 31.1 ov), 7-105 (Luuk van Troost, 32.5 ov), 8-105 (Tim de Leede, 33.4 ov), 9-118 (Peter Borren, 37.4 ov), 10-118 (Jeroen Smits, 37.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB IK Pathan 6 2 12 1 2.00 2 1 S Sreesanth 7 1 24 0 3.42 2 1 MM Patel 8 0 30 1 3.75 0 1 Harbhajan Singh 8 0 24 2 3.00 0 0 A Kumble 5 1 14 2 2.80 0 0 Yuvraj Singh 3.5 2 12 4 3.13 0 0
Match Details
Players per side
13(11batting, 11 fielding)
Toss
Netherlands , elected to field first
Season
Hours of play (local time)
09.30 start, First Session 09.30-13.00. Interval 13.00-13.45, Second Session 13.45-17.15
Match days
6 March 2007 (50-over match)
Umpires
Close of Play
- Tue, 6 Mar - day 1 - Netherlands 118 (37.5 ov)