SA thrashed BAN:WC campaign ends for Bangla Tigers

The journey of Bangladesh in the 10th world cup almost ended after
suffering a humiliating defeat against South Africa at home. In this
now-or-never contest at Sher-E-Bangla stadium Bangla Tigers
surrendered before the favorite proteas and lost the game by a huge
margin of 206 runs.South Africa rested their fiercy paceman due Steyn
and Morkel along with in form batsman AB Deviliers but the proteas won
the game convincingly.South Africa put on a huge total of 284 runs by
excellent batting displays of Amla,Smith,Kallis and Du Plessis.In
response to the run chase the Bangladeshi top order was ripped out by
seamer Tsotsobe.Bangladesh never recovered from initial blows and
bundled out for a merely 78 runs.With a negative run rate of -1.361
bangladesh is almost out of this compitition and entertaining England
entered into the Quarter finals.

South Africa snatched a thriller against Confident Host

At VCA stadium,Nagpur another fantastic game ended between two best teams.At the end the Proteas were the winner beating strong Indian team by 3 wickets.Earlier MSD won the toss and decided to bat at the sporty Jamtha wicket.Sachin and Sehwag were at their best and hitting the best bowling line up of the world all around the park.Tendulkar,who made his 48th ODI ton and overall 99th century during his excellent knock of 111.Sachin and Sehwag accumulated 142 runs for the 1st wicket stand in just 17.4 overs.India scored record 87 runs in the mandatory powerplay.Then Shewag draged a delivery of Faf du Plesiss on to his stumps after scoring 73 off just 66 balls.Then Gambhir join the party with Tendulkar and both made 125 runs for the 2nd wicket partnership.Tendulkar scored his century of just 92 balls.Soon he misshit Morkel and got out.India were 267 for 1 at 39.4 overs.But the real tragedy begun then.Gambhir and Promoted Pathan gave away their wickets trying to go for runs.This led the tragic collapse of Indian innings.India scored just 30 runs and lost 4 wickets in batting powerplay.India lost its 9 wickets for just 26 runs in a span of 9 overs.Steyn,who was not impressive in his first spell bowled superbly and destructed Indian innings.Steyn picked 5 for 50 from 9.4 overs.India, which once looked to reach 350 had got all out to just 296.In response the Proteas started watchfully.Smith was struggling to Indian pacers,but Amla was playing well.Zaheer got his bunny Smith in 9th over.But the cool headed Amla and experienced Kallis led the charge and made 86 runs partnership before Amla(61) was caught behind off Harbhajan.Then man-in-form AB Deviliers joined and they were playing well.Crucial run out of Kallis(69) changed the game.But then AB and JP Duminy took batting powerplay and thrashed Indian bowlers.In the final over of powerplay dangerous AB caught on the mid-wicked boundary by Kohli off Harbhajan.Deviliars made a quick 52 off 39 before getting out.India came back to game by taking quick wickets of AB,JP Duminy and Van wyk but cool headed Du Plessis batted sensibly and J Botha smashed some fine strokes before caught on a miss-hit.SA needed 13 runs off last over and this time Nehra was given the ball.Robin Peterson smashed two back to back boundaries for 10 runs.South Africa won the game with 2 balls to spare.Dale Steyn was man of the match for his excellent bowling performance.

India passed Dutch test,qualifies for QFs

India continued their dominance and well on their to quarter finals after beating Netherlands by 5 wickets at Feroz shah kotla.The low scoring contest was almost a one-sided affair.Dhoni again kept faith on UP leggie Chawla. Local guy Nehra got a chance to play in the place of Munaf.The Dutch won the toss and batted first.The Dutch openers Eric(28) and Barressi(26) gave a good start.They put together 56 runs for the opening partnership before Eric was castled by Chawla.Last match's hero,Yuvraj then took 2 wickets quickly by dismissing Barressi and Ten Doeschate.The Netherlands were 3 for 99.Then Nehera on his 1st ball of 2nd spell got the wicket of set batsman Cooper(29).Bas Juiderent was next to depart after being struck square on the pads by a reverse swinging delivery from Zaheer.Then Dutch captain Borren(38) and Mudassar Bukhari(21) made a partnership to help their side to reach close to 200 run mark.But a superb spell from Zaheer dismissed both to conclude the Dutch innings.The Netherlands were bundled out on a modest 189 in 47th over.In response,openers Sachin and Sehwag gave India a brisk start and it looked like the game would be over than expected.But Sehwag(39) caught at cover off Peter Seelar in the 8th over.Seelar then went on to dismiss Sachin (27) and new man Pathan(11) in one over.Sachin past the 2000 world cup runs mark during his innings.In 15th over Kohli was bowled by Borren and India were 99-4 and Dutch were in little bit of hope of an upset.But Gambhir (28) and Yuvraj put 40 runs for 5th wicket stand before Gambhir was castled by Bukhari in 24th over.Then skipper Dhoni and Yuvraj guided India to get past the required score with 13.3 overs to spare.Yuvraj awarded man of the match for his all round performance.The victory over the Dutch virtually sealed a berth for the hosts in the quarterfinals.