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India post 300 for 7 against Pakistan

India Blooms News Service | | Feb 15, 2015, at 06:49 pm

Adelaide, Feb 15 (IBNS): Team India made 300 runs after playing 50 overs in its first high voltage encounter with Pakistan in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 on Sunday here although lost 7 wickets to the Pakistani side.

Pakistani side did a very good bowling job especially its bowler Sohail Khan who picked up 5 wickets against India.

In a major blow, India started losing some crucial wickets successively in the last few overs like that of skipper MS Dhoni, Vice Captain Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja and Ajinkya Rahane.

However, Team Blue made it to 300 riding on the shoulders of Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan and Suresh Raina.

Kohli tried to go out for a big shot when Akmal took the catch. He was out after making 107.

Sohail Khan earlier got a big wicket for Pakistan with Suresh Raina's fall.

Raina made 74 from just 56 balls.

Pakistan earlier gained some fillip as they dismissed Shikhar Dhawan in a run-out in their first encounter with India on Sunday.

Dhawan left the crease at 73.

While India won the toss and elected to bat first against Pakistan in their first World Cup match here on Sunday, Indian fans received an early disappointment when Rohit Sharma exited the field by giving a simple catch to Misbah-ul-Haq.

India lost an early wicket in the high voltage match against Pakistan.

Following Sharma's wicket, Virat Kohli came to the crease.

India are the current world champions.

Incidentally, they have never lost a World Cup match against Pakistan.

Both the teams are given below:

India:

RG Sharma, S Dhawan, V Kohli, A Rahane, S Raina, MS Dhoni, R Jadeja, R Ashwin, U Yadav, M Sharma,Mohammed Shami

Pakistan:

Ahmed Shehzad, Younis Khan, Haris Sohail, Misbah-ul-Haq, Sohaib Maqsood, Umar Akmal, Shahid Afridi,Wahab Riaz, Yasir Shah, Sohail Khan, Mohammad Irfan

#India post 300 for 7 against Pakistan

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