India - England triller ends in a tie!

This was a bold both India and England adapted to lose but in the end it was a tie. If the Indians seemed absent while arresting a added than advantageous 338, the English afterwards actuality in a position to blemish the Indian affair on a angle on which the accepted demons did not surface, aback seemed to accept invoked the devil himself. In the end what transpired was the fourth anytime tie in the history of the World Cup.

The bout affected like a pendulum. The Indian absolute of 338, set up by a almanac fifth World Cup ton from Sachin Tendulkar, looked acceptable abundant at the break, added so as the hosts had gone in with two spinners. England captain Andrew Strauss had altered account as he set about all but obfuscating Tendulkar's beating with his beginning World Cup ton.

Then came the batting Powerplay. Aback from an alarming 280/2 from 43 overs, aback Strauss (158, 145b, 18x4, 1x6) and Bell (69, 71b, 4x4, 1x6) were activity able with a 170-run angle off 156 balls, things angry upside down. Zaheer Khan, hit about in his aboriginal two spells and captivated aback by Mahendra Singh Dhoni for the Powerplay, got two in two, sending aback Bell and Strauss to accessible up the bold again.

Suddenly the Indians were pumped up, as the English average and backward adjustment collapsed. But afresh two sixes, one anniversary by Graeme Swann and Tim Bresnan, both off Piyush Chawla's final over, the penultimate one of the innings, afresh afflicted the game. Fifteen had appear from that over abrogation 14 appropriate from the aftermost to be bowled by Munaf Patel. With cardinal 10 Ajmal Shazad on strike, the bout looked to be in India's grasp, but the brawl wasn't over by any means. A solid six and some agilely run singles brought the blueprint to two runs off the ball. They got one and the Bangalore crowd, some of whom had larboard aboriginal seeing India's affairs all but gone, got what they accepted least. A tie!

No added English bowler went beneath bristles an over, with James Anderson in absolute crisis of activity for alert that. Every Indian batsman got ashore into him. Tendulkar and Gambhir acclimated his aberrant band and breadth to abounding effect. That Tendulkar (120, 115b, 10x4, 5x6) best boundaries alike off his added good deliveries, ensured that it was not to be Anderson's day.

Once Sehwag (35, 26b, 6x4) had gone, dabbling at Bresnan for wicketkeeper Matt Prior to accompany off a accomplished one-handed bolt diving to his right, the right-left brace of Tendulkar and Gambhir (51, 61b, 5x4) took charge. Without attractive in any array of hurry, the master-blaster milked the bowlers afore assaulting them.

The innings wasn't aloof about Tendulkar and Gambhir though, alike if their 134-run additional wicket angle set it up. There was additionally Yuvraj Singh, accurately answer advanced of Kohli seeing that it was the 30th over, and Dhoni, whose 25-ball 31 went about unnoticed. Yuvraj (58, 50b, 9x4) wasn't at his chatty best but who knows this beating could able-bodied be the ablution pad for added to come.