India beats Afghanistan by 7 wickets

Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia
May 01, 2010

India beat Afghanistan by 7 wickets to win their opening match of the 2010 World Twenty20. Winning the toss, MS Dhoni invited Afghans to bat first. Afghanistan managed to score 115 in their alloted twenty overs. In reply, India chased the target with 31 balls remaining. Nehra picked up 3 wickets for 19 runs and is the player of the match.

Scorecard

3rd Match, Group C - Afghanistan v India
Beausejour Stadium, St Lucia
May 01, 2010

Result: India won by 7 wickets
Toss: India won the toss and chose to field first.
Player of the match: Ashish Nehra

Afghanistan Innings		Runs	Balls	4s	6s	SR
Noor Ali	c MS Dhoni b Ashish Nehra	50	48	4	0	104.16
Karim Sadiq	c MS Dhoni b Ashish Nehra	0	4	0	0	0.00
Mohammad Shahzad (wk)	c MS Dhoni b Ashish Nehra	6	5	1	0	120.00
Nowroz Mangal (captain)	c Gautam Gambhir b Ravindra Jadeja	5	11	1	0	45.45
Asghar Stanikzai	c Zaheer Khan b Praveen Kumar	30	33	0	3	90.90
Mohammad Nabi	c MS Dhoni b Praveen Kumar	0	3	0	0	0.00
Raees Ahmadzai	not out	5	5	0	0	100.00
Samiullah Shenwari	run out (Ravindra Jadeja / MS Dhoni)	7	6	1	0	116.66
Hamid Hassan	c Ashish Nehra b Zaheer Khan	6	5	1	0	120.00
Shapoor Zadran	not out	0	0	0	0	0.00
Dawlat Ahmadzai
Extras	lb 3, w 3	6
		115 / 8 (20.0 overs)

Fall of Wickets
1-6 (Karim Sadiq, 1.4 ov)	2-22 (Mohammad Shahzad, 3.3 ov)
3-29 (Nowroz Mangal, 5.4 ov)	4-97 (Noor Ali, 16.4 ov)
5-97 (Asghar Stanikzai, 17.1 ov)	6-97 (Mohammad Nabi, 17.2 ov)
7-107 (Samiullah Shenwari, 18.5 ov)	8-114 (Hamid Hassan, 19.5 ov)

	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Economy	Extras
Praveen Kumar	3.0	0	14	2	4.66
Ashish Nehra	4.0	0	19	3	4.75
Zaheer Khan	3.0	0	24	1	8.00	1w
Ravindra Jadeja	4.0	1	15	1	3.75
Yuvraj Singh	1.0	0	4	0	4.00
Harbhajan Singh	4.0	0	24	0	6.00	1w
Yusuf Pathan	1.0	0	12	0	12.00	1w

India Innings		Runs	Balls	4s	6s	SR
Gautam Gambhir	c Mohammad Nabi b Dawlat Ahmadzai	4	6	0	0	66.66
Murali Vijay	c Shapoor Zadran b Hamid Hassan	48	46	2	3	104.34
Suresh Raina	lbw Samiullah Shenwari	18	13	1	1	138.46
Yuvraj Singh	not out	23	22	0	1	104.54
MS Dhoni (captain, wk)	not out	15	6	0	2	250.00
Yusuf Pathan
Ravindra Jadeja
Harbhajan Singh
Praveen Kumar
Zaheer Khan
Ashish Nehra
Extras	lb 1, w 3, nb 4	8
		116 / 3 (14.5 overs)

Fall of Wickets
1-19 (Gambhir, 2.2 ov)	2-46 (Raina, 5.3 ov)
3-101 (Vijay, 13.4 ov)

	Overs	Runs	Wickets	Economy	Extras
Dawlat Ahmadzai	2.0	21	1	10.50	1nb
Shapoor Zadran	2.0	6	0	3.00	1w
Mohammad Nabi	3.0	33	0	11.00	1nb
Samiullah Shenwari	2.0	11	1	5.50	1w
Karim Sadiq	2.0	22	0	11.00	2nb, 1w
Hamid Hassan	3.0	8	1	2.66
Nowroz Mangal	0.5	14	0	16.80

Umpires	Aleem Dar, Marais Erasmus
TV Umpire	Simon Taufel
Match Referee	Ranjan Madugalle
Reserve Umpire	Asoka De Silva

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