T20 World Cup 2014 Qualifiers Sachin 199th Test Match at a Glance
This post was created by  SKYSHOT  on  06 Nov 2013  in  Cricket.  

Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Toss: West Indies, and decided to bat first.

Umpires: RA Kettleborough and NJ Llong

New players: Mohammed Shami, RG Sharma, SS Cottrell


First day for India, went quite well, thanks to the bowling that was done by the bowling side. West indies, won the toss and elected to bat first. But West Indies the start was not good and they lost their first wicket (Gayle) at just 30 runs. And then Indian bowling side took wickets on the regular basis also. The new player Mohammed Shami was really promising and he took 4 wickets.


MN Samuels was the star performer from the West Indies side. He scored 65 runs and helped the Indies side to reach a total of 234 runs. At the day end, India was at 37 runs with no loss of wickets. So as far as performance of the Indian side, is concerned, they are doing quite good and now it is turn of the Indian batting side to show some good performance, let see how they do it, because the pitch is favoring the bowling side, especially the spin bowlers.


On the second day, India will look towards, making a good score. 400+ score will be good for the India. Then only the result of the match will come.