da fazobetai： England turned an impending draw into a 238-run victory by routing CCI President’s XI for 75
The Bulletin by George Binoy20-Feb-2006
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How they were out
Simon Jones triggered the collapse taking two wickets in his opening spell © Getty Images
England’s bowlers, Simon Jones in particular, cranked up the pace andspectacularly turned an impending draw into a 238-run victory by routingCCI President’s XI in only 26.2 overs on the final day at the BrabourneStadium in Mumbai. Their effort came after Marcus Trescothick and IanBlackwell notched up fifties to boost England’s second-innings score to265.After playing most of the game with a practice-match attitude, Englandwere confident that 36 overs were enough to wrap up a win and bowled withdefinite intent. Jones, who in the first innings bowled with a MarkEalham-esque run up and pace, shared the new ball with Matthew Hoggard,bowled at a much faster clip and extracted appreciable bounce. He struckin his first over, trapping Robin Uthappa on the crease and snared VinitIndulkar with one that rose, to finish with 2 for 9 from five overs.Andrew Flintoff induced an edge off Sahil Kukreja’s half-hearted prod andat one stage bowled with four slips and two gullies. Hiken Shah took threeboundaries off Liam Plunkett before he played down the wrong line and losthis off stump.The President’s XI folded without a fight, losing their lastfive wickets for eight runs. They were no match for Stephen Harmison’ssteep bounce. Both Wilkin Mota and Kshemal Waingankar edged deliveriesthat got big on them from just short off a length to slip to 71 for 8.Monty Panesar and Ian Blackwell chipped in with two wickets apiece asEngland completed a very satisfactory victory after getting all thebatting practice they were looking for.The early-morning atmosphere was relaxed and the intensity was almost zeroas the batsmen approached the game with little more purpose than a netsession. Having missed the first innings due to illness, MarcusTrescothick made his recovery count. He had signed off in style on thesecond day, carting Aniket Redkar for four consecutive fours off the finalover, and he carried on in the same vein on the third day, lookingcompletely at ease against the fast bowlers. He pulled Abid Nabi forconsecutive fours to get going and followed up with crisp back-foot punches off Waingankar.On 44, he had a stroke of luck when Vinayak Samant dropped an edge offWaingankar but Trescothick didn’t let it faze him. He had a couple ofuncertain moments against Hitshu Bachani – surviving a bat-pad appeal andmissing a couple of sweeps – but replied with authority by lofting himover long-on for six and following up with a sweep for the same result.Blackwell followed up his four-wicket haul on the second day with ahalf-century and if he didn’t have a foot in the Test eleven before, hecertainly has one now. Blackwell treated Swapnil Hazare with disdain,slapping him to the point and midwicket fence and not bothering withanything wide. Hazare had a lot of aggression in his body language but waswoefully short of it in his bowling and was soon taken off. Blackwellswept the spinners powerfully to and over the midwicket boundary andshowed that he could hit straight as well with three hoicks that cleared theropes comfortably. But he tried one too many and holed out to long-on offHitshu Bachani on 59.Apart from Trescothick, Blackwell and Geraint Jones, who scored 30, none of the others got going. Kevin Pietersen, Michael Vaughan and Flintoff were all out to soft dismissals. Jones was stumped trying to charge down the track to Redkar in the first over after lunch and Trescothick holed out soon after. Blackwell and Plunkett, who made 26, posted 65 runs forthe ninth wicket and pushed the score to 265.How they were outCCI President’s XI
Robin Uthappa lbw Simon Jones 4 (6 for 1)
Vinit Indulkar c Andrew Flintoff b Simon Jones 0 (6 for 2)Sahil Kukreja c Geraint Jones b Andrew Flintoff 12 (35 for3)
Hiken Shah b Liam Plunkett 21 (38 for 4)Hrishikesh Shende c Marcus Trescothick b Monty Panesar 8 (59 for5)
Wilkin Mota c Geraint Jones b Stephen Harmison 17 (67 for 6)
Vinayak Samanth c Shaun Udal b Monty Panesar 6 (71 for 7)
Kshemal Waingankar c Geraint Jones b Stephen Harmison 0 (71 for8)
Abid Nabi c Marcus Trescothick b Ian Blackwell 0 (75 for 9)
Swapnil Hazare c Shaun Udal b Ian Blackwell 0 (75)
England
Kevin Pietersen run out Munish Ansari 10 (36 for 2)
Michael Vaughan c Vinit Indulkar b Kshemal Waingankar 13 (67 for3)
Andrew Flintoff c Samant b Munish Ansari 5 (79 for 4)
Geraint Jones st Vinayak Samant b Aniket Redkar 30 (147 for 5)
Marcus Trescothick c Hitshu Bachani b Aniket Redkar 88 (162 for 6)
Ian Bell c Robin Uthappa b Nilesh Kulkarni 15 (194 for 7)
Shaun Udal lbw Aniket Redkar 0 (199 for 8)
Ian Blackwell c Wilkin Mota b Hitshu Bachani 59 (264 for 9)
Liam Plunkett c Wilkin Mota b Hitshu Bachani 26 (265)