India win a thriller by defeating West Indies by 20 runs

India survived a mighty scare as West Indies succumbed by just 20 run short of victory. Both Ramnaresh Sarawan and Chanderpaul led West Indies close to the target but eventually 340 was a bit too much to ask for West Indies who did not get the start from Chris Gayle as he generally is known for.

Yuvraj Singh (131 of 102 balls) scored a brilliant century to revive a dropping Indian batting order, M S Dhoni (41) played second fiddle when Yuvraj was going great guns. Yusuf Pathan scored a quickfire 40 along with Harbhajan Singh (21 of 13 balls) to take India to 339/6 in the stipulated 50 overs.

Chris Gayle will have to fire to overcome this huge target to restrict India to go 1 / 0 up in the series.

Earlier in the inning, a much needed partnership of Dinesh Karthik and Yuvraj Singh gave some respite to the Indian scoreboard. A partnership of 135 after two quick wickets falling in a span of a few minutes saw India in trouble.

Gautam Gambhir couldnt handle the short pitched delivery by Taylor and was caught out as he mistimed his hook shot. Rohit Sharma followed Gambhir's footstep and showed the weakness against the short pitched bouncers. India struggled early by losing it's top order batsman, someone had to build on from there.. and in came Yuvraj Sing. He started slow and cautiously playing his shorts, his innings had some sort of maturity and demonstrated his power towards the end of his innings.

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