India beat Netherlands to top Group B, World cup 2011 Update

India continued their dominance in this year's World Cup and are well on their to qualify for the quarterfinals after beating Netherlands by 5 wickets at Feroz Shah Kotla. But the low scoring contest was anything but a one sided affair. The Dutch made a good start after winning the toss and opting to bat first. Their openers Eric Szwarczynski and Wesley Barresi put together a 56 run partnership before it was broken in the 17th over when Szwarczynski was castled by Piyush Chawla. A few overs later, Yuvraj Singh, who was brilliant against Ireland in their last match, claimed his first wicket of the day when he dismissed Barresi, LBW. Barresi felt he was unfairly judged and sought a third opinion through a review but the third umpire agreed with umpire Davis on the field. Yuvraj's second victim was the dangerous Ryan ten Doeschate who attempted to attack a slow one only to heave it to long off into the hands of Zaheer Khan. At 99-3, Netherlands were in all sorts of trouble and things got worse when they lost two more wickets in the succeeding over. Tom Cooper, the set batsman, was caught behind when he edged a fuller delivery from Ashish Nehra. New man Bas Zuiderent was the next to depart after being struck square on the pads by a reverse swinging delivery from Zaheer. It took another referral to finally send him back to the pavilion and with half their batters gone, the Dutch needed some magic to post a competitive total. This magic came from Peter Borren who together with Mudassar Bukhari helped their side get close to the 200 run mark. But a superb last spell from Zaheer saw him take out both the batsmen to conclude the Dutch innings in the forty-seventh over, 11 runs short of 200. In response, openers Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag gave India a brisk start and it looked like the game would be over sooner than expected. But Netherlands made a major breakthrough in the eighth over when Sehwag (39) was caught by Kervezee at cover, off Pieter Seelaar. Seelaar then went on to dismiss Tendulkar (27) and new man Yusuf Pathan (11) in the same over to cause a mild panic in the Indian camp. And when Kohli (12) departed after being clean bowled by Borren in the 15th over, Netherlands could see a glimmer of hope. But then Gambhir and Yuvraj dug in and put together 40 runS before the former was castled by Bukhari in the 24th over. This brought the Indian skipper in the middle who partnered with Yuvraj to take India through with 81 balls to spare. And while doing so, Yuvraj hit another well calculated half century which won him another 'Man of the Match' honour. Brief Scores: India 191-5 (Yuvraj 51, Sehwag 39; Seelaar 3-53) beat Netherlands 189 all-out in 46.4 overs (Borren 38, Cooper 29; Zaheer 3-20) by 5 wickets with 81 balls remaining. -------------- Information Provided by SEO Company Ahmedabad ----- Entrance Exams Coaching for CEED, NID, NATA, NIFT, Photography Classes