India Vs England ODI, Broad rocks India in Indore, claims three wickets

by Sanjay Jha | November 16, 2008 at 08:28 pm

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The Monday morning had brought in good news for the Indian Cricket fans as skipper MS Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first against England in the second ODI. In-form southpaw Yuvraj Singh was declared fit for play and the home team went in with no change in the winning combination. But Indians were tottering after losing early wickets.

Trailing in the series England pace bowler Stuart Broad attacked Indian side severly and took his third wicket in the form of Rohit Sharma. The batsman lobbed an easy catch into the hands of Owais Shah at backward square leg after scoring just three runs. England pacer Stuart Broad took three wickets in four overs to reduce India to 30/3 in 8 overs in the second ODI at Indore.

Broad took his third wicket when he surprised Rohit Sharma (3) by a short delivery who tried to pull it from outside off but edged high up in the air for Owais Shah to take the catch at square leg.

India got off to a bad start as Broad took two wickets in two overs to reduce the hosts to 16/2 in 4 overs.

Broad got the second Indian wicket when he had Suresh Raina (4) caught at mid-wicket by Samit Patel. Raina failed to read the slower ball and went into the shot early and edged it to Patel.

In the previous over, Virender Sehwag (1) tried to cut a Broad delivery but that was too close to his body and he ended up edging it onto his stumps much to the delight of the visitors.

Already in the first over there were signs that it is a dual paced pitch and the ball is not coming on to the bat even though the curator said that it is a 300 plus wicket.