Gambhir stars in Indian victory

Published August 17, 2007

GLASGOW, Aug 16: India sealed a comfortable seven-wicket win with 37 balls left in the one-off One-day International against Scotland here on Thursday. Chasing a revised 209 from 46 overs, they reached 100-0 in 20 overs as Robin Uthappa hit a huge six in a fluent 55.

Gautam Gambhir shared 61 in eight overs with Yuvraj Singh and remained unbeaten on 84, his fourth one-day half century.

Gavin Hamilton and Neil McCallum had rescued the Scots with a stand of 82 and Craig Wright's innovative 37 from 34 balls took them to a useful 203-9.

Scoreboard

SCOTLAND:

D.F. Watts c Dhoni b R.P. Singh 6

N.S. Poonia lbw b Agarkar 1

R.R. Watson c Chawla b Patel 24

R.M. Haq c Chawla b R.P. Singh 11

G.M. Hamilton b Agarkar 44

N.F.I. McCallum c Dhoni b Chawla 41

C.J.O. Smith lbw b Chawla 4

C.M. Wright run out 37

J.A.R. Blain c Chawla b Patel 4

P.J.C. Hoffman not out 5

J.D. Nel not out 0

EXTRAS (B-2, LB-2, W-20, NB-2) 26

TOTAL (for nine wkts, 46 overs) 203

FALL OF WKTS: 1-9, 2-22, 3-49, 4-49, 5-131, 6-146, 7-178, 8-198, 9-199.

BOWLING: Agarkar 9-0-54-2 (5w); R.P. Singh 9-0-26-2 (5w); Patel 9-0-36-2 (2nb, 3w); Chawla 10-0-42-2; Powar 9-0-41-0 (2w).

INDIA:

R.V. Uthappa b Wright 55

G. Gambhir not out 85

K.D. Karthik c McCallum b Haq 14

Yuvraj Singh b Blain 38

R. Dravid not out 10

EXTRAS (LB-2, W-8) 10

TOTAL (for three wkts, 39.5 overs) 212

FALL OF WKTS: 1-104, 2-137, 3-198.

DID NOT BAT: M.S. Dhoni, Piyush Chawla, A.B. Agarkar, R.R. Powar, M.M. Patel, R.P. Singh.

BOWLING: Hoffman 9-0-43-0 (2w); Blain 8.5-2-41-1; Nel 6-0-48-0 (4w); Wright 10-1-46-1 (1w); Haq 6-0-32-1.

RESULT: India won by seven wickets (target revised to 209 in 46 overs).

UMPIRES: I.J. Gould (England) and I.L. Howell (South Africa).

MATCH REFEREE: R.S. Madugalle (Sri Lanka).

MAN-OF-THE-MATCH: Gautam Gambhir.—Agencies

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