WEEKLY BULLETIN: 20 FEBRUARY 2015
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HIGH-FLYING INDIA CRUISES TO VICTORY<br />
The Adelaide Oval, packed and vibrant as it savoured cricket’s most colourful rivalry, was<br />
a theatre of dreams on a memorable Sunday. India v Pakistan on any cricket field is<br />
guaranteed to be an unmissable event. When it is on a stage as grand as the ICC Cricket<br />
World Cup, in front of 41,587 passionate fans, it makes for the kind of spectacle that few<br />
other sporting showdowns can rival. India, the defending champion, came into Sunday’s<br />
(February 15) game short on form. It hadn’t won any competitive game in Australia for<br />
nearly three months, including a four-Test series and a tri-series that also included England.<br />
Pakistan carried momentum and ‘feel-good’ into this game, having put it past Bangladesh<br />
and then England, if only in the warm-up games. This was to have been Pakistan’s best<br />
chance to arrest a five-match losing streak to India in ICC Cricket World Cups. However,<br />
an energised Indian team ensured a sixth World Cup win over its neighbour. Mahendra<br />
Singh Dhoni roused themselves into a thrilling display. Virat Kohli’s 22nd One-day<br />
International century, which split entertaining half-centuries from Shikhar Dhawan and<br />
Suresh Raina, set up India’s impressive 300 for 7. The bowlers then stepped up, impressing<br />
with not just their intent but also their execution, they joined hands in a rip-roaring<br />
collective exhibition to bowl Pakistan out for 224. Victory on the night by a massive 76<br />
runs.<br />
BANGLADESH SPOILS WORLD CUP DEBUT FOR<br />
AFGHANISTAN<br />
When Bangladesh slumped to 119 for 4 in the 30th over, Afghanistan was in clover on its<br />
World Cup debut. But superb half-centuries from two former captains, Mushfiqur Rahim<br />
and Shakib Al Hasan, led Bangladesh to 267 all out, a total that proved far beyond the<br />
ambit of the new boys, who started disastrously with the bat and never recovered. Mashrafe<br />
Mortaza, the captain who had been one of the heroes of the victory over India at the <strong>20</strong>07<br />
World Cup, finished with 3 for <strong>20</strong> as Bangladesh started its campaign with a 105-run<br />
triumph in Canberra on Wednesday (February 18). See http://www.icccricket.com/cricket-world-cup/news/all-news
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