Leg-spinner Rahul Sharma bagged a hat-trick as India Masters convincingly beat South Africa Masters by eight wickets in Vadodara on Saturday to proceed their profitable run within the Worldwide Masters League.
After India Masters skipper Sachin Tendulkar received the toss and elected to bowl, his spinners took full benefit of the circumstances to limit a powerful South Africa Masters line-up to a meagre 85 in lower than 14 overs.
Defending a small complete, South Africa Masters’ captain Kallis selected to open the bowling together with his spinners. The transfer paid off as off-spinner Thandi Tshabalala dismissed Tendulkar with a reasonably easy caught and bowled probability to silence the gang.
After Tendulkar’s departure, fellow opener Ambati Rayudu, took cost of the chase within the firm of Irfan Pathan (12), who was promoted up the order to take the spinners to job.
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The ploy labored for some time with Pathan taking part in a few sweetly-timed boundaries earlier than an tried hoick off leg-spinner Eddie Leie noticed him taking the lengthy route again to the dressing room.
With India in a spot of trouble at 27 for two contained in the powerplay, Pawan Negi was elevated to No.4, and he confirmed his batting prowess with a few boundaries and a six as he mixed with Rayudu for an unbeaten 62-run stand to take India over the road with 9 overs to spare.
Rayudu remained unbeaten on a 34-ball 41 with the right-hander discovering the fence on seven events.
Earlier, Rahul accounted for the wickets of Hashim Amla (9), Kallis and Jacques Rudolph off the primary three balls of his second over to clinch a hat-trick after the guests had a blistering 35-run begin.
Negi trapped Farhaan Behardien earlier than packing again the one South African batter to supply some resistance — Davids, who top-scored for the facet with a 28-ball 38.
Yuvraj Singh picked up the wickets of Vernon Philander and Garnett Kruger for golden geese off successive balls to additional dent the customer.
Yuvraj castled a well-set Dane Vilas for his third wicket of the competition. The wicketkeeper-batter, who caught a boundary off the earlier supply, perished whereas trying one other glory shot. Vilas’s 15-ball 21, was the one different double digit rating from the vacationer.
Seam-bowling all-rounder Stuart Binny then accomplished the formalities in his solely over of the day, claiming the wickets of Makhaya Ntini and Eddie Leie.
Temporary Scores:
South Africa Masters 85 (Henry Davids 38, Dane Vilas 21; Rahul Sharma 3/18, Yuvraj Singh 3/12, Pawan Negi 2/21, Stuart Binny 2/1) misplaced to India Masters 89/2 (Ambati Rayudu 41 not out, Pawan Negi 21 not out) by 8 wickets