Raina fashions roaring seven-wicket win

Karachi: Suresh Raina's midas touch in the Asia Cup continued, as a breathtaking 116 not out by the southpaw saw India chase down a 284-run target with ease.Raina scored an unbeaten 116 as India cantered home against Bangladesh in 43.2 overs with seven wickets in hand. Gautam Gambhir also came up with a masterful 90 to lead the charge in the run-chase in the first Super Four clash.Earlier, riding on a 96-ball blitzkrieg of 115 by Alok Kapali, Bangladesh amassed 283-6.
Gambhir and Raina powered India's third straight win in the tournament. Gambhir perished 10 short of what would have been a well-deserved hundred but Raina, along with Yuvraj, took the team home.Yuvraj pounded some hefty blows, including two towering sixes during his unbeaten 36, but the real heroes of the game were Gambhir and Raina, who made Bangladesh pay heavily for missed chances as they put up a majestic 139-run stand.Raina, after scores of 101 (against Hong Kong) and 84 against (Pakistan) earlier this week, continued his dream run in the Asia Cup as he notched up the second century of his career. The southpaw smashed a six and then a four off Abdur Razzak to reach his ton in 93 balls. He clobbered 11 fours and three sixes during his 107-ball innings.

Asia-Cup Cricket 2008: India innings vs Pakistan

Sehwag and Raina seal thumping win

A mighty performance from India's batsmen, led by Virender Sehwag and Suresh Raina, made easy work of Pakistan's competitive target of 300 and gave India two points to take into the next round. The pair tore into Pakistan's depleted and wayward bowling attack - scoring at more than eight an over during their second-wicket partnership of 198 - as India reached the target with six wickets and 47 balls to spare, their quickest chase while facing a target of 300.

Sehwag special takes India home by six wickets

Karachi: Virender Sehwag came to the party at the National Stadium here, scoring the fastest One-day International century against Pakistan by any batsman, as India walked away with a surprisingly easy six-wicket victory in their crucial Group B Clash.Set 300 to win, India eased to their target with the loss of four wickets in just 42.1 overs.Sehwag scored his century off just 80 balls, with the help of ten boundaries and five sixes and was involved in a big standwith Suresh Raina that settled it in India's favour.Sehwag and Raina put on 198 runs after India lost Gautam Gambhir early to a blinder taken by Misbah-ul-Haq at gully. Raina was also extremely aggressive and the duo were always on the ball with the run-rate.
Raina faced 69 balls as he blasted ten fours and three sixes in his innings of 84, and looked all set to get his second consecutive century before he carved one straight down Fawad Alam's throat off Rao Ifthikhar Anjum.
Sehwag, who knocked up his ninth One-day hundred, also departed soon after offering a skier to Younis Khan, before Yuvraj Singh and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni continued India's surge towards the formidable target with relative ease.

ASIA CUP CRICKET 2008 India Vs Hong Kong

India canter to 256-run win in one-sided affair

Karachi: Even before the start of the match the result was known to one and all. And when both Suresh Raina and India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored centuries to pile up 374–4 against a hapless Hong Kong, the tame battle was just waiting to get
over and the job was successfully finished sooner than later by Piyush Chawla, who claimed 4-23 to give India a 256-run victory against the minnows in their Asia Cup tie here on Wednesday.
it was Virender Sehwag who laid a solid platform in the beginning and from there Raina and Dhoni continued the good work to score their respective centuries as well.
A 127-run stand between the openers - Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir -- and then another huge fourth-wicket partnership of 166 between Dhoni and Raina left Hong Kong looking for cover.

Indian cricket team fielding at thier best

yuvraj 6 sixes off 6 balls

Sehwag the best

Hightlights - India Vs Pakistan - India Innings - Kitply cup

India crush Pakistan by huge 140-run margin

Dhaka: Praveen Kumar ran through the top-order as Paksitan, chasing a near-impossible 331 for a win, surrendered virtually without a fight to be dismissed for 190 in the tri-series contest at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium here, handing India a huge 140-run win.
Praveen returned figure of 4-53 as the top four batsmen fell to him, and Pakistan were virtually out of the contest by the end of the fifth over when they batted.
Pakistan lost three wickets with next to nothing on the scoreboard, and were never in the game after that. Praveen Kumar removed Salman Butt, Younis Khan and Mohd Yousuf in rapid succession, and then Kamran Akmal also fell to him after using the long handle for a while.
Once Misbah-ul-Haq also departed, edging Ishant Sharma to skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the match was effectively over, as the slower bowlers led by Piyush Chawla (4-40) then wrapped up the rest of the batting.Skipper Shoaib Malik scored a half-century, but was never convincing.
Earlier, Virender Sehwag (89) and Gautam Gambhir (62) put up 155 runs for the opening wicket as India finished at 330-8.Yuvraj Singh also contributed 55 while Dhoni and Suresh Raina chipped in to add to the total, as the Paksitanis came up with one of their worst bowling performances in the recent years.
Umar Gul picked up three wickets but went for 61 runs, while the rest of the bowling ranged between the unimaginative and the pathetic. Some attacking batting by the Indians, combined with some pathetic bowling and equally ridiculous captaincy by Malik saw
India rattle up a potentially match-winning 330-8 in their tri-series game after Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat.