Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 at 12:30 pm , filed under Tests by Bowman Michael
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Master Blaster, Sachin Tendulakar on Tuesday, November 08, 2011 has reached another level in cricket by scoring 15,000 runs in the on-going test against West Indies.
On Day-3, of the first test between India vs West Indies, the home are in leading the contest with just 132 runs away from a victory.
Batting maestro, Tendulkar is the leading run getter in both Test and ODI cricket. He has scored 61 fifty and 51 hundreds in Test cricket and is just away one hundred to reach another milestone in the international Cricket.
Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid steadied Indian innings after Virender Sehwag’s dismissal. India were 138/2.
Sehwag departed after aggressive fifty. He was dismissed by skipper Darren Sammy for 55.
Indian opener Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag provided good start to India in the second innings. India were 38/0 at tea break. India still need 238 runs to win with 10 wickets remaining.
The West Indies were all out for 180 in their second innings of the first Test against India at the Ferozshah Kotla here Tuesday. India need 276 runs to win the match.
In the bowling department, Ashwin took six wickets for 47 runs in the second innings to claim a maiden five-wicket haul in his test career.
With lot’s of battling to come for India like VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni, R Ashwin, I Sharma, PP Ojha, U Yadav. India are deserved to clinch a victory in the first test at Delhi.
At the end of day-3 play, India is still 132 runs behind to win the first test against West Indies.
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