Today we plan to go to the cricket ground at Manchester to
watch the match suspended yesterday, to be continued today. We took our car to
Manchester as we were to be interviewed by BBC for their programme BBC
Breakfast live. Further, we had got information about one place where we can
park car very near to the stadium.
We were invited by BBC Studio for an interview in their Studio.
We had to reach there by 7:45 am. They have a very popular programme named BBC
Breakfast where they invite some guests regularly. They had picked us for that
today’s programme. They took the photos of our car first. Then we went to the
Studio upstairs. The interview was done at 8:50 am. The interview was live and lasted
about 5 minutes.
This is one programme which has very good following. This
brought us to the celebrity status, at least for a day. When we were walking to
the stadium after parking the car, one British lady asked whether we are the
same family who came on TV some time back. There was another family going to
the stadium, they took photos with us. In the stadium also many persons
recognised us, thanks to BBC Breakfast live programme where we appeared in the
morning. ICC has also featured our interview on their front page on site.
The match started on time. India could restrict New Zealand
to 239 for 8. It looked to be a good score to chase. India started
disastrously. They lost three wickets with only 5 runs on board. Both the
openers and Kohli scored one run each and the stadium turned in to complete
silence. Dinesh Karthik survived for some time, but in 10 overs India were 4-24
when Karthik was out. Rishabh Pant took some pains to stay at the wicket. Henry
and Boult were in splendid form and they put India almost out of contention in
the match. Pant was out when India’s score was 71. Dhoni came to join Hardik
Pandya. Dhoni tried to control the proceedings with his hall mark style of
batting. Hardik Pandya was out when the score was 92. It looked as if it is end
of the innings.
Then arrived Jadeja on the crease. He played aggressively.
Jadeja was hitting fours and sixes and at the other end, Dhoni was giving
support to Jadeja. They took the score to 208 at the end of 47.5 overs. Jadeja
scored 77 runs in 59 balls. Still India required 32 runs in 13 balls. Dhoni
left after scoring 50 runs in 72 balls. After Dhoni left, all the hopes of
Indian victory vanished and India lost the match scoring 221 all out in 49.3
overs.
It was very good match. It had all the qualities of good
ODI match. The ball was doing its bit and Williamson, Taylor and Jadeja could get
big scores. There were ups and downs in both the innings. But at the end, India
lost the match and they have to bow out of the tournament.
We returned to the Hotel late in the evening. Tomorrow we plan
to go to Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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