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West Indies  convincingly beat India in the Super 8 match   played at Lords today. The match started with Mahinder singh Dhoni winning the toss and choosing to bat. For him though, only disappointment was available as the wickets fallen continuously. Even M S Dhoni cannot play his usual knock and was sent to pavilion soon.To admit, West Indies bowled Superbly.

India’s Yuvraj and Yusuf Pathan came to party by contributing a crucial partnership between them. Yuvraj stole the show by smashing 67 of 43 balls and Yusuf  hit 31 of 23 balls. India managed to score 153 for 7  in their 20 overs. Not defendable score, yet manageable to play for.The star of West Indies bowling was Bravo who took 4 wickets for 38 runs.

The second innings started with an early blow for West Indies losing Fletcher for a duck. Dhoni brought spinners early in the play and the run rate was getting higher with the each ball the spinners bowl. Pressure was mounting and can be seen in Chris Gayle face. He tried to hit a 6 but was caught out by Zaheer for the ball of  Yusuf pathan.

At this stage, West Indies was thought to be out of the game until Bravo came and played a Bravo innings. He smashed each and every bowler and score 66 runs for 36 balls. Helping him at the other end was none other than West Indies former captain Chanderpaul who played a crucial knock . West Indies beat India with 7 wickets in hand  at  18.3 overs.  Bravo was declared Man of the Match award for his allrounder performance.

Netherlands win a stunning Match with England by the margin of 4 wickets. This was the World T20 opener in England homeground  Lords.

Earlier, Netherlands won the toss and decided to field first. It seemed a bad decision earlier of the play where England was scoring over 9 run each over. Its all thanks to their star batsman Ravi Bopara who scored a magnificient 46 runs and Luke Wright played a rocking knock of 71 runs for 49 balls. But they cannot convert it to the big score and managed a par level of 162 for 5.

Well that was defendable though. England as the experienced team over Netherland was confident  to defend it. Netherlands doesnt tour or play cricket as much as England do. As said by the Cricket Commentators, T20 can be any team game. This was the exact thing happened today in the ICC world T20 Opener.

Tom  de  Grooth of Netherland played a brillant knock of 49 runs of 30 balls. And also got the contribution from all players defeating England  by 4 wickets. He was rewarded the Man of the Match for his knock.

Now the worst part of  match is England’s fielding. England players showed a very poor show in fielding, missing almost 7 runs out. And thanks to the overthrow made by the bowler Broad in the last ball of  the over, Netherland ran 2 runs to make it in the Winner side. Each over they missed couple of run outs and granted runs. It  seemed as though not  one player can attempt to throw at stumps properly. Bopara missed a very simple basic run out.  Broad have missed 5 times of his own bowling.

Here’s the decider now, if  England want to stay alive in the tournament they have to beat  Pakistan by very big margin on June 7.

Finally, as England supporter i have been led down as a fan. Com’on man show them who we are. Fight like Lions next match and win it for  us.