With a mighty batting line-up high on confidence, on a track flatter than an LED screen the match being televised on, and against an attack of which four bowlers had played just 35 ODIs among them, the question was if the Men in Blue could touch 400.
No, they didn’t. They only made 399 for five. How disappointing.
That was still 10 runs more than they made, at the beginning of the year, against New Zealand on this ground, the Holkar Cricket Stadium. It proved more than enough to win the second ODI before a full house on Sunday, by 99 runs (DLS), and thus the series with a game to spare.
