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Shane Watson (captain, Australian Masters): It was a great performance, a very dominant one. We knew about the last two games where we played well but we couldn't get over the line. That was a lot of fun, took me some time to get off the blocks but Ben Dunk and Shaun Marsh started off well. Him (Tendulkar) batting the way he does was great fun. He has got some serious firepower, you need to bowl in other areas to him and the left and right-hand coordination worked. We found a way to turn up tonight and get the job done
Ben Dunk (Player of the Match, Australian Masters): I was saying to Shane, it was great fun. Great to have the tournament rolling and have a win after playing some good cricket. We have been a very relaxed group, the business end of the tournament is coming up and we wanted to be there. It was great fun, that is the thing about this tournament and you reconnect old friendships while enjoying the game
Sachin Tendulkar (India Masters captain): Indeed, actually the way Watson and Dunk batted was magnificent. The wicket played beautifully and there bat swing and hitting was some of the best I have seen. I don't want to take credit way from them. We could have bowled better. Possibly batted first, we expected some more dew but because the dew wasn't there so the wicket got slow. It wasn't in our control. 260 was always going to be an uphill task. I enjoy playing against them. They are a dangerous side and showed today what they are capable of. Whatever happened is behind us now. We will look forward to the Raipur leg and come well prepared.
11:01 pm local time and IST: Australia Masters beat India Masters by 95 runs
India Masters: 174 all out (20 overs) Sachin Tendulkar: 64(33b) | Xavier Doherty: 5/25 (4 overs) Yusuf Pathan: 25(15b) | Dan Christian: 1/31 (4 overs)
A huge win for the Australia Masters. They put scores in excess of 200 in the first game but couldn't get wins but now have a win under their belt after posting a total in excess of 250. India Masters had no chance of chasing it and they fell very short of the mark here.
Opening the batting, Sachin Tendulkar and Naman Ojha put together 50 runs for the opening partnership. However, things fell apart for the India Masters with no one apart from Tendulkar being able to score more than 30 runs. Wickets fell in heaps and India Masters suffered a collapse as they slumped to a big defeat and took a dent in their net run rate.
Australia Masters had one player change the game for them. It was Xavier Doherty who picked up a five wicket haul. He was aided by the other bowlers in the line up as well, who chipped in with a wicket each and ensured that the India Masters never got ahead of the humungous required run rate needed by them to chase the total down.
20
overs
174/10score
1
1
1
1
1
w
runs
Rahul Sharma*
18(16)
Abhimanyu Mithun
9(10)
Bryce McGain
1/16
19.6 Bryce McGain to Rahul Sharma, WICKET! Australia Masters win by 95 runs. A flighted fuller-length delivery around the middle stump channel, Rahul Sharma goes for the slog sweep and ends up clofting it from the inside half of the bat, straight down the throat of the deep midwicket fielder who doesn't make a mistake.
19.5 Bryce McGain to Abhimanyu Mithun, flatter on a fuller-length a shade outside off, Mithun dabs it away towards the short third man region and takes a single.
19.4 Bryce McGain to Rahul Sharma, Rahul makes some room, comes down the track and drills this flighted fuller one around middle, down towards the long-off region for a single.
19.3 Bryce McGain to Abhimanyu Mithun, slowish on a fuller-length around middle, defended from the inner half of the bat towards the square leg region and takes a single.
19.2 Bryce McGain to Rahul Sharma, flighted on a fuller-length around off, a defensive push towards the short cover fielder and rolls the strike over.
19.1 Bryce McGgain to Abhimanyu Mithun, flatter on a good-length around middle, punched off the backfoot towards the long-on region for a single.
The last six deliveries remain. What will Australia Masters do here? Have a batter roll their arms over or bowl a proper bowler to end it? We have Bryce McGain [1-0-11-0] to end things there
19
overs
169/9score
4
1
1
0
0
0
runs
Rahul Sharma*
16(13)
Abhimanyu Mithun
6(7)
Nathan Reardon
1/15
18.6 Nathan Reardon to Rahul Sharma, slower on a good-length a shade outside off, a defensive push towards the cover fielder.
18.5 Nathan Reardon to Rahul Sharma, pace-on delivery angling into Rahul, around the leg stump, Rahul swings across the line and gets beate, it was perilously close to the leg stump.
18.4 Nathan Reardon to Rahul Sharma, on a fuller-length a shade outside off, driven straight to the cover fielder.
18.3 Nathan Reardon to Abhimanyu Mithun, on a good-length around middle, uses his wrists to flick that towards the deep midwicket region for a single.
18.2 Nathan Reardon to Abhimanyu Mithun, on a good-length a shade outside off, swung across the line from the inside half of the bat down towards the long-on region for a single.
18.1 Nathan Reardon to Rahul Sharma, FOUR! A slower good-length delivery a shade outside off, swung across the line by Rahul, gets it in the gap and finds the deep square leg boundary.
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Rahul Sharma
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