Sachin 146, Ganguly 111, Viru 55 HIGHLIGHTS vs Kenya 2001 | Cricket Classics - India won by 186 runs
Channel: Indernagar Cricket Council
Date: 2021-03-01

Result - India won by 186 runs
Man of the Match - Sachin Tendulkar

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INDIA 351/3 (50 overs)

Sachin Tendulkar 146 (132), Sourav Ganguly 111 (124)
Thomas Odoyo 3/67 (10), Collins Obuya 0/52 (10)

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KENYA 165/5 (50 overs)

Kennedy Otieno 40 (97), Hitesh Modi 31* (51)
Yuvraj Singh 2/35 (10), Harbhajan Singh 1/14 (7)

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A record-shattering performance from Ganguly and Tendulkar helped India forget their humiliation at Port Elizabeth. In the 16th over, they passed 100 together for the 16th time as an opening pair, breaking Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes's record; in the 35th, they raised 200. They had overtaken the first-wicket record in one-day internationals - their own 252 against Sri Lanka in 1997-98 - to reach 258 when Ganguly fired yet another disdainful drive, this time down the throat of long-on. 

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His 18th one-day international hundred had carried him past 7,000 runs. Tendulkar seemed to have the first double-century at this level within reach; instead, two overs later, he hit a full toss tamely to mid-wicket. It brought no respite: Sehwag hammered an unbeaten 55 off just 23 balls, including 20 from Martin Suji's last four deliveries. Only the newly arrived Laxman missed out as Kenya conceded 350 for the second time in three days. With the result beyond doubt, Kenya seemed content to bat out their 50 overs against uninspired bowling. Modi, called up from his holiday to replace Angara, batted competently but could not avert India's biggest one-day victory.

Last Wednesday, India lost to Kenya, embarrassed themselves, and persuaded officialdom to turn a beady eye in their direction. This Wednesday, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly fashioned a record limited-overs opening stand as India beat the same opponents by a yawning margin of 186 runs.

You would not say, too, that the distance between the two sides flattered India. On the day, they were so much better than Kenya that they could have declared after 30 overs and still won.

So India will meet South Africa in the final on Friday at Kingsmead. Apart from anything else, Wednesday's result will bring sighs of relief to any number of advertisers in Durban who have based their campaigns on a South Africa-India final.

The afternoon, and the match really, belonged to the Indian openers, who eclipsed their own one-day first wicket record of 252 by making 258, before Ganguly finally got himself out for 111. There was a moment, a very brief one, mind, when Kenya almost got themselves into the match. It came in the seventh over, when Tendulkar had 12, and Martin Suji found the inside edge. The ball flew over the off bail and scuttled for four; that, pretty much, was that.

Thereafter, it was carnage. Suji was smashed out of attack with 41 coming off his first five overs, the spinners were ineffective, and India thundered on and on. Tendulkar eventually went for 146 off 132 balls, his 31st one-day century, and one during which he only lifted the ball off the ground when he meant to.

Even when the opening pair had gone, Kenya's misery was not yet complete. Thomas Odoyo had only eight runs taken off his first five overs. No fewer than 59 came off his last five, and Suji's final over, the last of the innings, went for 26, as a red mist descended over Virender Sehwag.

Sehwag has sometimes been unkindly referred to as a poor man's Tendulkar, but he is quite capable of building his reputation, a point he underlined with 55 off just 23 balls at the death.

India's 351 for three was inevitably well beyond the scope of Kenya, and the East Africans made no real attempt to chase it. Kennedy Otieno fiddled around until the 30th over before finally getting himself out for 40, stumped by stand-in wicketkeeper Rahul Dravid, off Yuvraj Singh (a combination that was to repeat the trick to get rid off Odoyo) and that was about the sum of it.

Hitesh Modi, dragged off the beach earlier in the week when Kenya found themselves running out of players, made 31 not out towards the death, but the runs came when they had very little meaning.

India, then, atoned for their feebleness last week, but in doing so they also emphasised the peculiarity of that dramatic upset. All things being equal, though, the finalists will be evenly enough matched to make for a real contest at Kingsmead.

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