England made a thrilling tie with India in their Group B clash of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 in Bangalore on Sunday. Chasing India’s enormous total of 338 off 49.5 overs, England notched up 338 for the loss of eight wickets in the fixed 50 overs. Andrew Strauss of England fractured a marvelous 158 off 145 balls together with 18 boundaries and a over boundary while Ian Bell hit 69 off 74 balls in the middle of four fors and a six.
Zaheer Khan grabbed three wickets at the cost of 64 runs while Munaf Patel and Piyush Chawla bagged a pair of wickets each for 70 and 71 runs correspondingly. Left-handers Yuvraj Singh (58) and Gautam Gambhir made half-centuries, while opener Virender Sehwag contributed 35 and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni inclined in with 31.
Dhoni won the toss and chosen to bat first, and Tendulkar and Sehwag put on 46 for the first wicket in 7.5 overs. Sehwag fell when he tried to guide a ball from pace bowler Tim Bresnan, that was outside the off-stump, through the empty slips only to find wicket-keeper Matt Prior dived to his right and get a good one-handed catch.
Sehwag, who had starred in India's win over Bangladesh with a luminous 175 in the tournament opener at Mirpur on February 19, scored 35 today off 26 balls with the help of six fours.
Tendular, quite hesitant in the early stages and unable to find gaps in the tight England field, slowly came into his own and brought up the 50 of the innings with a brilliant flick to the hurdle front of square and then followed it up with an even more beautiful shot, this time to backward of square.
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