INDIA ACHIEVE AN EPIC WIN IN CHENNAI

India emerged as winners in the 1st test between India and England that took place in chennai.Though England gave a good fight but they were never close to defeating india once Sehwag played a cracker of inings yesterday to setup the chase for India which was chasing a mamoth total of 387 and requiring 256 runs of the last day.A day by day analysis of this test match is given below.

DAY 1:- Well England were off to a solid start after they won the toss and elected to bat.
They scored 118 runs for their 1st wicket after Alister cook fell for a well made
52.Later Andrew Strauss went to record his 13th century in test cricket.But
India picked up some wickets towards the end of the day and made scoreboard
read as 229-5.
DAY 2:-India started the day with Flintoff's wicket but Matt prior scored a gritty 50 and
took England's 1st inings total to 316.India started their 1st inings very badly and
lost wickets at regular interval and finished the day at 156/6 with Dhoni and Bhaji
still at the crease.
DAY 3:-Dhoni scored a fluent 50 and took India's score to 241.Hence India conceded a
lead of 75 runs.England started their 2nd inings well again and extended the lead
to around 207 runs.
DAY 4:-Andrew Strauss scored his 14th century and Paul Collingwood joined the party
by scoring a century as well.Apart from these two no England batsmen could put
a good score and so England set India a daunting 387 for target.Then came the
inings of the match from Sehwag who scored a blistering 83 from just 67 balls.
India ended the day at 131/1 with Gambhir and Dravid at the crease.
DAY 5:-This day completely belonged to India despite losing Dravid very early.Gambhir
scored a 66 and departed but Sachin continued the scoring along with Laxman
till lunch requiring another 174 to win.Laxman was dismissed post lunch and then
came the mamoth partnership of 163 between Sachin and Yuvraj which took India
home.Sachin in the process scored his 41st test century and Yuvraj scored 85.

In this way India registered an upright win against England and going 1 up in the series.
So the series stands at 1-0.This win will be remembered for quite a long time.

MAN OF THE MATCH--- SEHWAG
MY MAN OF THE MATCH-----SACHIN