Tense start for India against England as Sehwag survives misses

Feb 27, 2011 |

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Virender Sehwag brought a capacity-packed M. Chinnaswamy Stadium to its feet as India took off to a tense start against England here in Bengaluru on Sunday.

James Anderson successfully found the thick edge of Veeru with the first ball of the first over which went past a fully stretched Graeme Swann. The crowd was just settling back, when Sehwag tossed the third ball over Ian Bell in extra cover.

Despite the jittery start, India were 21/0 in four overs

India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat against England in a World Cup Group B match at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday.

India made one change from the team that beat fellow co-hosts Bangladesh by 87 runs in Dhaka, bringing in leg-spinner Piyush Chawla for wayward fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth.

That gave India a second spinner alongside off-break bowler Harbhajan Singh.

England made two switches from the side that scraped a six-wicket win over the Netherlands after fast bowler Stuart Broad was ruled out with illness, bringing in fellow seamer Ajmal Shahzad.

They also dropped all-rounder Ravi Bopara and, like India, opted for a second spinner in left-armer Michael Yardy on a pitch expected to take turn.

This match had originally been scheduled for Kolkata but was switched to Bangalore after International Cricket Council officials said work still needed to be done on the Eden Gardens ground to make it tournament ready.

India: Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt/wkt), Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Piyush Chawla, Munaf Patel

England: Andrew Strauss (capt), Kevin Pietersen, Jonathan Trott, Ian Bell, Paul Collingwood, Matt Prior (wkt), Michael Yardy, Tim Bresnan, Graeme Swann, Ajmal Shahzad, James Anderson

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