Tuesday, January 1, 2013

India vs Pakistan 2nd ODI match live streaming ESPNSTAR

Ind vs Pak 2nd ODI Live Streaming ESPN STAR Sports

India plays its first cricket match of 2013 against the arch rivals Pakistan with a sweet friendly aim of revenge as Pakistan is now 1-0 up this three ODI series. A win here for India will level the series and win for Pakistan will make the 3rd ODI a mere formality as Pakistan will already have an unbeatable lead of 2-0.

Misbah-ul-haq's team looks all geared up to wrap us this series with a win at the Eden Gardens here in Kolkata. Their confidence would be a cloud nine after winning a T20 and also the first ODI against India. The good things Pakistan took away from that match was brilliant swing bowling that left India struggling on a score of 29 runs for 5 wickets and a brilliant century from Nasir Jamshed. These were the two key factors that gave Pakistan a win with almost two overs remaining.


The Eden Gardens, Kolkata
The only good thing from Indian performance was a fighting knock from MS Dhoni who scored 113 runs when India were five down for hardly 29 runs. He had a good parternership with Raina and Ashwin. India's find in recent times Bhuvaneshwar Kumar clinched a wicket off first ball and continued his good bowling form. Hopefully Eden Gardens swing friendly conditions will help him more.

Ofcourse India is facing a tough time and especially down with one match now they have to win remainder of the matches to clinch the series. This would increase pressure of Indian team and captain Dhoni as well. 

Let us have a look at India's record at the Eden Gardens. India has played 18 ODI matches here and won 10. So not a bad record. But the worrying factor is that Pakistan has played five matches here and won four out of them. The four victories came against India and one loss came against Srilanka. So this implies India has never defeated Pakistan at the Eden Gardens in an ODI match. Can India open their winning account against Pakistan at the Eden Gardens remains a question.

Stay tuned with ESPN Star Sports live streaming online action as we have much more cricket to follow after the India vs Pakistan ODI series. India is to play England in 2013 for an ODI series this month. This will be followed by a much awaited India vs Australia 2013 tesr series to be played in India from February.

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