Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir put on a match winning opening partnership of 155 runs and had both the captains Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Shoaib Malik singing their praise song. India beat Pakistan by a comprehensive 140 run margin after setting a huge target of 331 build on a brilliant first wicket partnership. They displayed exceptional running between the wickets. They took singles even on good deliveries. Credit goes to the batsmen Dhoni said after the match. The Indian captain said they exploited the conditions better than their rivals. It was a good start. It was a good toss to win as wicket gets slower as the game progresses. Bowlers bowled well. Ishant Praveen, Pathan and Chawla did well. We exploited the conditions well he said with youngsters performing well Dhoni said picking the last eleven has become a headache for them. It is good to have bench strength but it is tough to players out of the side. It is tough to leave a bowler like RP Singh. We have to give chances to everyone in between and they have to cash he said. Malik praised Indias opening batsmen and rued his bowler`s lackluster performance. They are a brilliant pair, they batted superbly. We have got a decent attack but we did not bowl in the right areas. We had playing good cricket for some time and it was a bad day Malik said. Malik also said that they missed a quality spinner in their ranks and defended not bringing himself on the attack on the slow pitch. We were playing with five bowlers so I did not bowl man of the match Sehwag who made a scintillating 89 said it was difficult to shift the gears from the T20 to One dayers of course after Twenty20 it was difficult to leave the balls. It was good track to bat and ball was coming on to the bat in the first 10 overs but after that it was coming and stopping. I waited for bad deliveries and just build on that Sehwag said. The flamboyant batsman also spoke about his brilliant tuning with Gambhir saying we have good understanding. It is easy to play with him. We have been playing in the Delhi team as well and now for India.
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