da betano casino： As expected, Queensland applied the finishing touches to a comfortableten wicket win over India in the tour match between the teams at the’Gabba in Brisbane on Monday
John Polack29-Nov-1999As expected, Queensland applied the finishing touches to a comfortableten wicket win over India in the tour match between the teams at the’Gabba in Brisbane on Monday. Play on the fourth and final day of thematch spanned a period of just 95 minutes as Stuart Law (60*) andJimmy Maher (20*) took easy toll of an attack understandably lackingin inspiration.Whilst neither batsmen was necessarily all that impressive, there wereno real alarms at any stage for the Queenslanders and their pursuit ofthe meagre 81 runs required for victory was relatively effortless inits nature. Indeed, the only hint of a threat came in the form of aheavy shower which forced the players from the field for 25 minuteswhen the home team was placed at 0/58. Even though he was notespecially impressive and was repeatedly beaten by Venkatesh Prasad inthe course of one over in the middle of the innings, Law’s decision topromote himself to the unfamiliar opening role afforded him the sortof valuable time in the middle that he has rarely enjoyed this seasonand he set about polishing off the target without ever encounteringtoo much discomfort.Together with a very sedate Maher, his work this morning capped offjust over three days of excellent cricket from the Bulls, a fine allround batting and bowling exhibition allowing them to dictate theterms of this match from early on Friday.For as impressive as the Queenslanders proved, however, this was alsoa decidedly mediocre beginning to India’s tour. Whilst it should bementioned in their defence that this Queensland team is possibly thestrongest of all the State sides in Australia at present, there isprecious little about which to be positive for the tourists at the endof this game.Over the course of the match, only four of their batsmen were able toexceed a score of 20 in either of their two innings. Aside from theimpressive double of VVS Laxman (113 & 73) and the masterful firstinnings of captain Sachin Tendulkar (83), there was little applicationevident in any of their players’ displays at the batting crease. Moreworryingly, perhaps, their performance with the bat on a pitchoffering a healthy quantity of pace and bounce was eerily reminiscentof Pakistan’s effort against the same opposition at the start of theirown tour of Australia less than a month ago.Similarly, their bowling lacked penetration. Thirunavukarasu Kumaranstrove hard, finding a good measure of pace and moving the ball bothways to press his claims for Test selection but he barely received anysupport.Fellow pacemen Debashish Mohanty and Prasad laboured for the mostpart, although it should be said in mitigation that it is never easyfor a touring team’s bowlers to find the correct line and lengthimmediately upon their arrival in Australia. Leg spinner Anil Kumble,from whom big things are expected on this tour, was also disappointingand any repetitions of his concession of 131 runs from 29 wicketlessovers through the remainder of the visit could well prove disastrous.