India wins the warm up game

India wins the first practice game against Netherlands by a comfortable margin of 182 runs. Cricinfo says that the pitch is a typical West Indian pitch. The point to note is that no batsman actually scored a hundred.

Sehwag unfortunately continued his poor form scoring just 28 runs. Tendulkar and Dravid did the bulk of the scoring with 61 and 74 respectively.

I think it’s a decent start. Practice matches are mostly for experimenting and a margin of 182 is a handsome winning margin. We definitely expect to see better starts from the openers when the real matches start.

From Netherlands, the highest score was 32 by opener B Zuiderent. Barring three players. No one actually touched two figures. That says it all.

Yuvraj Singh got 4 wickets at an economy rate of 3.13.

Here is the scorecard from cricinfo: