Commonwealth Games 2014: Abhinav Bindra clinches gold, India's medal tally reaches 10 on Day 2

Glasgow: Indian Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra made the nation proud on the second day of Commonwealth games in Glasgow as he clinched maiden singles gold medal in Men`s 10m Air Rifle event.

He outshined Bangladesh’s Abdullah Baki with a margin of 3.2 points after finishing at 205.3 points at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre on Friday.

The bronze medal went to England’s Daniel Rivers.

Teenager Malaika Goel, on the other hand, bagged a silver as both the shooters added two more medals to India`s kitty.

The 16-year-old Malaika Goel gave India their first shooting medal with a silver in the women`s 10m Air Pistol event while favourite Heena Sidhu fell by the wayside at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre at Dundee.

India’s medal tally has reached the two digit number with 10 medals in bag as the impressive show of the weightlifters continued. A young girl from Madhya Pradesh Santoshi Matsa won the bronze medal in the women`s 53 kg category as she lifted a total of 188 kg.

Five out of total ten medals have come from the weightlifting event. India had won two gold, a silver and a bronze on the opening day of the event.

 

India were placed fifth on the medals table with a tally of 3 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze.

England (32) is leading the list followed by Australia (32), Scotland (15) and Canada (9 - Four gold medals).

It was Bindra`s first individual gold medal in the Commonwealth Games. He had won the pairs gold in Manchester (2002), Melbourne (2006) and in front of the home crowd in New Delhi fours years ago.

In the women`s section, Goel shot an aggregate of 197.1 in the finals to finish second and grab her first senior international medal after a close fight for the gold on the opening day of shooting competitions.

Former world number one and a pre-competition favourite Heena Sindhu finished a disappointing seventh after topping the qualifications. She was the second shooter to be eliminated in the eight-women field in the final round.

 

Image 3: (Point tally)

The Indian men`s hockey team launched their campaign on a sluggish note as they toiled hard to register a 3-1 win over a lowly Wales in their opening Pool A match at the National Hockey Centre.

Ranked ninth in the world, India had to dig deep to overcome a resolute Wales defence and pocket full points.

India scored two goals through penalty corner conversions by V R Raghunath (20th minute) and Rupinder Pal Singh (42nd) before comeback man Girvinder Singh Chandi scored from a field effort in the 47th minute.

Wales` lone goal was netted by Andrew Cornick in the 23rd minute from field play.
India will next play hosts Scotland tomorrow, while Wales will be up against world champions and reigning Commonwealth Games champions Australia.

Indian judokas failed to replicate their opening day performance with only Sunibala Huidrom managing to enter the bronze-medal contest in the women`s 70kg category.

Sunibala faced a tough test in the repechage contest but she managed to prevail over Monika Burgess of Canada in a battle that lasted for three minutes and 58 seconds to make the medal round.

She will now fight for the bronze medal with Scotland`s Sally Conway later in the day.

However, it was curtains for Garima Choudhary in the women`s 63kg category after she went down fighting in her repechage round.

Earlier in the day, Sunibala got the better of Australia`s Catherine Arscott in the quarterfinals in another tough four-minute contest, while it took her just 53 seconds to beat Memory Zikhale of Botswana in her round of 16 bout, as she got a couple of Wazaris, which is equivalent to an `Ippon` that finishes a contest.

Garima, who was the only Indian judoka to have qualified for the London Olympics in 2012, lost to K J Yeats-Brown of England in the repechage. Yeats-Brown won on the basis of two Wazaris.

Indian men had a disappointing outing as both Balvinder Singh and V Vikender Singh lost in the round of 32 in 73kg and 81kg, respectively.

In swimming, Sandeep Sejwal became the first Indian swimmer to clear the qualification round and make it to the semifinals of the men's 100m breaststroke event.

Sejwal finished 12th overall after clocking 1:02.97 seconds in the heat to advance to the next round. A total of 16 swimmers qualified for the semifinal stage of the competition at the Tollcross Swimming Centre.

Sejwal came fourth in heat number three but 12th overall in a field of 34 swimmers.

However, India failed to make the main round of men's 200m freestyle event, as Sajan Prakash finished a lowly 22nd in the qualification.

Indian paddlers continued their rampaging form as the men's and women's teams blanked Guyana and Kenya 3-0 respectively in the group stage of the table tennis team competition.
After thrashing Vanuatu 3-0 on the opening day, the Indian men's team continued their good showing with Anthony Amalraj brushing aside Shamar Britton 11-4 11-3 11-3 to give his side an early lead.

Young Soumyajit Ghosh then beat Christopher Franklin 11-8 11-5 11-9 to make it 2-0 in India's favour. Sanil Shankar Shetty and Amalraj then paired up to get the better of Paul David and Franklin 11-8 11-6 11-5 to complete the rout.

Indian squash star Joshna Chinappa suffered a 1-3 defeat against World No. 4 Joelle King of New Zealand in the round of 16 to crash out of the women's singles competition.

The 27-year-old from Chennai, who won the Winnipeg Winter Open trophy -- her maiden WSA world title in February this year -- lost 3-11 8-11 11-8 5-11 against her third seeded opponent at the Scotstoun Campus.

Indian cyclists' dismal show continued at the Games as they failed to qualify for the finals of both Men's 4000m Individual pursuit and Women's 3000m Individual pursuit events.

 

Image 2: Abhinav Bindra with his gold medal

 

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Ravindra Jadeja fined 50 percent of match fee for violating spirit of game

NEI India Film Editing Via Daily.Bhaskar London: Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has been found guilty of resorting to “conduct contrary to the spirit of the game” in the ongoing fracas with English pace spearhead James Anderson, and the former has been fined fifty percent of his match fee by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
While Anderson's hearing is due to take place after the Southampton Test starting Sunday, David Boon of the Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees found the Saurashtra cricketer guilty under Article 2.1.8 instead of the offence for which Jadeja was originally charged with.

"India's Ravindra Jadeja has been found guilty of a Level 1 breach of the ICC Code of Code for Players and Player Support Personnel for his involvement in an incident with James Anderson during the second day of the first cricket Test against England at Trent Bridge on 10 July," ICC said in a media statement on Friday.
ICC's official website quoted Boon, "Under Article 6.1 of the Code, I had to be comfortably satisfied that the offence had occurred in order to find Mr Jadeja guilty of an offence under Article 2.2.11. While I was in no doubt that confrontation did occur, and that such conduct was not in the spirit of the game and should not have taken place, I was not comfortably satisfied that this was a level 2 offence. Therefore, in exercising my discretion under Article 7.6.5 of the Code and having heard all the evidence, I was comfortably satisfied that Mr Jadeja had committed a level 1 offence under Article 2.1.8 of the Code."
Boon, during the two and a half hour hearing, is learnt to have examined statements from both sides, including those from witnesses and the available video footage.
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Abhinav Bindra clinches gold medal in Men's 10m Air Rifle event

NEI India Film Editing Via Daily.Bhaskar Glasgow: Abhinav Bindra added another laurel to the tally of Indian medals when he clinched a gold medal in the 10m Air Rifle event in Commonwealth Games being organised in Glasgow.
Bindra secured the medal with a score of 205.3. He was closely followed by Abdullah Baki (202.1) from Bangladesh and Daniel Rivers (182.4) from England.

Ravi Kumar, with a score of 162.4), was left stranded at fourth position after leading majority of the event.
With the medal, India stood at fourth spot in the overall medals tally with 3 golds, 4 silvers and 2 bronze.
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CWG 2014: 16-year old Malaika Goel wins Silver in 10-mt air pistol

NEI India Film Editing Via Daily.Bhaskar New Delhi: Malaika Goel earned India its fourth Silver in the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, finishing second behind Singapore’s Shun Xie Teo in the women's 10-metre air pistol competition at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre on Friday.

The teenaged wonder survived immense pressure after another medal prospect Heena Sidhu failed to live up to the hype. Sidhu finished seventh with a score of 95.8 points.

Goel, however, was in top form, and with a total of 197.1 points, the 16-year-old opened India’s account in the sport that had accounted for a third of India’s medals in New Delhi four years back.
Canada's Dorothy Ludwig took bronze.
Goel, who hails from Punjab and is world no.15, took up shooting in 2009. She was inspired to take up shooting by Purnoor Kaur, another student from her school, who won a medal at the district level. This sure makes it worth it. After Sidhu crashed out early, the pressure was on Goel and she is one that everyone will keep an eye on in the future as well.
2012 was a defining year for Malaika as she gave one sterling performance after another to emerge as a top pistol shooter in the country. She won a silver medal in the Senior National Championships in December 2012 and in February 2013 she went on to win the National trials where she beat top senior shooters of the country. She also won a silver medal at the Asian Air Gun Championships in China in December 2012 to prove that she is a talent to watch out for in 2013.
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CWG 2014: Lethargic India beat Wales 3-1 in Hockey opener

NEI India Film Editing Via Daily.Bhaskar New Delhi: India’s men’s hockey team opened its campaign in the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with an unconvincing, but important, 3-1 win over Wales in their Pool A tie at the Glasgow National Hockey Centre on Friday.
Slow off the blocks, India were restricted to a 1-1 scoreline in the first half by Wales, ranked 22 places behind Sardar Singh’s men.

However, two second half goals ensured India open their campaign after yet another World Cup debacle on a high.
V.R. Raghunath opened the scoring for India from a penalty corner in the 20th minute. However, three minutes on, the Welsh equalized through a Andrew Cornick stinger.
It was another penalty corner post-break that gave India the lead for the second time in the match. R. Singh was at hand in 42nd minute to turn the ball into the back of the net.
Gurwinder Singh Chandi put the match beyond Wales in the 47th minute from India`s first open-play goal in the match.
India, who have been grouped with Wales, Scotland, and South Africa besides World Champions and defending CWG champions Australia, will next take on hosts Scotland on Saturday before taking on the Aussies on July 29, followed by their last pool encounter against South Africa slated for July 31.
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India’s tour of England: Prior relieves himself of national duties, Cook retains captaincy

New Delhi: Reeling under the aftermath of their seventh defeat in nine Tests, England have retained faith in their beleaguered skipper, even as wicketkeeper-batsman Matt Prior has recused himself for rest of the season owing to injuries and indifferent form. 

 

Cook, it must be noted, has been under intense pressure for a while. His loss at Lord’s is preceded by a 1-0 series loss to Sri Lanka at home, and a 5-0 Ashes rout in Australia. To make matters worse, his own form with bat has been woeful, to say the least. In his last 10 Test innings, the England skipper has managed to cross the fifty-run mark just once, and has scored just 180 runs. 

 

Cook, however, is not willing to go down without a fight. 

 

“Until that bloke taps me on the shoulder and says, ‘We don’t want you to captain’, I’m desperate to try to turn this around for England,” The Telegraph quotes the English skipper as saying. 

 

“If I’m not scoring runs by the end of the series and we’re losing more games it becomes tougher and tougher doesn’t it and I’m clearly not the man to turn it around.

 

“I have been talking to Mooresy (Peter Moores, the England head coach) over the last couple of days in tough times and me and him think we can turn it around. If I’m not good enough at the end of the summer then so be it, but I’m trying my heart out to do this,” he added.

 

Prior, on the other hand, has voluntarily relinquished his place in the side, owing to injuries.  The 32-year old, however, is not quitting the game yet. 

 

“The decision I’ve made is that I’m unavailable for the rest of this series due to my fitness,” The Telegraph quotes Prior, who will undergo surgery on his Achilles in an attempt to save his career.

 

“I’m not retiring or anything like that, I would still love to play for England and I still know what I can offer England, but right now I’m not physically able to be at the level I need to be in order to perform at my level.

 

“I’m not doing justice to myself and more importantly the team and that is what matters first and foremost.

 

“I’ve had a combination of injuries that have had an impact. My Achilles, everyone knows about and is an ongoing problem and my goal was to get it to a manageable place. I tore my quad before the first Test and my right hand has been beaten to a pulp, but the main issue is the Achilles. Now we have the time, I want to be proactive about how we deal with it so I imagine that I’ll have an operation,” he added.

 

Jos Buttler, the 23-year old wicketkeeper-batsman has been roped in as Prior’s replacement for the Southampton Test. The Lancashire cricketer has played 33 ODIs and 36 T20s for England in his three year international career, and will certainly make his Test debut on Sunday. 

 

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India to lodge protest against FIBA after Sikh players ‘forced’ to remove turbans

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New Delhi: Over 10 days after two of its Sikh players were asked to remove their turbans at the fifth FIBA Asia Cup in China, the Basketball Federation of India (BFI) has decided to lodge a formal complaint against sport’s global governing body. 

The incident dates back to Saturday, July 12, when, just before the game against Japan, two Sikh players - Amritpal Singh and Amjyot Singh - were asked to remove their turbans as wearing it allegedly violated International Basketball Federation (FIBA) rules. 

According to media reports, the match officials reportedly cited Article 4.4.2 of FIBA rules that state, "Players shall not wear equipment (objects) that may cause injury to other players." It further says: "Headgear, hair accessories and jewellery are not permitted." 

India's American coach Scott Flemming reportedly tried to reason it out with the officials, but to no avail. Amritpal and Amjyot did not feature in the starting five in the game, and took to court only after removing their turbans, with the former scoring a game-high 15 points.

Speaking to Dailybhaskar.com, BFI’s General Secretary Ajay Sud said the organization has taken cognizance of the event and will lodge a formal protest against FIBA on Thursday, July 24. 

“We have taken note of it (the incident). This is unprecedented. Nothing of this sort has ever happened before,” he said. 

“There is a meeting of FIBA Asia in Doha tomorrow. We will raise the issue there, and will lodge a formal protest against FIBA,” he confirmed. 

K Govindraj, BFI’s senior Vice- President, will represent India in FIBA Asia meet on Thursday. Attempts to reach him for comments proved unsuccessful. Calls to BFI President R S Gill also went unanswered. 

India put up a spirited show in the FIBA World Cup, where they defeated hosts China for the first time ever. Overall, with 3 wins and 4 losses, the Indians finished seventh in the nine-team competition.

Sri Lanka A win despite Poynter ton

Ireland v Sri Lanka A, 1st unofficial ODI, Belfast

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Stuart Poynter scored a fighting century to rejuvenate a sinking Ireland chase but his innings couldn't quite take his team over the finish line, as Sri Lanka A wrapped up a 28-run win in the first unofficial ODI in Belfast.

Chasing 284, Ireland were 107 for 7 when Eddie Richardson, who had taken a five-wicket haul in the visitors' innings, retired hurt. Craig Young then added 81 with Poynter before he became medium-pacer Dushmantha Chameera's fourth victim. Ireland needed 116 at that point, with 69 balls remaining.

Poynter and last man Peter Chase brought the equation down to 55 from 24 balls after taking 15 runs off the 46th over, but Ishan Jayaratne and Lahiru Gamage gave away just 11 in the next three overs to leave Ireland needing an improbable 44 from the final over. Poynter reached his century with a six off the first ball and hit fours off the next two legitimate deliveries but was out with two balls remaining, having struck 11 fours and two sixes in his 89-ball 109.

Sent in to bat, Sri Lanka A lost Kusal Perera in the first over before Mahela Udawatte and Danushka Gunathilaka scored half-centuries in a 106-run second-wicket partnership. With Ashan Priyanjan and Chathuranga de Silva making useful contributions, Sri Lanka A reached 250 before they lost their last five wickets in a heap, all of them to medium-pacer Richardson, and were bowled out for 283. Udawatte top-scored with 88.

 

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Dhoni decides, Ishant provides

MS Dhoni and Ishant Sharma reversed India's customary defensive strategies, on day five at Lord's, to help them to a landmark Test win

It is just before 1pm. The ghosts of Johannesburg and Wellington are warming up. There has not been a wicket the whole session. Joe Root and Moeen Ali have added 84. The pitch is not green anymore. It is not Bhuvneshwar Kumar's pitch anymore. Mohammed Shami has wobbled the ball a bit, but the two young England batsmen have been resolute. Ravindra Jadeja has kept the batsmen honest - they dare not play an adventurous shot with the balls landing in the rough one after the other - but where is the wicket? When nothing else works, MS Dhoni goes to Ishant Sharma. They need someone who can hit that pitch hard now to exploit the uneven bounce. It is time for Ishant then, the man with the worst record for anyone who has played 50 Tests or more, the man who never shies away from the dirty work. Lucky Ishant. Unlucky Ishant. The only Ishant.

England see an opportunity here. Root gets stuck into Ishant. The first ball is a loosener. A long half-volley. Four. Shane Warne doing commentary wonders why the fast bowlers do not bowl the bouncer as a loosener if they need a loosener. Dhoni has started wondering why not bowl bouncers here. Later in the over Root drives loosely, but through the gap. Four more. Then Ishant bowls short and wide, and Root guides him through gully for four. Root's fifty has come up. The target is now under 150. Hello Wanderers. Hello Basin.

Dhoni bowls Jadeja. Gets a quiet over in. Ishant is persisted with for the last over before lunch. He is asked to bowl bouncers. He does not really feel comfortable doing it. This is England, isn't it, where you are supposed to bowl full. Dhoni tells him, don't worry, even a top edge caught in the deep is a wicket. As good as caught in the slips. We need wickets...

Just to make sure he gives Ishant a field where he cannot bowl full. Leg gully, short leg, short midwicket, two men deep on the hook. Dhoni has stepped in. This is the Dhoni we do not know well. This is the Dhoni who has possibly been passive twice. He does not want to be now.

Ishant digs one in. Root ducks it. He has to bowl one more now. Will he? Will he ever? This is right at Root's throat. Root fends at it. What a welcome sight for anyone willing to bowl short and fast on the final day. The next one is into the ribs. Root wears it. Gets off the strike with the leg-bye, which should not really be, because he has let it hit him as opposed to taking evasive action.

Ishant has Moeen on strike now. The next two short deliveries are down the leg side. One so far down he has to pull out from the pull shot. The last ball of the session. If England survive this ball, no matter what how ungainly they look doing it, they go to lunch with a huge psychological boost. India can start questioning themselves. Can we really ever win a Test away from home? Ishant needs to get this one absolutely right. No easy leave here. He bowls one at the throat. With a plan telegraphed to him, it should be easy for Moeen to get under this. He does not. He cannot sway out of the way either. This is a poor way of playing at this. He gloves it. Moeen's mind has switched off. India have turned the session around.

Forty minutes later. India want to bounce England some more. Matt Prior has shown this summer that he does not like it up there. There's only 146 to get, though. This can unravel fast if the bowlers get it wrong. How often have they got it wrong in the past? And if they get it wrong, how long before Dhoni feels the need to defend? The good thing is, there are only four overs to go to the new ball. Dhoni has a definite target in sight.

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Shami, though, bowls soft bouncers. He is pulled away for 10 runs in the first over after lunch. Surely this is not working? Only 136 to get now. Dhoni hates to concede runs. Surely this cannot go on for too long? Think of the time when he sent back a deep point when an injured Jacques Kallis reverse-swept Harbhajan Singh in Cape Town in 2010-11. That game was headed only one way after that: away from India.

Ishant is allowed to do it for another over, though. The first ball is short and wide. Easy four. Ishant still does not seem convinced about it, but he is the man who can actually bowl the short ball well. He is quick, he is tall. Dhoni leaves him no choice. Two men on the hook, just one slip for the new batsman, a short leg and a short midwicket. Ishant goes for another four as Prior drags a pull from wide outside off and hits the last ball of the over through deep midwicket. The target is now only 126. Only twenty-five per remaining wicket. They are knocking them off by the 10s.

The old Dhoni would have spread the field all over by now. He is not doing it now. He is, as Warne says, prepared to lose in order to win. He knows only too well, thanks to his own batsmen, that you cannot continue hooking with total control of it. He has now put one more man in the deep. A deep fine leg, a deep square leg and a deep midwicket. He is not worried about the runs. He just wants Ishant to eliminate every other shot. And this is no mickey-mouse boundary where you can feel confident of hooking for a six in such a tense situation.

Eightieth over then. Possibly the last before India attack with the new ball. First ball. Pulled down. Single. Second ball. No-ball. Pulled down. Single. Two more similar singles. The target is now 121. Ishant tries the bluff. Bowls full. Prior is equal to it. Two more balls, and India might go back to bowling length with the new ball. Root and Prior have gained some sort of momentum and confidence. If they attack the new ball and it flies away, this game could be over quickly.

Down to two more balls from Ishant. Dhoni goes up to him. Asks him to go round the stumps. Ishant does not like it. Dhoni insists. Ishant goes for it. And he gets this one right. Over the shoulder and across Prior's body. This is not easy to control. And M Vijay judges a catch nicely at deep midwicket. In a workhorsely manner, Ishant has kept India in it again. And look at Dhoni leap for joy while running towards his team-mates. His plan has come off. He hardly ever does this. Give away runs to buy wickets, or show such emotion. If Johannesburg and Wellington are giant blimps hanging over wherever India play, they have been pricked. It is only a matter of time now.

And now that Dhoni is in control, he begins to do his funky thing. He refuses the new ball. Because Jadeja provides him control with the old ball. Ishant is hurting, but he can go on. He can smell the win, how can you take the ball out of his hand? It would be unfair too. Ben Stokes comes, Ben Stokes pulls, Ben Stokes goes out. Root pulls. Root finds deep backward square. There is no "c Dhoni b Ishant" on the scoreboard but these wickets are all conceived by Dhoni and taken by Ishant.

In his last 18 legal deliveries, Ishant has taken four wickets for 17 runs. He is in pain. He is on his haunches. He is also on the honours board. And two wickets from a win at Lord's. Dhoni tells him there are three more Tests to go. He does not want him injured. If there is the slightest bit of niggle anywhere, he need not bowl another over. Ishant is having none of it. He bowls another over. Then another. Finally the literal c Dhoni b Ishant makes its poetic appearance as Stuart Broad edges a short delivery down leg. At 23-6-74-7, Ishant's job is over. Now, he walks off the field.

Jadeja finishes the match with bête noir James Anderson's run-out. Ishant is not on the field. Players have had their huddle. They have taken stumps as souvenirs. Jadeja has even shaken Anderson's hand and tapped his shoulder. Only when the players make it to just outside the pavilion does Ishant step out. Shami holds the match ball in his palm as if in a cup. Smiling that toothy smile that he has never let go of, Ishant accepts it gleefully. Anyone who does not feel happy for this much-maligned cricketer has a rock for a heart.

Dhoni has taken the back seat somewhere. He has been positive from the moment he has landed in England. Batting himself at six, persisting with attacking fields even when runs are flowing, getting into the bowlers' ears, getting them to do things he wants as opposed to letting matches drift. Long may he remain.

Sidharth Monga is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo

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Vijay rediscovers the old Monk

The leave outside off stump has been critical to M Vijay's success since his India comeback last year. Contrary to popular opinion, such patience and self-denial comes naturally to him

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Chappell: Epitome of a fighting knock from Vijay

M Vijay is the highest run-getter in this series so far. Surprise. He has scored more than Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ian Bell and Alastair Cook put together. Surprise. His strike-rate is under 40, and he has not offered a shot to 315 balls out of the 922 he has faced. No surprise. However, commentators and observers have been surprised, hailing this effort of 317 runs in four innings so far as Vijay's going against his natural game. Those who have followed Vijay's progress know this is his natural game in first-class cricket. Although for entirely different reasons, Vijay is, after all, nicknamed Monk.

Since he came back to Test cricket, in the series against Australia in early 2013, Vijay has left alone more balls than any other batsman, even though six of his 12 Tests over the period have been played in India where you don't really need to leave that much. Offering no shot to 620 out of 2281 balls he has faced in these 12 matches, his leaving rate of 27% is higher than anyone else's in Test cricket, among batsmen who have faced at least 1000 balls; Alastair Cook is just behind with 25%. The runs haven't always followed - he didn't get a century in either South Africa or New Zealand - but he has been getting out to either corkers or strangles down the leg side. Now that the runs have accompanied the effort, the world has finally taken notice.

When Vijay finally got out for 95 in the second innings at Lord's, desperately short of what would have been a memorable hundred on a green pitch tailor-made for the home side, he had for the first time in six away Tests done so playing a nothing push at a ball he would have been better off leaving. This shot wasn't a drive or a punch. Had he middled it he would have sent this back to the bowler or cover. A no-win shot, everyone knows, but darned difficult to avoid, especially for openers. This was a shot most likely brought out by the nerves just before such a big hundred; when the heart is trying to rip its way out of the chest you need to feel bat on ball.

That was also Vijay's first such dismissal in this leg of away Tests; this is exactly the shot he has been successful at avoiding. He has been, as the stats establish, leaving exceptionally well. Leaving is a natural, and a technical, thing. The mind needs to be comfortable not feeling ball on bat for long periods. The back foot needs to go towards the off stump so you judge better which ones you can leave, and so that you at least make the umpire rule you lbw as opposed to leaving your stumps prone should the ball jag back after landing on the seam or hitting a crack. Vijay's back foot goes across. Even Pujara's doesn't go. Kohli was bowled leaving alone at Lord's. Rohit Sharma did that at Kingsmead in the last Test of the last year.

Vijay also has a temperament needed to play that game. He likes to be in a bubble. Just watch the ball, retreat to square leg, then come back and watch the ball again. Even when he hits a four he sees the ball through to the fence instead of running up and down and loosening the limbs a little. He is not much for knocking gloves or long talks between overs either. He can wait for deliveries that are easy to score off. Even after he had finished his hundred at Trent Bridge, he went 38 deliveries without a run when England bowled well with the second new ball.

Yet Vijay carries a reputation he is supposed to battle against. It is possibly borne out of his IPL exploits; during his most successful days in IPL, over a period of four years, he scored as many IPL centuries as he did in first-class cricket: two. IPL possibly had an impact on his long-form game. When you are playing all three formats and haven't established yourself in any yet, it can mess with your game. Before IPL he was a scorer of big hundreds in first-class cricket; having made his way back, he is the same again.

Vijay says uncertainty didn't help either. Before the comeback that started against Australia, he had played 12 Tests over three years, all thanks to the unavailability of either Gautam Gambhir or Virender Sehwag. He might have even sulked a little. He scored 87 against Sri Lanka when Gambhir was away for his sister's wedding, but didn't get the next game. He got 139 against Australia when Gambhir was injured, but the next match he got was much later, on a greentop similar to Lord's, in Durban.

It is justified to feel unsettled by uncertainty to an extent, but most international careers go through this at the start. Nobody comes in with a right to play a certain number of matches before he can be discarded. To be fair to him, Vijay hasn't made a big deal out of it. And fittingly, he has established himself as a worthy India opener on a track similar to one where he got the opportunity in 2010. And a win similar to that too.

Ajinkya Rahane and Bhuvneshwar Kumar provided the early blows, Ravindra Jadeja gave India the war dance, Ishant Sharma and MS Dhoni sealed the deal, but in between Vijay's calming 95, spread over two crucial days, went under-noticed. He is not in bad company in that regard. Eighteen years ago, at the same venue, two Indians playing their first Test at Lord's charmed the world. One got a hundred, the other 95. 

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Ishant Sharma's career-best 7 for 74 helped India beat England by 95 runs, only their second win at Lord's

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Five days, five heroes! Here’s a look at Lords of Lord’s who fashioned historic win for India

NEI India Film Editing Via Daily.Bhaskar New Delhi: After a dispiriting run spread across three years and 15 Test matches, Mahendra Singh Dhoni finally registered an overseas Test win on Monday, defeating England at Lord’s by 95 runs to go 1-0 up in five-Test series.
India’s win, built on solid batting performances by Ajinkya Rahane, Murali Vijay and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, was incredibly fashioned on the last morning of the Test by tall Ishant Sharma, whose hostile spell of short-pitch bowling evoked memories of his dream spell at Perth. Skipper Dhoni successfully kept his famous Test match brain freeze at bay, and astutely planned the final march on the last day. He persuaded Ishant to bowl short-pitch on middle and leg stump consistently, and despite leaking runs initially, the Delhi pacer snared seven to become the first Indian to take that many wickets in a single innings at Lord’s.
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Retired? Sachin Tendulkar predicted Indian win on Day One!

NEI India Film Editing Via Daily.Bhaskar New Delhi: He may have retired from international cricket about six months back, but that has done little to diminish Sachin Tendulkar’s immaculate reading of the game.
The Master Blaster, who retired from international cricket after amassing an unprecedented 100 international tons, had predicted on day one of the Lord’s Test that India may go on to win the Test.
To his credit, he was proven right by Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s men, who constructed a memorable team effort to end India’s 28-year drought at cricket’s Mecca.

Sachin took to social networking site Facebook to express his happiness over the historic win.
“I'm ecstatic, and this victory is a clear reflection of a team effort. I told Arjun that India had the upper hand on Day One (290 for nine) so I think we'll win. I am glad I was proved right,” the man who represented India in world record 200 Tests, wrote.
India defeated England by 95 runs on Monday to end a torrid away run that witnessed them go winless for 15 Tests, spread across three years. The last time Dhoni led his side on a Test tour to England, the hosts handed a 4-0 whitewash to India. Similar fate awaited him in Australia, while in South Africa and New Zealand, he frittered away the advantage after being in winning positions.
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Lords of the Ring: Ishant, Bhuvaneshwar and Murali Vijay help Dhoni end 28-yr-long wait

NEI India Film Editing Via Daily.Bhaskar London: Indian cricket team scored an emphatic victory over England in Lord's after a gap of 28 long years on Monday.

Chasing a target of 319 runs on the last day of the match, England was all out for a score of 223 runs. Ishant Sharma dazzled with the ball and scalped 7 crucial English wickets to help India score a 95-run win.

The win is India's first overseas test victory since June 2011.

This is also India's second test victory in Lord's after a period of 28 years. The last and the first time India won in Lord's was in 1986.

Earlier, Murali Vijay played an apt innings of 95 runs to help India pose a healthy 319-run target in front of the home team.

Vijay displayed immense patience and character in his 247-balls knock that included 11 boundaries.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar's innings was another highlight of the Indian innings when the right-arm medium pace bowler scored an impressive 52 runs on 71 deliveries.

He was duly assisted by specialist batsmen Ravinder Jadeja on the other end. The duo compiled a healthy 99-run stand for the 8th wicket. The left-handed batsman steadied the Indian innings by scoring a quick-fire 68 runs on 57 deliveries that included 9 fours.

In the earlier part of the innings, Ravindra Pujara's knock of carefully crafted 43 runs on 83 deliveries held the mantle when India lost an early wicket at the score of 40 runs.

In the bowling department, the lanky bowler from Delhi scalped 7 crucial English wickets.
Sharma ran through English top order and took important wickets of Cook, Bell, Root, Ali, Prior, Stokes and Board.

Bhuvneshwar was the hero of the first innings when his six wickets helped India restrict English batsmen to a score of 319 runs.
In the English camp, Ballance gave an early scare to the Indian cricket team with his century. Ballance scored 110 runs on 203 deliveries.

Chasing a target of 319 runs, baring the exception of Plunkett (55 runs) no other English batsman could offer any resistance in front of the Indian bowling attack.

English batsman Joe Root was abandoned in the middle as he desperately tried to save the English grace with a knock of 66 runs (149 deliveries).

The only time English cricket team looked to offer any resistance to the Indian attack was during the 101-run fifth wicket partnership between Moeen Ali and Joe Root.

Ali was also the second highest scorer in the England's second innings with 39 runs (147 deliveries).

The English bowlers failed to cast their web around the much-acclaimed Indian batting lineup. James Anderson, with 4 wickets in the first innings, led from the front, but failed to provide any relief in India's second innings.

In the second innings, Stokes and Plunkett shared 3 wickets a piece
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Rahane's hundred turns tables on England

India 290 for 9 (Shami 14*, Ishant 12*, Anderson 4-55) v England
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India will take sustenance from the fact that they have stared down a sinister Lord's greentop and pronounced that they are a long way removed from the submissive outfit that lost 4-0 on their last tour to England. That they scrapped throughout was undeniable, but the dominant innings that finally rewarded a day of hard labours was not as much a stare-down as a display of dancing eyes and neat footwork, an exceptional counter-attacking hundred from Ajinkya Rahane that washed residual ill feeling from an engrossing opening to the second Test.

Rahane's 103 came to grief 15 minutes before the close, courtesy of a nonchalant left-handed catch in his follow-through by James Anderson, an over in which Rahane had driven him confidently through the covers for his second Test hundred. No matter how fulfilling his career, he will not make too many better.

It felt like an appropriate end to a classically-paced innings, which was necessarily cautious as India, despite their best efforts, lost seven wickets for 145, but which then spread into a joyous second 50 at a run a ball as England's pace quartet failed to make use of ideal fast-bowling conditions. Stuart Broad's shake of the head and kick at the ball as India's last pair saw out the day was an apt summation of England's mood.

This was a most uncommon Lord's day. The groundsman, Mick Hunt, unveiled one of the greenest Test pitches the famous old ground had ever witnessed, certainly since the invention of motor mowers, and loud boos broke out when Ravindra Jadeja walked out to the crease, a response to India's insistence that Anderson's alleged altercation with him in the first Test at Trent Bridge should be formally judged by the ICC.

	Ajinkya Rahane helped arrest a middle-order wobble © Getty Images Enlarge

All it needed to complete such rare impropriety was an MCC member, his bacon-and-egg blazer frying in the heat, to strip off to the waist in the Long Room in the manner of Gary Ballance in a Nottingham night club and St John's Wood would have never seemed the same again. Fortunately, the members held their nerve. More than the England attack did. They managed one good session out of three.

For Anderson, the leader of the attack, and a man under siege, Lord's was designed as if to order. Cook had remarked: "He will be desperate just to let his cricket do the talking." India would have observed that there is a first time for everything, but as well as a zip in the pitch there seemed to be a zip on Anderson's mouth and, as he bowled with craft to return 4 for 55, his habitual sledging, as far as could be ascertained, was absent. Rahane played him beautifully, collecting 33 of those runs including a six over long-on.

Variously regarded as sledging devil incarnate or a victim of supreme over-reaction, depending on your point of view, Anderson has trudged wearily across unresponsive England Test pitches for the past year. Now, as he braced himself for an impending ICC investigation which could drag on for the entire summer if the ECB's legal team get their way, he finally had conditions to relish.

At a time of greatest need, records fell his way. He removed Shikhar Dhawan at third slip with his 11th delivery to outdo Fred Trueman as England's leading wicket-taker in home Tests. In his third over of the afternoon, he summoned away movement to add Virat Kohli, the most prized wicket of all, to a regulation keeper's catch: Ian Botham duly fell as the leading wicket-taker in Lord's Tests. His dismissal of Rahane had no record attached, but in cricketing terms it was the most heartfelt. That he has served England admirably was again beyond question.

Ben Stokes almost matched him. His natural length is shorter than these conditions demanded, but he strove to adjust, maintained speeds just short of 90mph and bowled some of the best balls of the day. Broad was below par, but the main under performer was Liam Plunkett, who was well down on pace, huffing and puffing in the heat, England's visits to a health farm - mud baths a speciality - not disguising the draining effects of back-to-back Tests.

To lose both openers by the lunch interval was damage that India would privately have accepted as the ball swung with the enthusiasm of a young puppy. There was not just swing but seam to contend with. But if the pitch was green, India's batsmen were not, more tutored these days perhaps, attitudes hardened by the jowly old sea dog, Duncan Fletcher, and technical advice from Rahul Dravid.

Ballance had awoken to celebrity headlines of "Boozy Ballance" after a photograph of his wind-down following the Trent Bridge Test had been daubed across the papers. His official ticking off had been a token one, to placate the media. Stationed at third slip, he held his catches rather better than his drink. Dhawan fell to Anderson's lavish movement, playing perfectly respectably at a ball that pitched outside leg stump. M Vijay got a leading edge against Plunkett which would have left Ballance briefly unsighted as he tried to turn the ball into the leg side.

On an unsatisfying morning, England had cause to regret two missed chances by Matt Prior, who has not been short of cumbersome moments this summer. Vijay escaped before scoring when Prior moved leadenly for a low catch in front of first slip and Kohli should have been taken off the last of the session when Moeen Ali, bowling the traditional spinner's final over before lunch, saw a straightforward catch put down.

It was a scorching day, with more to come on the morrow. Alastair Cook won the toss, gulped and chose to bowl. It was the right call, however frustrated he would have been at the close. The day suited English traditions: swing for those who knew how to use it and a pitch with enough seam and carry to create interest, the sort of pitch that has kept Test cricket in the hearts and minds of the English public. That should never be betrayed.

It was six overs before Anderson conceded a run, but when his last ball was nonchalantly flicked to the long leg boundary by Cheteshwar Pujara, it was the first sign that India had the capacity to survive. Pujara stuck it out gamely, three hours in making 28, finally studding off side and leg side in turn with two stylish boundaries, only for Stokes to shake his middle stump with one which came back up the slope. He was one of four India wickets to go between lunch and tea, comfortably England's most impressive session as they finally hit greentop lengths.

Jadeja made 3. With the crowd yearning for Anderson to return to the attack - he had bowled 12 overs but a quick foray would have done no harm - instead Cook chose decorum, continued with the spin of Moeen, and Jadeja thrust his front pad at the ball in old-fashioned manner to fall lbw.

There was a milestone, too, not just for Anderson, but for Broad, who made MS Dhoni his 250th Test wicket. Dhoni's innings was India's most unconvincing, a few exploratory strolls down the wicket and, with only 1 to his name, a furtive edge to the keeper. It begged the question whether he can bat at No. 6 in such exacting conditions.

After tea, England were seen off by Rahane. He played the ball late, coped with the seam and bounce like he will tell you a Mumbai batsman should, and then let his instincts flourish. Plunkett's resorting to a short, round-the-wicket attack - an understandable if somewhat two-dimensional tactic on featherbeds - looked a desperate ploy. That was England's low spot of the day.

England, at one stage, would never have envisaged taking the second new ball. But they grabbed it with apprehension at 223 for 7. Bhuvneshwar Kumar's solid support in an eighth-wicket stand of 90 in 24 overs ended when his stumps were spread-eagled in Broad's first over, but by the time Rahane fell to Anderson, 20 balls from the close, India felt the more contented of the sides. England will hope to see the pitch become more straw-coloured under a hot sun and for the seam and swing they have pined for to disappear conveniently for a day or two. 

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