India crush Pakistan by huge 140-run margin

Dhaka: Some attacking batting by the Indians, combined with some pathetic bowling and equally ridiculous captaincy by Pakistan skipper Shoaib Malik saw India rattle up a potentially match-winning 330-8 in their tri-series game.
After Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat, the batsmen went about scoring runs with great aplomb.
The Pakistani bowlers completely lost their poise as the Indians went after them from the beginning of the innings.

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Openers Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag piled up 155 runs and most of the other batsmen also chipped in, running the Pakistanis ragged.

The fielding side was completely demoralised as the bowlers bowled all over -- short, wide and overpitched.

The lowest ebb came after left-arm seamer Wahab Riaz was ordered out of the attack by the umpires after he bowled two beamers.

Pakistan skipper Shoaib Malik, in his wisdom, threw the ball to strike bowler Sohail Tanvir, ensuring that the IPL hero gets to bowl only 9.4 of his 10-over quota. Ultimately, it was left to Younis Khan to bowl the last over.

India got fine contributions from most of the batsmen, with Gambhir (55) and Sehwag (89) doing the initial damage.

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The only man not to get going was Yusuf Pathan, who made his One-day International debut.

This is India's first game of the series, while Pakistan have already registered a 70-run win over hosts Bangladesh on Sunday.

India: Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma.

Pakistan: Salman Butt, Kamran Akmal, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Misbah-ul-Haq, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Iftikhar Anjum.