Scotland lose to India in one-day international cricket match

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August 16, 2007

India have beaten Scotland by seven wickets in a One-Day International at Titwood, Glasgow, Scotland.

Scotland were reduced to 49-4 after losing the opening batsmen cheaply followed by the loss of Watson and Haq in quick succession. However a rain delay shortened the Scotland innings to 46 overs. Scottish batsmen Gavin Hamilton and Neil McCallum shared a partnership of 82 runs and Craig Wright hit 37 off 34 balls to help Scotland to 203-9 after 46 overs.

India comfortably reached the revised Duckworth-Lewis target of 209 runs from 46 overs despite some good initial fielding from Scotland and the loss of three wickets. Robin Uthappa scored a half century while Gautam Gambhir scored 85 runs. India won the match by seven wickets with 37 balls to spare.

India will play a seven-match tour of England later this month, having already won the Test series earlier this week.

An associate member of the ICC, Scotland missed a chance to play against a full member country in July when a match against Pakistan was abandoned due to rain.

Toss: India won, and chose to field first
Scotland innings
Player Status Runs Balls 4s 6s Strike rate
D F Watts c Dhoni b Singh 6 28 0 0 21.42
N S Poonia lbw b Agarkar 1 7 0 0 14.28
R R Watson c Piyush Chawla b Patel 24 32 3 0 75.00
R M Haq c Piyush Chawla b Singh 11 18 2 0 61.11
G M Hamilton b Agarkar 44 78 3 0 56.41
N F I McCallum c Dhoni b Piyush Chawla 41 65 3 1 63.07
C J O Smith lbw b Piyush Chawla 4 8 1 0 50.00
C M Wright run out (Agarkar/Dhoni) 37 34 2 1 108.82
J A R Blain c Piyush Chawla b Patel 4 4 0 0 100.00
P J C Hoffmann not out 5 4 0 0 125.00
J D Nel not out 0 0 0 0 -
Extras (b 2, lb 2, w 20, nb 2) 26
Total (9 Wickets; 46 overs) 203 14 2

Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Poonia, 4.2 ov), 2-22 (Watts, 7.6 ov), 3-49 (Watson, 13.6 ov), 4-49 (Haq, 14.1 ov), 5-131 (McCallum, 32.6 ov), 6-146 (Smith, 36.2 ov), 7-178 (Hamilton, 42.6 ov), 8-198 (Wright, 45.1 ov), 9-199 (Blain, 45.4 ov)
India bowling
Bowler Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Econ
A B Agarkar 9 0 54 2 6.00
R P Singh 9 0 26 2 2.88
M M Patel 9 0 36 2 4.00
Piyush Chawla 10 0 42 2 4.20
R R Powar 9 0 41 0 4.55
India innings (Target: 209 runs from 46 overs)
Player Status Runs Balls 4s 6s Strike rate
R V Uthappa b Wright 55 62 8 1 88.70
G Gambhir not out 85 115 8 1 73.91
K D Karthik c McCallum b Haq 14 26 2 0 52.84
Yuvraj Singh b Blain 38 28 5 1 135.71
Rahul Dravid not out 10 8 2 0 125.00
Extras (lb 2, w 8) 10
Total (3 Wickets; 39.5 overs) 212 25 3

Did not bat: M S Dhoni, Piyush Chawla, A B Agarkar, R R Powar, R P Singh, M M Patel

Fall of wickets: 1-104 (Uthappa, 20.2 ov), 2-137 (Karthik, 29.3 ov), 3-198 (Yuvraj Singh, 37.4 ov)
Scotland bowling
Bowler Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Econ
P J C Hoffmann 9 0 43 0 4.77
J A R Blain 8.5 2 41 1 4.64
J D Nel 6 0 48 0 8.00
C M Wright 10 1 46 1 4.60
R M Haq 6 0 32 1 5.33

Scotland: D F Watts, N S Poonia, R R Watson, R M Haq, G M Hamilton, N F I McCallum, C J O Smith (wkt), C M Wright (capt), J A R Blain, P J C Hoffmann, J D Nel

India: R V Uthappa, G Gambhir, K D Karthik, Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid (capt), M S Dhoni (wkt), Piyush Chawla, A B Agarkar, R R Powar, R P Singh, M M Patel

Player of the match: G Gambhir (India)

Umpires: I J Gould (England) and I L Howell (South Africa)
Match referee: R S Madugalle (Sri Lanka)

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