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India surrender series to Pakistan
Pak thrashed India by 159 runs in the sixth one-dayer to win the series 4-2, writes Jaideep Ghosh. Full Score
By about 3.30 in the afternoon, the dented Indian castle had been turned into dust and cotton, and sent whirling around the Ferozshah Kotla Stadium. And for those who had woken up about 12 hours earlier on a Sunday morning to go and witness this no-contest, it was all too much to handle.
The bottles that rained down on the ground were testimony to that frustration, and the fact that the same bottles were denied to the entire stadium till after 11 a.m., when Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf left.
Amidst all the number there were a few more unsavoury figures. In reply to Pakistan's 303 for eight in 50 overs, India were packed off for 144 pathetic runs in 37 overs, giving the visitors the match, and the series, 4-2.
The Indians batted like in a nightmare, bats flailing in spasms of the dream, mostly resulting in tame offering to Pakistan fielders. They also ran like they were in a dream, with Rahul Dravid and Yuvraj Singh falling prey to lack of judgment and lack of calling.
