{"id":32,"date":"2007-10-01T11:28:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T05:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/2007\/10\/01\/clarke-dazzles-before-rain-plays-spoilsport\/"},"modified":"2007-10-01T11:28:13","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T05:58:13","slug":"clarke-dazzles-before-rain-plays-spoilsport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/2007\/10\/01\/clarke-dazzles-before-rain-plays-spoilsport\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarke Dazzles before Rain plays Spoilsport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Future Cup 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>India vs Australia 1st ODI played at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/content-ind.cricinfo.com\/db\/PICTURES\/CMS\/80200\/80251.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Clarke acknowledges the crowd on his century against India in the 1st One Day International played in Bangalore\" height=\"678\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Clarke&#8217;s career-best knock went in vain as rains forced the abandonment of the first one-day international between India and Australia here on Saturday.Clarke clobbered 10 fours and three sixes in his 130-run innings to propel Australia to an imposing 307 for seven in 50 overs in the day-night game.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In reply to this daunting total, India were off to a disastrous start with the batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar getting dismissed for a duck &#8211; LBW off the aussie left arm pacer\u00a0Mitchell Johnson<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/content-ind.cricinfo.com\/db\/PICTURES\/CMS\/80200\/80255.jpg\" alt=\"Mitchell Johnson celebrates after dismissing Sachin Tendulkar for a Duck\" height=\"708\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The score read India 9\/1 &amp; then the rain started in full flow and brought the proceedings to a halt. Big Efforts were made by the groundsmen to dry the ground but in vain,<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/content-ind.cricinfo.com\/db\/PICTURES\/CMS\/80200\/80259.jpg\" alt=\"Groundsmen running to cover the pitch as the Australian Players walk off the field\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0as after the final inspection at 9.30 pm india time, the umpires decided that the outfield was too wet in order for the match to resume &amp; hence abandoned the match.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Australia won the toss &amp; elected to bat, only to see their captain Adam Gilchrist falling early\u00a0with a score of 14 runs\u00a0due to a splendid catch taken by Yuvraj Singh of Zaheer Khan, Brad Hodge joined Hayden at No.3 but couldnt last long as he was dismissed for a duck by Sreesanth.<\/p>\n<p>Sreesanth continued his rampage &amp; got 3 vital wickets including that of\u00a0 Andrew Symonds with Australia reeling at 90\/4 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/content-ind.cricinfo.com\/db\/PICTURES\/CMS\/80200\/80243.jpg\" alt=\"Sreesanth dismisses Symonds\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But just when India looked like dismissing Australia for a low score, Clarke and Brad Haddin shared a crucial 5th wicket partnership of 144 runs to bail Australia out of trouble, &amp; later James Hopes contributed a quick 37 off 25 deliveries to take the total beyond 300 which at one stage looked very difficult to acheive especially when Sreesanth had rocked the Aussie top order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Future Cup 2007 India vs Australia 1st ODI played at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Michael Clarke&rsquo;s career-best knock went in vain as rains forced the abandonment <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/2007\/10\/01\/clarke-dazzles-before-rain-plays-spoilsport\/\" title=\"Clarke Dazzles before Rain plays Spoilsport\"><span>Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[32,39,45,51,71,114,119,126,209,210,228,233,296,1351,480,520,555,569,588,646,647,682,693,731],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/puWvs-w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}