Date-stamped : 03 Nov93 - 05:15 Subject: India won by five wickets - 2nd one-day international Venue: Chandigar Date: January 21, 1993 Source: Independent India won the toss and aksed Englad to bat. Englad quickly lost 4 wicket for 49 off 19 overs. Pitch helped seamers well in the morning. All the three Indian seamers bowled well. However, when Azahruddin changed the bowling and introduced spinners, both Smith and Hick slowly guided Englad score to 132 before smith was dismmed by Kumbli for 42. England made 198 in the alloted 50 overs for the loss of six wickets. India started well with both Sidhu and Prabhakar. Prabhakar was the first one to be out for 36 at the score of 79. Sindhu played well while scoring 76 runs of 107 balls (with 5 fours and 2 sixes). His contribution earned him the man of the match award. Azharuddin also chipped in 36 runs of 44 balls. However, heros of first one-day international, Kambli and sachin, didn't fare well in this match. Amre and Kapil are the two batsman who were not out when the score reached 201. Contributed by The Management (help@cricinfo.com) The Guardian 22 January 1993 - England's early risers never in the hunt - David Hopps in Chandigarh. Second one-day international: India v England This is a capital shared by Punjab and Haryana and, as such, has two governors, two high courts and two excuses for every problem. But there was no disputing where the power lay in the second one-day international. The game went overwhelmingly to India, by five wickets with 4.5 overs to spare. Perhaps Punjab and Haryana should settle their differences by tossing a coin. Graham Gooch and Mohammad Azharuddin did just that yesterday, and when Gooch called incorrectly England's chances were virtually extinguished. A 9am start should prove acceptable enough further south, where a warmer climate is likely to burn off any early-morning mois- ture. Chandigarh was a different proposition. Only 100 miles from the snow-line in the foothills of the Himalayas, it possessed the bright and bracing feel of England in early spring. On a damp, uneven pitch England collapsed to 49 for four by the 19th over. A pained recovery to 198 for six gave them a glimmer of a chance, but Sidhu's appetite for the English bowlers remained insatiable and his 76 in easing conditions assured India of a victory which tied the six-match series at one-all. It was met with delight by a frenzied crowd of 30,000. A similar number were turned away, some of them after queueing for five hours and gaining nothing but an occasional beating from the pol- ice. Scores watched from trees. Predictably, the town which prefers two of everything is in the process of building a bigger ground. From the first ball of the match England recognised the immensi- ty of their task. Kapil Dev, who had played much of his early cricket on this ground, raced in to a full-throated roar and Gooch drove uppishly to extra cover where Amre just failed to brush up a half-volley catch. ''The toss was vital,'' said Keith Fletcher, England's team manager. ''It is very difficult to bat on a green, damp pitch when the ball is moving around. It was a bit of a lottery, but you just have to come to terms with the conditions.'' If the conditions were exacting, England's top order departed to some rum shots, beginning with Stewart, who cut a long hop from Kapil to Azharuddin at cover. Gooch looked dumbfounded at the result of Srinath's first delivery. As he tried to pull, the ball stopped on him and he knocked up a simple catch to Tendulkar off the splice. Gatting, closing the face, chipped up a return catch which Srinath scram- bled backwards to clutch on his knees with obvious relief. The first drinks interval arrived with England in need of stiff whiskies. Fairbrother's reputation as one of the world's most dangerous one-day batsmen has been forged on more reliable surfaces than this. Only the fact that Srinath had overstepped spared him a possible leg-before decision first ball. After struggling to lo- cate the next dozen he tried to nurdle Raju's left-arm spin square on the leg side and was trapped in front. Azharuddin's captaincy hardly turned the screw. For Prabhakar, one of the best swing bowlers in the world, not to complete his 10 overs was inexplicable. To bowl both spinners in tandem for more than an hour, admittedly only after Tendulkar had failed to convince as a fourth seamer, was criminal when the ball was still darting around for the seamers. Such licence assisted Hick and Smith in a rehabilitatory stand of 83 in 21 overs, Hick being the one English batsman to look secure in a forceful half-century. He had made 56 off 73 balls when he was bowled, searching for a big hit against Kapil over straight midwicket. Reeve's invention was clearly a novelty to Kapil, who persisted in bowling good-length balls in the closing overs and repeatedly fell prey to the sweep-pull-drive-slog which has become the all- rounder's trademark; it will henceforth be known as a reeve. India were untroubled. Prabhakar, an emergency opener, mixed dour defence with tail-end carts; Kambli, met by a 72 off-side field but only one slip, was dropped by the solitary close catch- er, Gatting, on nought and then chipped a return catch to Jarvis; and Amre hit with spirit. Azharuddin unveiled two onside drives that bespoke his class. At one end of the ground was a display of marigolds in the shape of an open hand; it is a long time since Indian hands have opened so warmly to him. But the stage belonged to Sidhu, the stiff-limbed, bearded man with the fairground hammer. Two blows over long-on against Salis- bury, who made an untidy one-day debut, took his number of sixes in five innings against England to 13. His 299 runs have come at an average of 99.66. DeFreitas, who took his first two wickets of the tour, prevented a three-figure average when he summoned Reeve up to slip and immediately found the edge. Contributed by The Management (help@cricinfo.com)