Scotland loses to India in one-day international cricket match

Thursday, August 16, 2007 

India defeated 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 (capt), R M Haq, G M Hamilton, N F I McCallum, C J O Smith (wkt), C M Wright, 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)

Sources

• "India tour of Ireland, England and Scotland: Only ODI: Scotland v India at Glasgow" — Cricinfo, August 16, 2007
• "One-day int'l Scotland v India" — BBC Sport, August 16, 2007