1996 Times of India Coca Cola

1996 Times of India Coca Cola

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Note Indians prove to be Messters not Masters By Sunil Gavaskar SHARJAH, January 9. India's hopes of staying alive in the Masters tourney were killed by a truly professional display by the Eng-land Masters. Although the Indian Masters got off to a brilliant start with Srikkanth and Binny they were not able to consolidate to get a big en-ough score, not only to stay in the tournament but also to beat England. Srikkanth, captaining the side, was well aware of the fact that the In-dian team needed him to stay at the crease for as many overs as possible and he tried to curb his natural incli-nation to attack. Yet, when the bad ball came along he simply used the old style of smashing it and then walking to the square leg umpire. Roger Binny, playing his first match of the event, took some time to sort out his footwork. He has been on the golf course more often than on a cricket pitch and there is no stroke on the backfoot in golf, but once he sorted it out he played three glorious shots in one over from Radford, who had his revenge getting him out caught behind off a slower delivery. Vengsarkar has not been able to recapture his form at the Masters in Bombay and so the onus of scoring runs, and that too quickly, was left to Patil and Yashpal Sharma. Both of them did a fine job for their team with some big hits and Yashpal in particu-lar played some great shots. The Indians were entitled to think that 235 was a let-down after the tre-mendous start they had been given by their openers. The pitch was very good to bat on, perhaps the best so far in the tournament, and so it was going to take some fine effort from the Indians to conain the English-men. Graham Gooch was back to open-ing the innings and he and Barnett got the team off to a flying start, even better than the Indians had got be-cause they simply carried on and on. Barnett got out when it looked like he was going for another century to make up for the duck he got against the West Indies. Their partnership destroyed any chances India had and the way they batted they made the In-dian bowling look very ordinary. The Indian fielding has never been one to draw oohs and aahs from the crowd and the display today was more for bahs and boos than any-thing else! Luckily for them Gooch went into an ultra attacking mode where he not only found gaps consis-tently but also hit some big ones out of the ground which did not test the fielders. By the 30th over of the innings the Indians were probably thankful that England had only 235 to chase be-cause they knew the match would get over quickly. Derek Randall, who has not had a big innings in the event used the op-portunity to get some practice. Towards the end, the Indians were going through the motions. They certainly made a mess of chasing a modest West Indies score in the first match and messed up again in scoring only 215 against Pa-kistan and then messed up the op-portunity provided by that positive opening start in this game. On this performance in the tour-nament, where they have lost every single game the nomenclature for the team should be changed to MES-STERS instead of Masters! - (Professional Management Group) ALWAYS Coca Cola CRICKET
Abstract This is an ad for Coca Cola. It is not stated who the manufactuer is. The ad contains a story titled 'Indians prove to be Messters not Masters' by Sunil Gavaskar, describing a cricket game between the Indian and West Indies teams. The ad contains an image of a bottle of Coca Cola, with the words 'always cricket' around it.