Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Recapping India's disastrous tour of 2011-12

<p>India will do well to remember the ill-fated Australian tour of 2011-12, when they crumbled in a heap and lost all four tests Down-Under.</p><h2>Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Recapping India's disastrous tour of 2011-12</h2><p><img alt="The-Border-Gavaskar-Trophy-over-the-years" src="http://static.dnaindia.com/sites/default/files/2014/11/27/287606-border-gavaskar-trophy-collage.jpg" width="600" /></p><p>Prelude to the 2014 Border-Gavaskar Trophy</p><p>Though Australian cricketer Phil Hughes' sudden demise may have shifted the spot-light from India's abandoned warm-up match against Cricket Australia XI, the fact that five batsmen including skipper Virat Kohli racked up half-centuries, highlights that the visitors are set to play ball, come the first test at Brisbane on December 4.</p><p><img alt="Phil Hughes lies prone after his fatal head injury in a Sheffield Shield match" src="http://static.dnaindia.com/sites/default/files/2014/11/27/287607-injury.jpg" width="600" /></p><p>Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Kohli,Wriddhiman Saha and Karn Sharma were the half-centurions for India, and though it may be too early to predict that the visitors would replicate the same against a full-strength Australian eleven, still the match has given them enough impetus to carry on the good form to Brisbane.</p><p>It was not long ago when a star-studded Indian team, which included the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Kohli and Mahendra Singh Dhoni made the long sojourn to Australia, post a routine series win over the West Indies on home soil.</p><p>Australia had fought enterprising battles against South Africa and New Zealand earlier, and the visiting Indian team was just the perfect requisite for them to get their stuttering Test form back on track.</p><p>India put in manful displays in their first two tour matches against a Chairman's XI side, which saw almost all their main batsmen get valuable runs under their belt.</p><p>Despite both games ending in dull draws, the stage was set for India to replicate the heroics of Saurav Ganguly and Anil Kumble's sides in the 2003-04 and 2007-08 tours.</p><p>When India faced their first real test against a full-strength Australian side at Melbourne, the end result of the match clearly indicated that the visitors had done an impromptu volt face, courtesy a meek performance.</p><p>The first Test match was just the start of India's woes throughout the tour, as Australia put in a buccaneering performance and outclassed the visitors with both bat and ball.</p><p>Despite a Zaheer Khan-led attack toiling away, Australia racked up 333 in their first essay and later shot out India for 282, thanks to Ben Hilfenhaus' five-wicket haul.</p><p>Though Virender Sehwag, Dravid and Tendulkar stepped up gears and took the game to the Aussies, with vital half-centuries, still the Indians handed over a 51-run lead to Michael Clarke's side, thus giving the home side the edge.</p><p>As Australia were restricted to a modest 240 in the second innings, James Pattinson's heroics with the ball ensured that India rolled up without a fight and lost by 122 runs.</p><p>None of the Indian batsmen showed real application against the Australian pacers, and the manner in which they collapsed set alarm bells ringing for the rest of the tour.</p><p>The win was just the first installement in Australia's brilliant run during the rest of the series and once again exposed India's batting frailities against top-class pace bowling.</p><p>Come Sydney, and Pattinson and Hilfenhaus had an ally in Peter Siddle this time around, as the trio compounded India's misery by shooting them out for a paltry 191.</p><p>An already demoralised India, failed to shrug off the demons of Melbourne as apart from Dhoni's sedate half-century, and Tendulkar's 41, none of them showed even an iota of a fightback.</p><p>It was the same old story repeated at the SCG as the Australian pacers once again got on top of India's batting by the scruff, and polished them off in a jiffy.</p><p>Clarke later took center stage with an epic knock of 329, and was suitably aided by centuries from Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey, thus setting India a mountain to climb.</p><p>Australia finished at a mammoth 659 for 4, and their declaration meant that India were well and truly out of the game.</p><p>The second innings was probably India's best ever in the series, as their batsmen fought toe-to-toe with the Aussies, in their quest to salvage the match.</p><p>Salvage they did not, but half-centuries from Gautam Gambhir, Tendulkar, Laxman and Ravichandran Ashwin ensured that India saved face and finished at 400, despite enduring a 68-run loss.</p><p>That loss effectively ended India's hopes of winning the series, and made sure that Dhoni's men needed a minor miracle if they were to win the remaining two games.</p><p>The WACA ground at Perth invokes fond memories for most Indian cricket fans, thanks to Tendulkar's fine 114 long ago in 1992, and also the 72-run humbling India alloted to the Aussies during the 2007-08 tour.</p><p>Though the terror ground at Perth presented India an opportunity to claw back in the series and show some real mettle, there was no encore of either 1992 or 2007-08, as the visitors were outclassed by Hilfenhaus and Siddle and were all-out for 161, in the first innings.</p><p>The Aussie pace duo stole the show again with figures of 4 for 43 and 3 for 42, and Kohli played lone-ranger for India with a gritty 44.</p><p>The Australian innings saw David Warner's whirlwind 180 take India's bowling to the cleaners and by the time the home side finished at 360, partly due to Umesh Yadav's battling five-wicket haul, the game was well and truly snatched away from Dhoni's side.</p><p>It was the same old story in India's second-innings as Hilfenhaus and Siddle shared seven wickets amongst them, and skittled out the visitors for a meagre 171, thus giving Australia the match by 37 runs.</p><p>Though Kohli stood tall amongst the ruins with a fine 75, and Dravid did his best to anchor the batting with a composed 47, still the Aussie bowling proved too hot to handle for the rest of the Indian batsmen, as they collapsed in a heap and handed over the series to Australia.</p><p>So was it well and truly game over for India at the WACA?</p><p>Come game four at the Adelaide Oval and India were already a beaten and beleagured side by that time, with innumerable questions being raised over Dhoni's captaincy and also their failure to shed off the 'subcontinental tigers' tag.</p><p>With the series already lost to the rampaging Aussies, India had nothing but pride to play for at Adelaide, and looked to have put their best foot on when they reduced Australia to 84 for 3 in the first innings.</p><p>But as they say, cometh the hour and cometh the men, and it was Ponting and Clarke who tormented India, thanks to their marathon knocks of 221 and 210, which shut the door on the visitors once and for all.</p><p>India's bowling was run ragged by the duo and as Australia finished at a huge 604 for 7, the visitors resembled pieces of papers stuck in a gale.</p><p>Siddle came back to torment India with another terrific bowling which yielded him five-wickets and it was left to Kohli once more to play hero, with a timely 116.</p><p>Kohli's knock ensured that India saved face with a score of 272, and their woes continued as Australia decided to bat on without ensuring a follow-on.</p><p>The Aussies scored a quick 167 in the second essay, and by the time Ponting and Brad Haddin walked off into the pavilion, India were set a near impossible task of chasing down 499.</p><p>Despite Sehwag's soldiering 62, spinner Nathan Lyon and pace-gun Ryan Harris closed out India for 201, thus making true a 4-0 series whitewash for Australia, and ending a truly miserable tour Down-Under for Dhoni's men.</p><p>As the dust settles post Hughes' death and also the fact that India will face a completely different Australian outfit, come the Brisbane test, still darkening memories of 2011-12 will do well enough to pep up India, as they embarg on their quest to win their first ever test-series Down-Under and etch their names in cricketing history.</p><p>Now only time will tell as to whether India can live up to the challenge posed by Australia's fiery pace-men in the four-test series, or will they turn in a Jekyll-Hyde performance, akin to the one they produced during that ill-fated tour of 2011-12.</p>

Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Recapping India's disastrous tour of 2011-12

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India v/s Australia ODI, Tri-series, Melbourne: Australia win with just six balls to spare

<p>India had almost turned the game on its head, and Bhuvneshwar had played a huge part in it, until that poor, poor 49th over. Or maybe Australia were just holding it back for the end? Two close wins now for Australia. It really should have ended long ago.</p><p><img alt="" src="http://static.dnaindia.com/sites/default/files/2015/01/18/302823-shane-watson-2.jpg" width="600" /></p><p>Over 49</p><p>FOUR! THAT IS VICTORY FOR AUSTRALIA! What a terrible over from Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Slightly down leg side and Faulkner sweeps it past short fine leg! Four and Australia have won. Kumar has conceded 16 off the 49th over.</p><p>Biffed hard down the ground, only a single as it went quickly to the fielder. 3 needed off 7 balls.</p><p>Wide ball! 8 off nine. And the next ball is on middle and smashed for a boundary through covers. Kumar has bowled so well all day, but he has bowled a poor second last over.</p><p>Faulkner gives room, Kumar follows him. Thrashed into the off side, Dhawan misses a direct hit. They run a single. A direct hit and the batsman was gone.</p><p>Swung hard into the leg side, and four! Bad ball from Kumar, almost a half-tracker. Inexcusable at this stage. 10 needed off 10.</p><p>Almost a dot ball, Kumar misfields and they get 1. 14 off 11.</p><p>Kumar will bowl out here. He will bowl the crucial 49th over.</p><p>Over 48</p><p>Dot ball again! Just 5 off the over. Australia need 15 off 12. How did it come down to this?</p><p>Beautiful delivery, Faulkner played across and missed, huge appeal. Should have been out. He was caught in front, should have hit middle and leg.</p><p>Driven through covers! The pressure is off. Very good chase and stop. 17 off 16.</p><p>Dot ball. 20 off 17.</p><p>Over 47</p><p>And it ends as a maiden! 20 needed off 18 balls. A wicket maiden shared by Shami and Kumar, but it was Kumar who did most of the damage.</p><p>Dot ball. Every dot ball is being cheered. Why did Dhoni hide Kumar? 20 needed off 20. Now 20 off 19. No runs off the over so far.</p><p>OUT! Slower delivery is king today! Slow, short ball, Maxwell spoons a simple caught and bowled to Bhuvneshwar. Australia are tottering. 20 needed, 21 balls, 4 wickets in hand.</p><p>Bhuvneshwar Kumar will bowl in place of Shami, who's gone off. First ball is a swing and a miss.</p><p>Shami to bowl his ninth. Still no sign of Bhuvneshwar. First ball is a yorker outside off and Maxwell misses. And now Shami has pulled up. It might be a hamstring. The physio is out. We're gonna take a break.</p><p>Over 46</p><p>Maxwell goes in the air, doesn't time it well, lands away from the fielder running out from cover. Two runs. Six off the over, 20 needed off 24 balls.</p><p>Axar Patel is coming in to bowl - a questionable tactic from Dhoni. Why not get Kumar in? Maxwell loves the spinners.</p><p>Over 45</p><p>End of the over, just one off it. Australia 242/5 off 45 overs; need 26 off 30.</p><p>Brilliant yorker! Right in the blockhole and Maxwell had to do everything he ever could to keep it out. Now a fast searing delivery into Maxwell and he defends awkwardly. Where was Yadav for the first 75% of the Australian innings?</p><p>Yadav continues, and Haddin wisely turns over the strike to Maxwell, who won't look for an encore against Yadav.</p><p>Over 44</p><p>SIX! And just like that, Maxwell has decided the fun is over for India. A six into the stands and then a slogged boundary straight down the ground. 27 needed off 36. A cakewalk. But why are Kumar's two overs left behind?</p><p>Australia were so far ahead in the game than even after losing three quick wickets they still have noses in front. 37 off 39 is no big deal, but the momentum has shifted to India. Now an appeal for caught behind, declined.</p><p>OUT! Bailey is out stumped! Australia, what are you doing? R Ashwin is ecstatic, and the Indians in the crowd, who constitute about 70% of it, can't believe it. Australia 230/5.</p><p>Over 43</p><p>Short ball coming into the body, and the batsman flicks it over the slips. Third man comes running in and only a single is scored. Decent over from Umesh, just three of it. 39 needed from 42, but surely Australia are pretending.</p><p>Umesh Yadav is into his ninth over and has bowled two dot balls, but followed it up with a wide. Nevertheless, Australia seem to be trying to make it tough for themselves.</p><p>Komal is a hopeful fan, like millions of others:</p><p>Over 42</p><p>There comes the reverse sweep! But it fetches nothing for Maxwell. Three off an Ashwin over. Australia need 42 from 48 balls.</p><p>We are subjected to some inconsequential highlights of how Glenn Maxwell used the reverse sweep effectively against....hold your breath....Zimbabwe. Oh, and it's Ashwin bowling. The Indians in the crowd are cheering dot balls like its 42 needed off 15 balls.</p><p>Over 41</p><p>Australia 223/4 after 41 overs; 45 needed off 54 balls.</p><p>Crazy short ball from Yadav, it came seaming in hard and Bailey took his eyes off. The ball hit Bailey's bat which was hanging like a periscope, but did not go to hand. The fifth ball is short again, soars over Maxwel's head and is called a wide.</p><p>OUT! Another one goes! Is there still life in this game? It is Finch now, on 96. He gets a tame outside edge which is safely pouched by Dhoni. Australia 219/4.</p><p>Umesh Yadav comes back and starts with a wide so far down leg it should have been called two wides.</p><p>Over 40</p><p>Smith got the ball high on the bat. Is the huddle a World Cup style statement? It's back again and we are less than a month from the Cup. Australia 217/3 after 40 overs.</p><p>OUT! Slower delivery from Shami, Smith plays a strange-looking pull, and straight into the hands of short midwicket. Smith is gone for 47. Australia 216/3.</p><p>Shami fires in a fast, short ball and Finch misses with the pull. Now a yorker is dug in outside off and no run is scored.</p><p>Over 39</p><p>Seven off the over. Australia 215/2 after 39 overs. Just 53 needed off 66 balls, 8 wickets in hand.</p><p>Apart from Axar Patel and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, all Indian bowlers have been very expensive. Oh, and Axar just got stroked through the off side for four. 55 needed off 70 balls.</p><p>Over 38</p><p>Now, Mohammad Shami is providing some false hope to Indian fans by giving away just two runs off the 38th over. 208/2.</p><p>Over 37</p><p>Six runs get milked off the over. Australia 206/2 off 37 overs.</p><p>The Indian team went into a huddle during the break. Good to watch bt may just be too late. Axar Patel comes back. Can he get three quick wickets?</p><p>Over 36</p><p>Smith gets a wide yorker which he digs out to third man. Finch is on 89. Smith is 38 off 39. The fourth Australian fifty has come in just 39 balls. Australia 200/2 after 36 overs, good over by the going standards from Shami.</p><p>And the barbs continue to come in:</p><p>Australia have decided to take the batting powerplay with only 71 runs needed. Shami is 0/37 off 5.1 overs. There is no way India are winning this match except for a miracle.</p><p>Over 34</p><p>Following the six, all Australia need is some milking. Which continues in the form of a run a ball. Just 77 needed off 96 balls now with 8 wickets in hand. Australia 191/2 after 34 overs.</p><p>India's defences are collapsing fast. At least I could finish work early. Raina gives the ball plenty of air, half-volley right in the slot for Finch, who swings a six straight down the ground.</p><p>Over 33</p><p>Inexplicably, Umesh Yadav (1/34) has been brought back. He is now down to conceding a run a ball. Full on the legs, tickled away for four through fine leg. Australia 177/2 after 33 overs.</p><p>Over 32</p><p>He bowls a wide first up. And then he gets smacked for six over long on. Full swing of the arms, and Finch has now shaken off his bad form courtesy some mediocre Indian bowling. 10 runs off the over, Australia 170/2.</p><p>Not surprisingly, the team is earning flak on Twitter:</p><p>Time to try something different. Dhoni could have been reading out of a mundane cricket coaching manual. Suresh Raina is introduced.</p><p>Over 31</p><p>Five off the over. Australia 160/2 after 31 overs.</p><p>Dhoni is now standing up to the stumps as Kumar enters his eighth over. He's been India's best bowler and yet he's already into his eighth.</p><p>Over 30</p><p>End of the over. Too expensive for India. 155/2 after 30 overs, Australia.</p><p>Four. Thick edge off a drive from Finch finds the boundary. Australia reach 150. Now another short ball, too wide, and cut away. Cannot fathom why Ashwin is bowling his 7th over on the trot. Clearly, he's losing control.</p><p>Over 28</p><p>Ashwin continues his trundling spin, into his 6th over. Now he decieves Finch with spin but with no reward. Five runs off the over, Aus 139/2 after 28.</p><p>Over 27</p><p>Last ball of Shami's over gets viciously swivel-pulled, but ends up at deep square leg. Just one. 134/2 off 27 overs.</p><p>Steve Smith welcomes Mohammad Shami into his next over with a beautiful straight drive for four.</p><p>Meanwhile, you can read what Ian Chappell feels about Australia's World Cup prospects.</p><p>Over 26</p><p>Ashwin is now into his fifth over. This is the problem with Dhoni's captaincy. His bowling changes are conventional and he does not fully appreciate the value of short spells. Australia 127/2 after 26 overs.</p><p>Over 25</p><p>Aaron Finch reaches his 6th ODI fifty, off 80 balls. It's been hard work but it's paid off. On drive off the last ball and a couple results. Australia are 124/2 at the halfway stage.</p><p>Mohammad Shami comes in to bowl, replacing Axar Patel and immediately gets milked for a couple.</p><p>Over 24</p><p>For the first time the Aussie run rate is below 5 an over. Four dot balls from Ashwin so far. Now a direct hit at the batsman's end, but Finch is safe. Two off the over, Australia 117/2 off 24.</p><p>Over 23</p><p>Steve Smith comes in. He doesn't have a great ODI record. Down the track of the last ball but can't get it away. Australia 115/2 off 23 overs.</p><p>The idea of keeping Patel on has worked. Flipper from Axar, Watson went for an expansive sweep, missed and the ball hit home. Bowled. Australia 115/2.</p><p>Over 22</p><p>Two runs off the first four balls. Australia are not in top gear, but they continue to milk the Indian bowling. And now a boundary to deep cover. Finch advances down the track off the last ball and gets one. 112/1.</p><p>Ashwin continues after a fifth consecutve Axar over, which fetched 3 runs.</p><p>Over 20</p><p>Good over so far, 2 off 5 balls, and the fifth nearly resulted in a run out. Alright, so Ashwin makes amends for his first over by conceding 2 off the second. 102/1 after 20 overs. India were 89/3 at this stage.</p><p>R Ashwin, introduced into the attack in the 18th over, will bowl his second.</p><p>Over 19</p><p>Finch finally gets a run of the fifth ball, moving to 34 off 62 balls. It has been a struggle for Finch, but India's mediocre bowling has ensured he at least stays at the crease. Australia 100/1 after 19 overs.</p><p>Axar Patel continues with his fourth over, and immediately beats Finch who went for a late cut.</p><p>Over 17</p><p>Ooh...Finch was nearly foxed in the flight. Next ball, he is foxed again and there's an appeal which is turned down by the umpire. Australia 88/1 after 17 overs.</p><p>First two balls of Axar's third over get milked for two, and he makes a big noise on the third though the batsman was in no danger. Now four balls for three.</p><p>Over 16</p><p>The commentators take time out to show us Wasim Akram's 5/21 in Melbourne in 1985. He was very, very young, and sent Aussie stumps flying. Can't expect the same from Yadav though. Aussies 85/1 after 16 overs.</p><p>Umesh Yadav will bowl despite his profligacy, and he will bowl two dot balls first up. The third ball though, just sits up for Watson to hit and he crashes it through point for four with the force of a bullet.</p><p>Over 15</p><p>Six runs off the fifteenth over which was bowled by Axar Patel. Australia 78/1.</p><p>Over 14</p><p>Take out Finch (26 off 47) and Australia have been on fire. I say this even as Watson cuts a short ball outside off to the third man boundary. Australia 72/1 after 14 overs.</p><p>Yadav doesn't learn from his own performance. Follows up a maiden with a short, wide ball that Watson accepts with ease, and dispatches to the cover boundary.</p><p>Over 13</p><p>Two dot balls and then another short one, which fetches only one. Required run rate is five and a half. End of Patel's first. 62/1 after 13 overs.</p><p>Axar Patel comes in to bowl and is promptly greeted with a boundary from Watson's bat. That ball was short and there for the cut.</p><p>Over 12</p><p>Things have slowed down considerably after Warner's dismissal. Just a single off the last over and now five dot balls. And now Finch has been beaten with the last ball. Australia 57/1 after 12 overs.</p><p>Over 10</p><p>Shane Watson is the new batsman in, and he lets his first ball go. But now he hits an unconvincing on drive which goes for four. Australia 56/1 after 10 overs.</p><p>OUT! Warner has fallen and he is a victim of his own aggression. Short, effort ball from Umesh Yadav, and Warner tried to pull it. Got big on him quickly, and he spooned a top edge to cover. Australia 51/1.</p><p>Over 8</p><p>Shami has already conceded nine off the over including a boundary. Make it 11. Australia motoring along at 49/0 after 8 overs.</p><p>Over 7</p><p>Kohli scores with a direct hit as David Warner tries to scramble back after trying a non existent single. The third umpire is called in but it's not out. Australia 38/0 after 7 overs.</p><p>Over 6</p><p>Good over so far from Shami. Just 4 off it. Shami is hitting the early 140s in pace with consistency. No run off the last ball, Australia 34/0 after 6 overs.</p><p>After a good fifth over from Bhuvneshwar, Shami is back for his second.</p><p>Over 4</p><p>Another boundary. Short again, and Warner flicks it high into the leg side for four. Australia 29/0 after 4 overs.</p><p>First change already on for India. Mohammad Shami to bowl. And the first ball is short and outside leg stump, duly pulled away for four by Warner. The second is wide.</p><p>Over 3</p><p>Kumar tries to repair Aaron's damage, concedes just 2 off the third over. Australia 20/0 after 3 overs.</p><p>Over 2</p><p>Now a wide, full ball and beautifully driven by Finch for four. Australia 18/0 after 2 overs.</p><p>Umesh Yadav is the new ball bowler along with Kumar, and he begins to leak runs. Fourth ball of the over flies away to third man for four, and the fifth is a wide.</p><p>Over 1</p><p>Australia 5/0 after 1 over.</p><p>The Australian openers have come out to bat. It's Finch and Warner. The target is 268. Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the bowler for India. Wide off the fourth ball.</p><p>267/8 is a par score in Melbourne. India will have to bowl well to win the match. It was only the Rohit Sharma-Suresh Raina partnership that was extremely fluent. Otherwise, India struggled throughout. Where would they be without Rohit's 138? And by the way, the innings has lasted four hours.</p><p>Over 50</p><p>Moves away from the stump, misses, ball sails over the stumps, wicketkeeper shies, misses too, and they get a single. India end on 267/8 off 50 overs, about 25 runs short of where they would like to be.</p><p>Shami has another wild swing but only gets....one run. Last ball coming up.</p><p>Two runs off three balls so far. India have scored just 58 off 57 balls in the last ten overs. Make that 59 off 58.</p><p>Over 49</p><p>OUT! They are falling fast. Bhuvneshwar Kumar is bowled, off a full toss, first ball. And Starc has 6/43. Take him away and its 219/2. No run off the last ball to Shami. What a spell of fast bowling. India 262/8 after 49 overs.</p><p>OUT! Rohit Sharma's innings is over. It is Mitchell Starc's 5th wicket. Lowish full toss, smashed straight to midwicket. But a brilliant innings. 138 off 139.</p><p>Ashwin goes for a Dilscoop or something, ends up way outside off and the ball hits his leg for one leg bye.</p><p>Dropped. Ashwin makes room, miscues over gully-point. Fielder runs in from the deep but spoons it. Two runs. Now another miscue and another couple.</p><p>Over 48</p><p>Short ball outside off, smashed to midwicket, whose direct hit misses. Rohit was nowhere in the frame. Single off the last ball. 257/6 off 48 overs.</p><p>Sharma moves outside leg, slower short ball, can only get a single to deep midwicket. Leg bye off the fourth ball. India need a boundary.</p><p>Over 47</p><p>Slower ball. This is getting tiring here. 1 run scored. Laboured single off the 5th ball. SIX off the last ball! Swings hard to a good length ball, ball crosses the deep midwicket boundary. India 252/6 after 47 overs. Rohit Sharma 136 off 136.</p><p>Yet another slower one and nothing Ashwin can do about it. Single off the second. Sharma comes down the track, big heave, slower ball, no run.</p><p>Over 46</p><p>Mitchell Starc has taken 4/39 off his nine overs.</p><p>Three runs off the first two balls. Four off three. Five off four. Then a dot ball. Single off the last. Six off the over. 243/6 after 46 overs.</p><p>Over 45</p><p>R Ashwin is the new batsman, and plays a dot ball. India are yet to score a run this over. And it ends in a wicket maiden! In the 45th over.</p><p>OUT! Gone. Out for a duck. India are losing their way in Melbourne. Late swinging yorker. LBW. 237/6. What does Rohit Sharma do now?</p><p>Axar Patel has come in. Swing and a miss off the first ball.</p><p>But he's OUT! Bowled. Mitchell Starc induces Dhoni to play on to his stumps, it was the slower one again. India 237/5.</p><p>Ten runs from the previous over. Rohit Sharma continues to do most of the hitting. Dhoni needs to step up. 19 off 30 balls.</p><p>Over 43</p><p>Sharma gets bat on ball and it goes fine to third man for four. Good shot, the delivery was not wide outside off from Starc. India 227/4 after 43 overs.</p><p>Over 42</p><p>India run a very quick two to manage 8 off the over. 219/4.</p><p>That is a let off. A very wide ball fetches three runs for India. Aussies are making it tough for India by slowing down the pace of the ball though.</p><p>India are still being content to score singles. When will they go for an all-out attack? Dhoni pulls through square leg but scores just a single.</p><p>Over 41</p><p>India need to accelerate now. Rohit misses a slower ball from James Faulkner and then scores a single on the leg side. India 211/4 after 41.</p><p>Over 40</p><p>Seven from the over as Dhoni continues to block. India 206/4 from 40 overs. The fourth batch of 10 overs has fetched 53/1.</p><p>Rohit Sharma continues to go bonkers at the MCG. 200 up for India and then a short ball is pulled for four over midwicket.</p><p>Over 39</p><p>This is the last over of the batting powerplay. It hasn't worked out for India as they would have liked it to. Just 19 off 29 balls for the wicket of Raina. And 19 off 30. India 199/4 after 39 overs.</p><p>Over 37</p><p>Just two off the over though. India 192/4 after 37 overs.</p><p>Edged to third man, but its a CENTURY FOR ROHIT SHARMA. Extremely fluent century, full of incredible strokes and sedate batting in between.</p><p>Over 36</p><p>Dhoni has taken the cover off the ball with a full blooded backfoot drive. Four. It was through the infield before you could say Dhoni. India 190/4 and Rohit will be on strike next over.</p><p>MS Dhoni is the new man in, but Rohit Sharma is on strike. Moves to 99 off the second ball.</p><p>Over 35</p><p>OUT! Raina has clobbered a good length ball straight into the hands of mid on. Didn't time it well, India lose their fourth at an inopportune time. Raina made 51. India 185/4 after 35 overs.</p><p>Five singles off the over so far, and Rohit moves on to 98.</p><p>India have taken the batting powerplay, and Raina reaches a half century. His first in Australia.</p><p>Over 34</p><p>Just three runs off the over though. India 180/3.</p><p>Shane Watson comes back into the attack and bowls a wide. Suresh Raina is now one short of fifty. On an Australian pitch. Let that sink in.</p><p>Manjrekar and Dravid have some competition:</p><p>Over 33</p><p>Rohit Sharma moves into the 90s, but with luck. Inside edge, misses the stumps and four to fine leg. Then a late cut to third man for four. India 177/3, and Sharma 94 off 100 balls after 33 overs.</p><p>Rare swing and a miss from Raina. Rare for the last 15 overs or so. Manjrekar and Dravid on commentary, content to discuss India's new jersey and offer a historical perspective instead of Raina's batting.</p><p>Over 32</p><p>Last ball slammed for four by Rohit, India move to 166/3 off 32.</p><p>India have moved to 159/3. Rohit has reached 80 in what must be counted as one of his best innings. India will look for 275+ from here.</p><p>Over 31</p><p>India are now also challenging Sandhu's throwing arm. Quick couple to end the over, 159/3. 100 run partnership up.</p><p>Australia are slowly losing control as India grow in confidence. First a slower delivery that ended as a wide outside leg, then a throat-high full toss to Raina that gets called a no-ball for height.</p><p>Over 30</p><p>Down the track comes Raina, Sandhu bowls short, Raina is halfway down, then makes a dive to get back in the crease and defeat the direct hit. India 153/3 after 30 overs. Third group of 10 overs fetches 64 runs for no wicket.</p><p>Sandhu continues to bowl short and get punished via pulling and swivelling. Another boundary as Raina inches up to 43.</p><p>Over 29</p><p>India 148/3 after 29 overs.</p><p>India are starting to take on the bowling now. The spinner Glenn Maxwell is being shown aggression. Inside out over cover, miscued over point, misfield results in a boundary. Run rate creeps over 5.</p><p>Over 28</p><p>Sharma pulls out another swivel pull, this time along the ground. However, it slows down near the boundary and they run three. Next delivery is short, wide outside leg and sits up. Raina pulls for four. India 139/3 after 28.</p><p>India have recovered well after three early wickets, and are now content to milk the bowling on a benign wicket. A good crowd has flowed in by now. Gurinder Sandhu continues to toil. He has 1/15 from 4.4 overs so far.</p><p>Over 27</p><p>Yet another Rohit Sharma special shot on the offside. Lofted over extra cover for four. No bowler has been spared his brilliance today. India 128/3 after 27 overs.</p><p>Over 26</p><p>Huge appeal for LBW against Rohit, and given not out. He didn't hit it. Then a run out chance goes abegging. India 123/3 at the end of the over.</p><p>Now the batsmen pinch a quick single. Lovely, sunny morning in Melbourne.</p><p>Gurinder Sandhu is back, and is being compared to Tom Moody on commentary. There's a delay as Raina wants something from the dressing room or trainer or physio. He's on 26. Raina, not the physio.</p><p>People are unhappy with Warner's sledging:</p><p>Over 25</p><p>Back-of-the-hand slower ball from Faulkner, Rohit went for a Dilscoop or something, missed and earned the ire of the commentators. Three slower deliveries on the trot now. India 121/3 after 25 overs.</p><p>Over 24</p><p>Shane Watson has slowly lost his line. The altercation has not ended yet. India continue to motor along. Oh, and then an outside edge. Landed just beyond point. India 117/3 after 24.</p><p>David Warner has started a little altercation with Rohit Sharma. Off the overthrow off the last ball of the previous over. Warner got angry for some reason. Raina had a hand on Warner's shoulder.</p><p>Over 23</p><p>SIX! He gets to a half century with a six, Rohit Sharma. What great batting from Rohit today. First a shimmy down the track and a loft over wide long on, then a stunning on drive for two. India 113/3 after 23 overs.</p><p>Over 22</p><p>The pitch is starting to really flatten out. India are pulling with ease of late. India 104/3 after 22.</p><p>Watson bowls on middle and leg and Raina flicks it beautifully through midwicket for four. 100 up. Followed by some wild running between the wickets.</p><p>Over 21</p><p>Raina plays and misses outside off stump. Could be the third such dismissal today. India 96/3 after 21 overs.</p><p>Rohit Sharma is playing some incredible shots today. Now he swivel pulls Cummins to fine leg for four. Takes him to 47. Seems to be batting on a different wicket.</p><p>Over 20</p><p>Just one off the next five balls after the boundary. 89/3 after 20 overs. 45/2 and 44/1 in 10-over blocks so far for India.</p><p>Four. Raina takes a big front stride and lifts Watson for four over long on. Then another mix up in running and a direct hit, but Rohit Sharma was back.</p><p>Meanwhile, Indian fans on Twitter are none too pleased with India's start:</p><p>Over 19</p><p>After a sedate 10 balls or so, Raina pulls Cummins for four. The pitch is benign and the ball didn't rise as much as Cummins would have liked. Wide called off the next ball, a little harsh. India 84/3 after 19 overs.</p><p>Pat Cummins comes back for another spell. Bailey is preferring to give his bowlers short spells instead of one six or seven over spell.</p><p>Over 18</p><p>Five singles off a Shane Watson over. India 77/3.</p><p>Over 17</p><p>What is worrying is that India have lost three early wickets, not of good balls, but of callous batting on a benign wicket. India 72/3 after 16 overs.</p><p>Gavaskar was explaining how Rohit gets aggressive if he bats 60 balls in an ODI innings, and Rohit just pulled Starc for six over square leg. Now goes after a wide delivery and misses. Weird batsman.</p><p>10:11 IST Sunday, 18 January 2015</p><p>India have lost three big wickets in the first part of their innings. While Rohit is still looking in good touch, the top order has been blown away. Survival is going to be difficult here for India. They need a century from Rohit.</p><p>Over 15</p><p>Rohit manages to negotiate the last ball. Maiden over. India 62/3 after 15 overs, and it's drinks.</p><p>Four dot balls of the over. Now five dot balls. Good mix of deliveries from Starc here. Short balls, then fuller ones. One angling in, one going out.</p><p>Mitchell Starc returns for his second spell, as India's newfound confusion between the wickets continues.</p><p>Over 14</p><p>Some mix up in the middle now, India almost had a run out, but then decided to back out of the second run. 62/3 after 14.</p><p>India's top order has been blown out, except Rohit. Their best batsmen are back in the pavilion. The ones coming in are not great players of bounce. India is in big trouble in Melbourne. Wasim Akram and Sunil Gavaskar on commentary now.</p><p>I couldn't have put it better:</p><p>Over 13</p><p>OUT! Virat Kohli is gone, India are in big trouble now. Went for the pull, was too late on the shot and neither front foot nor back foot. India 59/3. Very unexpected of Kohli. India 59/3 after 13 overs as Raina walks in.</p><p>James Faulkner is now bowling around the wicket to Kohli.</p><p>Over 12</p><p>Three runs off the 12th over, India 56/2.</p><p>Shane Watson comes on to bowl. Lots of extra bounce and Rohit plays a strange shot to third man.</p><p>Over 11</p><p>India 53/2 after 11 overs.</p><p>James Faulkner has replaced Pat Cummins in bowling. Straight drive from Kohli, who has faced just seven balls yet. Good stop at mid off, and they get just two instead of four. India are starting to motor on at the MCG.</p><p>Direct hit from Smith as Kohli was bustling back for the second. Umpire Dharmasena calls for the third umpire after hesistating a bit. It's not out, as he and we suspected.</p><p>Over 10</p><p>Rohit is batting very fluently today, in a different league to the other Indian batsmen. Eight off the over, India 45/2 after 10 overs.</p><p>Rohit dances down the track to Gurinder now, and gets two in the deep. Two balls later, Gurinder bowls a wide.</p><p>Over 9</p><p>Rohit Sharma has hit some lovely boundaries today. Here's another one, slightly overpitched from Pat Cummins and beautiful cover drive from Sharma. Little foot movement but the timing was great. India 41/1 after 9 overs.</p><p>Over 8</p><p>Virat Kohli walks in; Manjrekar says its one position too late. Dravid agrees. India 36/2 after 8 overs.</p><p>OUT! Dravid said India have got off to a good start, and here goes Rahane before he can complete his sentence. Similar dismissal to Dhawan, but caught by keeper. India 33/2. Sandhu gets his first international wicket.</p><p>Over 7</p><p>Here's another wide ball which is called a wide. Harsha Bhogle tells us that Rahul Dravid will soon make his debut as an ODI commentator even as Rahane refuses to meddle with the last delivery. India 32/1.</p><p>Pat Cummins continues. Rohit lets go off a wide ball (which is not called wide) and then pulls out of a hook shot at the last moment. He follows it up by playing and missing outside off. Strange batsman.</p><p>Over 6</p><p>Just one run from Sandhu's first international over. India 30/1 after six.</p><p>Medium pacer Gurinder Sandhu bowls his first over in international cricket. Ugly, looping action. Second ball just sits up on Rohit a bit, but he manages to play it softly to point.</p><p>Over 5</p><p>Rahane slashes over point again off the last ball of the over, but not quite the timing this time. India 29/1 after 5 overs.</p><p>Starc is bowling a relatively quiet over to Rahane after Rohit's brilliance last over.</p><p>Let's hope Miss Mischief is right:</p><p>Over 4</p><p>He lets go of the last ball wisely. India are suddenly 26/1 after 4 overs.</p><p>What a shot. Beautiful, straight six from Rohit, just lifted it on the up, fast bowler crashed down the ground for six. Then India run four off the next ball.</p><p>Over 3</p><p>Rahane chips the ball in the air just wide of point. Beautiful looking shot though a bit risky. India's first boundary. India 15/1 after 3 overs.</p><p>Inside edge goes for four from Rohit. That was a centimetre away from the stumps.</p><p>Over 2</p><p>After 2 overs, India are 6/1.</p><p>Rahane plays and misses the third ball of the over as India continue to struggle. Lots of inside edges happening this over. India yet to get a ball in the middle of the bat.</p><p>Over 1</p><p>Ajinkya Rahane has come out to bat. Leg bye last ball. India 4/1 after 1 over.</p><p>OUT! Dhawan is out, he has been psyched out. Swinging ball outside off stump and Dhawan goes for an expansive drive, instead edges it to slip. India 3/1.</p><p>The first three balls have been interesting. One outside edge by Dhawan and then a very close LBW shout which would have gone on to hit the stumps.</p><p>8:52 IST Sunday, 18 January 2015</p><p>Shikhar Dhawan opening with Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane will bat in the middle order.</p><p>8:31 IST Sunday, 18 January 2015</p><p>India have won the toss and will bat first. Dhoni says the dew factor comes into play in day-night games. Hopes to use this as good preparation for the World Cup.</p><p>India have left out Ishant and Jadeja due to injuries. Axar Patel replaces Jadeja and Bhuvneshwar, Shami and Umesh Yadav are the quick bowlers.</p><p>For Australia, India-born Gurinder Sandhu comes in.</p><p>8:27 IST Sunday, 18 January 2015</p><p>Sunil Gavaskar says the pitch is flat with no sign of grass. Quite unusual for Melbourne. India should bat first if they win the toss.</p><p>8:10 IST Sunday, 18 January 2015</p><p>Welcome to the LIVE coverage of the 1st ODI between India and Australia in the Carlton Mid Tri Series in Melbourne.</p><p>MS Dhoni has one eye on the series and another on the World Cup. He is also looking at India's fitness problems from the corner of his eyes. Ishant Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja have still not recovered from injuries, or are being given some extra rest to keep them fit for the World Cup.</p><p>India-Australia ODI encounters have always been thrilling, but Dhoni is a man with one hand on the ODI captaincy and the other still on the World Cup trophy he won in 2011. For India and Dhoni, this tri series (with England as the third team) is much like a dress rehearsal for defending the trophy next month.</p><p>Australia on the other hand are a very confident side after having beaten England in the first ODI and won a Test series against India 2-0 before that. The home side though is also fretting over the fitness of Mitchell Marsh and Michael Clarke. Warner, who is rumoured to be injured, might just be forced to open anyway.</p>

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<p>OUT...or is it? Short, slow ball, Dhawan swings hard for a pull and gets a top edge. Caught. 137 off 146 balls. What a great innings. It's been given out now after checking for the no ball. India 261/3.</p><p><img alt="" src="http://static.dnaindia.com/sites/default/files/2015/02/22/312665-dhawan-celebration.jpg" width="600" /></p><p>Free hit but just a single to Rahane. India are nudging 6 runs per over.</p><p>Over 41</p><p>Rahane reaches his fifty with a single. It's been a brilliant knock. India 237/2 after 41 overs.</p><p>Swing and a miss from Dhawan. Then he gets a single and there are still two balls left in the over.</p><p>The pick up on that shot was terrific.</p><p>SIX! Dhawan moves to off and hits a straight ball over long leg for six. Great shot.</p><p>Morkel continues. India got 50 off the powerplay.</p><p>Over 40</p><p>India 227/2 after 40 overs.</p><p>Single to deep square leg as Steyn strays down leg side.</p><p>FOUR. Now a short, rising ball, late cut to fine third man for four, almost right behind the keeper.</p><p>SIX! First six of the Indian innings. Slower ball from Steyn, Dhawan just hits through the line and clears the long on boundary.</p><p>Over 39</p><p>FOUR. That ball could have reached Antartica if there was no boundary and no fencing. It was hit so hard. Rahane just crashed it through the off side and the ball had reached the boundary before you could say Morkel. India 214/2 after 39 overs.</p><p>FOUR. Brilliant response to a great short ball. Slightly pitched up, Rahane hits on the up, straight through the line and down the ground.</p><p>Morkel is back and he's also bowling fast like there's no tomorrow. Rahane pulls out of the way of a really quick ball.</p><p>Over 38</p><p>Dhawan leaves the crease and Steyn follows him with a slower one. Dhawan misses. Three runs off the over. India 206/2 after 38 overs.</p><p>Three runs off five balls so far off this over.</p><p>The next ball hurries onto the batsman, outside off, but again it's through to the keeper before the batsman has completed his shot.</p><p>Rahane keeps out a pacy delivery but he can't get a single. A couple of good overs from Steyn will be worth their weight in gold at this point.</p><p>Short ball, Dhawan backs away and plays it to gully. India take a quick single.</p><p>Balls spears in, fast, straight and short. Dhawan thinks about it, then leaves, but the ball is already in the keeper's hands.</p><p>Dale Steyn comes back. Big throw of the dice from SA.</p><p>Over 37</p><p>Another single brings up the 200 for India in the 37th over. India 203/2 after 37 overs.</p><p>FOUR. Half-tracker, Dhawan lifts it over square leg for four. The crowd is going wild.</p><p>Rahane reverse sweeps for one. Partnership 60 off 55. Rahane 37 off 27.</p><p>Over 36</p><p>FOUR. Now the ball pitches on leg and Rahane gets a touch on it. The ball flies to the fine leg boundary. India 195/2 after 36 overs.</p><p>FOUR. Duminy drops it short, and Rahane goes over the infield, and gets the boundary.</p><p>I guess the batting powerplay is on, though India are still dealing mainly in singles.</p><p>India have never lost a match when Dhawan scored an ODI hundred. But he must feel great, because he has been struggling for form all season and has been severely panned by critics.</p><p>Over 35</p><p>FOUR. THAT's DHAWAN's CENTURY. Beautiful drive through cover point, he realised late that he had to run, but it didn't matter as the ball went for four. India 183/2 after 35 overs. Dhawan 103 off 122.</p><p>Rahane takes a single and now Dhawan is on strike. One ball to go.</p><p>Dabbed away and excellent running gets India two.</p><p>Rahane tries to take a single but the ball is straight back at the bowler. Everyone wants Shikhar on strike. Shikhar, Rahane, the crowds, even South Africa.</p><p>FOUR. Wide, full ball outside off as Parnell continues to bowl badly. Rahane cracks it for four through wide third man.</p><p>Over 34</p><p>Down the track, can't get it past short mid off. Duminy keeps Dhawan on 99. India 172/2 after 34 overs.</p><p>He again tries to nudge and run, but the ball has merely reached short cover and Dhawan has to go back.</p><p>Dhawan on 99. He dabs it and tries to run, sent back and thankfully so.</p><p>Rahane pinches a quick single, and Dhawan barely makes it in.</p><p>Dhawan on 98. The crowd expects. And he nudges a single to short fine leg to move to 99.</p><p>Rahane hit two boundaries in the last over. The second one was an under edge which the keeper DROPPED.</p><p>Over 32</p><p>India reach 155/2 after 32 overs and it's drinks.</p><p>Has Dhawan's mindset changed as he approaches a century? Let's hope not because India's run rate is still below 5.</p><p>Morkel finally bowls a reasonable delivery, tucking Dhawan up and the ball trickles to the keeper. The next ball is also good length and is played away to the on side by Dhawan.</p><p>Short, slow ball outside off, Rahane tries to steer it fine but misses.</p><p>Morkel continues and India continue with the quick singles. When will they take the powerplay? Dhawan is on 94.</p><p>Over 31</p><p>Premeditated reverse sweep. Ball ended up full on middle but Rahane did it anyway. Gets two to sweeper cover. India 153/2 after 31 overs.</p><p>Oh. Rahane was on the drive, almost fell out of his crease, and missed. The keeper flicked off the bails but the batsman was safe.</p><p>Now he gets beaten for spin, hangs his bat out at the ball misses the edge.</p><p>Slightly short, punched through off and India get two more. Good to see that Kohli's wicket against the run of play hasn't affected their fluency.</p><p>Rahane sweeps, Morkel dives to stop, misfields, but he stopped two runs.</p><p>Duminy has been brought back.</p><p>Over 30</p><p>Dhawan drives, slightly in the air but it's safe. Morkel dives to stop but India run a single. Dot off the last ball, India 146/2 after 30 overs.</p><p>Dhawan checks his straight drives, it trickles down the ground and India get another single. And then another from Rahane's bat. India are judging singles well at the moment.</p><p>Imran Tahir continues, Dhawan advances and scores a single to long off. Reaches 90.</p><p>Over 29</p><p>Now he's dabbed a late cut and gets a single to third man. Another single off the last over keeps Dhawan on strike. India 141/2 after 29.</p><p>Rahane is taking his time settling in. This could be SA's chance to put India under pressure.</p><p>Morne Morkel is back into the attack. First ball is defended by Dhawan, who's moved to 87.</p><p>Over 28</p><p>India 138/2 after 28 overs.</p><p>Ajinkya Rahane is the new batsman.</p><p>OUT! Shortish ball, there for the pull, and Kohli just picks out the short mid on, who took a good low catch. Kohli is gone for 46 off 60 balls, India 136/2.</p><p>Over 27</p><p>Short ball, pulled hard into the ground, and India run a single even as there is another bit of good fielding at short cover. 136/1 after 27 overs.</p><p>Misfield by Philander gets two for India. If you can milk Steyn you can milk any bowler in the world.</p><p>Pulled away to long leg for two. SA continue to bowl short. Perhaps a fuller length would be better?</p><p>Short ball this time, right on the body, Kohli ducks much better than Dhawan though.</p><p>FOUR. Steyn charges in, bowls full, and Kohli drives him straight down the ground for four. 'Could have been Tendulkar' says the commentator.</p><p>Over 25</p><p>India reach 123/1 after 25 overs. Nearly 5 an over now.</p><p>One run. du Plessis is now guilty of a needless throw. Dhawan was back in his crease, the throw hit the stumps, but India ran one off the ricochet. Steyn is unhappy.</p><p>Kohli has played a deft second fiddle even as Dhawan goes bonkers.</p><p>FOUR. Short ball, Dhawan pulls to the long leg boundary.</p><p>By the way, Steyn is back into the attack. SA really need wickets.</p><p>Two runs when there shouldn't have been one. Dhawan taps to off and runs, fielder coming in throws at the wrong end and it's overthrows. The fielder backing up misfields so India run another.</p><p>Over 24</p><p>Now he drives with much more confidence and gets two in the deep on the off side. India 114/1 after 24 overs. Very good over.</p><p>Kohli though looks far less confident. He has now missed two out of two balls.</p><p>Dhawan was moving away, then late cuts the next ball to third man for one.</p><p>FOUR. What a shot. Shot of his tournament so far. Length ball slightly on the fuller side, crashed down the ground, mid off had no chance.</p><p>FOUR. Brilliant shot from Dhawan. Short ball, Dhawan slides back, plays a cute upper cut and the ball races to the fence.</p><p>Over 23</p><p>Another single and 100 is up for India in the 23rd over. India 103/1 after 23 overs.</p><p>FOUR. Short, sits up, and Dhawan crashes it through square leg for four.</p><p>Duminy continues and Dhawan can't get a middle stump topspinner away.</p><p>Over 22</p><p>Storms heading to Melbourne?</p><p>India reach 94/1 after 22 overs.</p><p>Free hit, Kohli goes over the infield, but gets it high on the bat. Wide long on catches it but it's not out anyway and India get two.</p><p>No ball from Wayne Parnell, and there's a FREE HIT coming up!</p><p>The crowd is cheering every run now. But India's run rate is still hugging 4. Need some acceleration. How about taking on a spinner?</p><p>Wild short ball, rises head high but still outside off. Dhawan smashes it into the ground on the off side and runs a single. Dhawan had to jump to get over it.</p><p>Over 21</p><p>Four off the over, India 87/1 after 21 overs.</p><p>Short ball and Kohli hits it back to Duminy, who nearly runs out Dhawan! If he had hit Dhawan was gone. However it turned into overthrows for one.</p><p>Duminy came into the attack in the 19th over. SA's sharp infield continues to deny India singles.</p><p>Over 20</p><p>India go for a quick single off a Kohli defensive prod. Rosseow charges in and throws even as he is sliding. But Dhawan reaches safety just in time. India 83/1.</p><p>Slid off the middle off the bat to third man. India gets another single.</p><p>Two singles off the next three balls.</p><p>DROPPED. South Africa have dropped Dhawan. Another shortish ball outside off, Dhawan slashes again and Hashim Amla lets it go at backward point. It was hurrying towards him but should have been taken, given the usual standard of SA's fielding.</p><p>Over 18</p><p>FOUR. Short ball outside off, pacy, and Dhawan has thrashed it, smashed it, blugeoned it through the vacant gully for four. 50 up for Dhawan. India 77/1 after 18 overs.</p><p>Yet another short ball, this time it's neck high but still outside off. Square leg umpire says one for the over.</p><p>Another searing good length delivery gets hit down to third man for one. Dhawan moves to 48.</p><p>The next ball is a wide as Parnell goes even further outside off.</p><p>Wayne Parnell comes into the attack. Bowls slightly short outside off, swinging away and Dhawan slashes hard but misses.</p><p>Over 17</p><p>Single to end the over, India 70/1.</p><p>Top spinner from Tahir, ball hit's Shikhar's pad and loops up, is caught by short leg. Huge appeal and after a while they decide not to go for the review. A good decision because the ball was nowhere near the bat.</p><p>AB de Villiers makes another great fielding effort. Slides in from short mid on and throws at the non striker's end even as he is sliding.</p><p>First ball after drinks is eased down to long on for one.</p><p>Imran Tahir continues, but he's warming up as if he's coming back after a long break.</p><p>Over 16</p><p>It's drinks time.</p><p>Pulled, and lands a bit in front of an incoming fine leg. India 67/1 after 16 overs.</p><p>Now the next ball is not delivered. Dhawan backed away and Morkel backed out at the last moment. Revenge for that other over.</p><p>Another short ball, Dhawan is tucked up.</p><p>FOUR. Another short ball, Dhawan pulls hard, this time it didn't rise as much. Hit it clean to the on side boundary.</p><p>Brute of a delivery, Dhawan gets into an awkward position, ball hits the glove again.</p><p>Morne continues. He has conceded 20 off 19 balls so far.</p><p>Over 15</p><p>Kohli dabs Tahir for one and India are 61/1 after 15.</p><p>Apparently Vernon Philander has developed a 'tight hamstring' and is off the field.</p><p>Meanwhile, India continue to milk Tahir.<br /> Over 14</p><p>FOUR. Beautiful on drive from Dhawan, but that superb SA fielding nearly stops it at mid on. The ball slows down but still makes it to the boundary. India 56/1 after 14 overs.</p><p>Almost played on! Dhawan gets an underage and the ball flies over the stumps. Both bowler and batsman thought for a moment it had hit the stumps. The commentary team paid no attention.</p><p>Dhawan pulls away at the last moment, Morkel was almost through his run up.</p><p>Short ball, dies on the batsman and Kohli pulls into the ground. Gets one for all the effort.</p><p>Morne Morkel continues, slightly outside off stump and Dhawan gets a thick edge to third man.</p><p>Over 13</p><p>Down the track but played straight to short mid on. India 49/1 after 13 overs.</p><p>Dhawan drives to wide long off and there's a misfield which allows him to come back for two.</p><p>India are looking confident now as they begin to milk Tahir for runs.</p><p>Over 11</p><p>Short ball but can't get it past point. Just one off the over. 37/1 after 11 overs.</p><p>The next two balls are defended, as Sachin clicks a selfie and the commentators continue to devote time to him.</p><p>Flat, full ball and Virat plays a tennis shot to long off for one.</p><p>Imran Tahir comes into the attack, and gets reverse swept immediately. No success though.</p><p>Over 10</p><p>None off the last ball, India 36/1 after 10 overs.</p><p>FOUR. Up and over. Slight width and height and Dhawan thrashes it over cover point for four. Deliberately played in the air and it worked.</p><p>Dhawan decides to take a long look at Morne as he plays out the first three balls.</p><p>Morne Morkel is introduced into the attack from the Members' End.</p><p>Over 9</p><p>Three runs off the over, India 32/1 after 9 overs.</p><p>Two easy singles are pinched thereafter however, reducing anxiety levels in our newsroom.</p><p>JP Duminy is introduced into the attack and immediately causes problems for Dhawan.</p><p>Over 8</p><p>Last ball gets a quick single, Dhawan sprints into his crease at the other end but a direct hit would have been interesting.</p><p>FOUR. Nice ball outside off, perfect length and Dhawan crashes it through covers for four.</p><p>The commentators now find it apt to discuss Sachin Tendulkar instead of the poor batsmen at the crease, or the bowlers toiling away.</p><p>Now a length ball on middle and Kohli grows in confidence as he tucks it away to the on side for one. Then Tendulkar comes up on screen and the crowd goes wild.</p><p>FOUR. Driven well by Kohli through off, he leaned well into the shot. An India chant goes up.</p><p>Over 7</p><p>Yet another good stop in the covers, and India are 19/1 after 7 overs.</p><p>Sachin Tendulkar has arrived at the stadium and Harsha Bhogle is beside himself with joy. The crowd roars like they came to see only him.</p><p>FOUR. Third boundary for Dhawan who continues to look good among bad. Pitched up, rare bad ball and Dhawan drives well through covers.</p><p>Second ball gets a single to third man. The crowd cheers as if Kohli just reached 50.</p><p>Steyn races in again and Kohli leaves. The ball is carrying really well to the keeper and it's also swinging.</p><p>Over 6</p><p>Dhawan manages to negotiate the last two balls and now India are 14/1.</p><p>Short ball, got big on Dhawan as he swivel pulled. Managed to get it over short fine leg though. A couple of runs scored.</p><p>Kohli finally manages a single and the crowd erupts. A lot of Indian support in Melbourne.</p><p>Philander to Dhawan, slightly on leg and tucked away for one.</p><p>Over 5</p><p>Swing and a miss. Virat swipes and misses outside off. India 10/1 after 5 overs.</p><p>Now Dhawan gets a single and will be relieved to be off strike.</p><p>Another short ball, but slower this time and Dhawan almost played it straight to point. He played early and is lucky it didn't carry.</p><p>Oh. Short ball, not too short. Rises into Dhawan who only found out at the last moment. Couldn't get out of the way, hits the glove on the way up.</p><p>Steyn continues to Dhawan, who is looking slightly more circumspect now.</p><p>Over 4</p><p>And the over ends in a maiden. India 9/1 after 4 overs.</p><p>No runs off four balls so far. There is a lot of outswing being extracted by the SA bowlers.</p><p>Virat Kohli is in and gets tested with a Philander outswinger straight away.</p><p>Over 3</p><p>OUT! Rohit Sharma is gone, run out for 0. Dhawan smashed the ball into the covers and de Villiers is like a hare. Picks up, throws it accurately at the non striker's end. There is no way Rohit can get back. India 9/1 after 3 overs.</p><p>FOUR. Now he does. Outswinger again, high on pace, Dhawan drives. The ball flies between point and third man for four. Not sure the timing was too sweet.</p><p>First two balls fetch no run. Steyn is yet to concede.</p><p>Steyn is continuing and he looks a bit like Allan Donald from afar.</p><p>Over 2</p><p>This time he drives through the off side, and there's a misfield! India get one. India 5/0 after 2 overs</p><p>FOUR. But Philander is not Steyn, and he strays on to leg. Dhawan flicks it through the on side for four.</p><p>Second ball is defended well by Dhawan. Same for the third ball.</p><p>Philander, averaging 21, to Dhawan, who crashes it though the off side but gets stopped at point.</p><p>Over 1</p><p>Drives and misses, maiden over, India 0/0</p><p>Steyn is bowling outswinger after outswinger, and Rohit is still being defensive.</p><p>Third ball swings way outside off stump but Rohit leaves. Not wide enough to be wide though.</p><p>Driven to mid on but straight to mid on. Good sound off the middle of the bat.</p><p>First ball is carefully defended by Rohit.</p><p>Indian openers Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan are out to the middle. They will immediately be in Dale Steyn's firing line.</p><p>8:36 IST Sunday, 22 February 2015</p><p>It's now time for the toss.</p><p>Dhoni calls heads and Dhoni has won the toss. He says India will bat first.</p><p>He says the squad is essentially the same. AB de Villiers says he would have batted first too, but then sometimes you don't know how much to get batting first.</p><p>8:30 IST Sunday, 22 February 2015</p><p>Ganguly says there is much grass on the wicket, which means the fast bowlers will get help. He says the spinners won't get much help except some bounce.</p><p>Pommie Mbangwa says the curator has done a 'fantastic' job. It looks hard and there will be nice pace and carry, he says. But the sun beating down makes it slightly less hostile to the batsmen.</p><p>8:16 IST Sunday, 22 February 2015</p><p>On another note, it's nearly time for the toss.</p><p>This puts things in perspective:</p><p>And here's some more madness from India. A lion with Indian players painted on it.</p><p>6:55 IST Sunday, 22 February 2015</p><p>Just around two hours to go for the match to start and tweets coming from MCG makes it amply clear that excitement is already reaching a frenzy.</p><p>Some blast from the past</p><p>Indian dressing room</p>

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<p><strong>New Delhi, Jaideep Prabhu(DNA):</strong> The visit of Chinese premier Xi Jinping to India this week is the most awaited meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tenure so far. Two of Asia's largest states – in size, population, military, and economy – will discuss issues that affect over a third of humanity. Yet more interesting to observers is that Xi's visit comes between meetings with two other heads of state that have elicited much attention: between Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a fortnight ago, and between Modi and US President Barack Obama next fortnight.</p><h2>Don't expect any miracles from Narendra Modi's meet with China's Xi Jinping</h2><p><img alt="" src="http://static.dnaindia.com/sites/default/files/2014/09/15/267400-narendra-modi-xi-jinping-afp.jpg" width="600" /></p><p>In advance of the arrival of the Chinese diplomatic delegation, the barrage of ostensibly sweet yet meaningless words has already started. Assistant Chinese Foreign Minister Liu Jianchao told reporters, "India is a country with which China has been friendly for thousands of years." Even Xi said when he met Modi for the first time at the BRICS summit in Fortaleza, Brazil, that it felt like he was meeting an old friend. As Sir Humphrey would remind us, "It is necessary to get behind someone before you can stab them in the back." Nevertheless, to paraphrase the old priest Laocoön's famous warning* to his fellow Trojans, timeo Sinae et dona ferentes.</p><p>And come bearing gifts, they do. The Chinese delegation will have over 100 business heads and is expected to invest $100 billion in India over the next five years, thrice the $34 billion that Abe promised Modi earlier this month. The comparison was bluntly underscored by Liu Youfa, Beijing's consul-general in Bombay. China's banks hold $4 trillion in foreign currency reserves and are desperately looking for investment opportunities. India's hungry economy is finally generating international interest and the Chinese, having already dealt with Modi when he was chief minister of Gujarat, are optimistic about their south-western neighbour.</p><p>India needs massive investment in infrastructure and developing its manufacturing potential. China Inc will be looking at the modernisation of Indian railways, construction of highways, power generation and distribution, irrigation, ports, and manufacturing. Two industrial parks, one in Pune and the other in Gandhinagar, have already been finalised and will make power equipment and automobiles; two more have been planned in Tamil Nadu for textiles and food processing. Orissa expects to be India's energy gateway on the east coast.</p><p>If there is anything that can be foretold about the summit with certainty, it is that the China hawks in India will be sorely disappointed. Modi is far more pragmatic than his supporters or detractors give him credit for and realises that India is a pygmy compared to Chinese economic – and consequently military and diplomatic – wherewithal. The meeting between Modi and Xi will not see Delhi handing Beijing ultimatums on Chinese-occupied Kashmir or China's activities in Gilgit-Baltistan.</p><p>However, international optimism in Modi's leadership has allowed India to leverage its ties with Japan and the United States to force China to be more sensitive to its concerns. Beijing is well aware that there is no pivot to Asia by anyone without Delhi and it hopes to persuade its neighbour of the virtue of remaining, as it were, non-aligned. Additionally, an unhappy India would open up another flank and divert resources from China's competition in the Pacific with the United States. Interestingly, India has found itself alongside China on several economic issues such as subsidies and climate change, yet with the United States on political issues such as democracy, a larger geopolitical role for India in the region, and Islamism.</p><p>Despite the big investments, it remains unclear how much China is willing to pander to India. As much as India needs capital inflows, China is also looking for sound markets to park its money. Even economically, there is some friction between the Asian giants. India is concerned about its trade deficit with China and would like easier access to Chinese markets for its pharmaceutical, agricultural, and information technology products; similarly, China would like to expand in India's telecom sector, but suspicions in Delhi about its neighbour's intentions and cyber capabilities has so far put the idea on the back burner.</p><p>As part of the economic integration of South and Southeast Asia, China has invited India to become part of its Maritime Silk Route (MSR). However, this may well be a strategy to hem India into a Chinese regional order – BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) are both fora in which Beijing's superior clout may prevent India from chasing its interests but not vice versa. India's growing weapons purchases from the United States and the West has irked Russia, and with Western policies pushing it towards China, Delhi might find that it does not have as sympathetic an ear in Moscow anymore either.</p><p>The temptations of joining a ready-made mechanism are many, e specially when one cannot afford the enormous infrastructural development outlays needed for Southeast or Central Asia. However, Delhi must exercise caution not to be too indebted to Beijing that it restricts political manoeuvrability, a lesson not lost on Laos or Cambodia. India has envisioned its own International North South Trade Corridor (INSTC) that would connect India with Central Asia and the Mediterranean but, not surprisingly, the proposal has been languishing in the doldrums for years.</p><p>The root of Sino-Indian tensions, however, lies in their old border dispute, over which a war was fought in 1962. The result was the loss of 38,000 square kilometres by India to China in addition to the 5,180 square kilometres Pakistan illegally ceded to China a year later, a bruised Indian national ego, and an enduring Sinophobia among many Indians. To make matters worse, China still claims Arunachal Pradesh and border incursions are frequent and serious. India caved in on the question of Tibetan independence and it is not even on the horizon.</p><p>China's hand in its negotiations with India is not as weak as some would portray – the China-in-need-of-an-ally against an aggressive US pivot to Asia image is a myth. For Beijing, a calm south-western border would be nice but it has already invested strategically in India's other neighbour Pakistan to keep Delhi off balance. Islamabad's nuclear weapons and missiles, both initially gifted by the Chinese, have created a permanent thorn in India's side. Beijing merely has to be nice enough to India that South Block does not begin to think seriously about an alliance, even an unofficial one, with Japan and the United States and bring Barack Obama's pivot to fruition.</p><p>As regards Islamism, it is indeed a rising menace and has spread in recent months from Xinjiang to all across China. However, Beijing probably reckons that the Uyghurs may yet be brought to heel internally via police repression and population migration. In the meantime, economic aid to its "-stan" neighbours – Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Pakistan – will gain the cooperation of local governments against cross-border terrorism. Pakistan's jihadist complex and the instability of the state have been of growing concern, but China is yet to take concrete measures to rein in its all-weather ally.</p><p>A more insidious goal of Beijing is to degrade India's credibility in the neighbourhood. If India shies away from taking a more proactive role in South and Southeast Asian security, the other states of the region will begin to see Delhi as unreliable and weak rather than as a potential counter-balance to Beijing. Today, Modi is welcomed in Japan, Vietnam, and Australia, in ASEAN and in SAARC; yet if India remained apathetic to Asia's increasing fears of Chinese dominance today, it would be far more isolated 10 years on if it then tried to cobble together an anti-China alliance.</p><p>Perhaps it is because of their small stature on the world stage, but Indians are particularly susceptible to flattery. A few words about India's civilisational greatness will easily substitute for the lack of substance during the talks. So far, Modi has struck the right note – he has indicated that India is open for business but he has also chastised an unnamed country during his visit to Japan for its expansionism.</p><p>For all the investment Xi will bring to India, little will be achieved towards solving the geopolitical loggerhead and the Gordian knot at the heart of Asian power politics. Sino-Indian trade will increase and the Chinese and Indian economies will move closer, but contrary to the hopes of those who see economics as the driver of history and believe in the rational actor theory, the two Asian giants will continue to glare at each other across the Himalayas.</p>

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<p>Beijing(web team): Reaching out to Chinese investors, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked them to take advantage of the "winds of change" in India with a much more transparent, responsive and stable regulatory regime even as leading firms from the two sides signed 26 deals worth more than USD 22 billion.</p><p><img alt="" src="http://static.dnaindia.com/sites/default/files/2015/05/16/336834-modimake-in-india.jpg" width="600" /></p><p>"This is a historic opportunity for Chinese companies," Modi said addressing the India-China Business Forum here in China's financial hub after interacting with 22 CEOs of top Chinese companies, including Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma.</p><p>China and India on Saturday signed deals worth more than $ 22 billion in areas including renewable energy, ports, financing and industrial parks, an Indian embassy official said on Saturday.</p><p>"The agreements have a bilateral commercial engagement in sectors like renewable energy, industrial parks, power, steel, logistics finance and media and entertainment," Khampa said.</p><p>Also see: Pictures from Day 1 of PM Modi's visit to China</p><article class="MediaCard<br /> MediaCard--mediaForward</p><pre><code> customisable-border" dir="ltr" style="color: #1c2022; 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padding: 0px; list-style: none; border: none; white-space: pre-wrap; cursor: text; direction: ltr;">21 Business Agreements being signed between <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IndiaChina?src=hash" rel="tag" style="color: #2b7bb9; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix">#</span><span class="PrettyLink-value">IndiaChina</span></a> worth USD 22billion at India-China Business Forum</p><div class="Tweet-metadata dateline" style="font-size: 0.875rem; color: #697882; margin-top: 0.2rem;"><a class="u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink" data-datetime="2015-05-16T03:33:35+0000" data-scribe="element:full_timestamp" href="https://twitter.com/MEAIndia/status/599417381333532673" style="text-decoration: inherit; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; background-color: transparent;">9:03 AM - 16 May 2015</a></div></div></blockquote></div><p>List of B2B agreements signed during PM's visit</p><p>10:33 IST Saturday, 16 May 2015</p><p>PM Modi meeting Shanghai Party Secretary Han Zheng</p><p>9:42 IST Saturday, 16 May 2015</p><p>China, India sign more than $22 billion in deals - Indian embassy</p><p>8:45 IST Saturday, 16 May 2015</p><p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday addressed India-China Business forum after meeting top 22 Chinese CEOs in Shanghai and said he strongly believes that this century belongs to Asia.</p><article class="MediaCard<br /> MediaCard--mediaForward</p><pre><code> customisable-border" dir="ltr" style="color: #1c2022; 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padding: 0px; list-style: none; border: none; white-space: pre-wrap; cursor: text; direction: ltr;">"Harbin Electric would like to bring more light to India, take advantage of Make in India". CEO Mr. Zou Lei to PM</p><div class="Tweet-metadata dateline" style="font-size: 0.875rem; color: #697882; margin-top: 0.2rem;"><a class="u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink" data-datetime="2015-05-16T02:09:49+0000" data-scribe="element:full_timestamp" href="https://twitter.com/MEAIndia/status/599396301843734528" style="text-decoration: inherit; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; background-color: transparent;">7:39 AM - 16 May 2015</a></div></div></blockquote></div><p>PM Modi at India-China Business Forum in Shangha</p><ul><li>India has always been a knowledge society. You have been an innovating society.</li><li>As we helped each other growing spiritually, we have to help each other growing economically.</li><li>The scope and potential, the breadth and length of infrastructure and related developments is very huge in India.</li><li>Indo-Chinese partnership should and will flourish, says PM Modi at India-China Business Forum in Shangha.</li><li>Harmonious partnership between India and China is essential for economic development and political stability of Asia.</li><li>India and China have potential of growth and problem solving. I am personally committed to take the co-operative process forward.</li><li>Let us work together in mutual interest and for progress and prosperity of our great countries</li></ul><p>8:40 IST Saturday, 16 May 2015</p><p><img alt="" src="http://static.dnaindia.com/sites/default/files/2015/05/16/336801-chinese-ceo.jpg" /></p><p>8:30 IST Saturday, 16 May 2015</p><p>8:20 IST Saturday, 16 May 2015</p><p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met 22 top Chinese CEOs in Shanghai and pitched for make in India.</p><p>Interacting with CEO's of Chinese companies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, "I have come to say to you Make in India"</p><p>Pitching the '5F Formula' - From Farm to Fibre to Fabric to Fashion to Foreign, PM Modi invited top Chinese CEOs to 'Make in India',</p><p>Modi also said that India and China can together give something to the world.</p><p>Here's the list of top business persons who attended the CEO's interaction with PM</p><p>8:15 IST Saturday, 16 May 2015</p><p>India & China can together give something to the world. PM Modi at CEO's interaction in Shanghai</p><p>8:10 IST Saturday, 16 May 2015</p><p>We fully support Make in India, Xiaomi's Lin Bin to PM Modi</p><p>7:40 IST Saturday, 16 May 2015<br /> PM meets Chinese CEOs in Shanghai</p><p>7:26 IST Saturday, 16 May 2015</p><p>'We are full of hope about India, which offers a dynamic work force and huge market ". Liang Wengen, Chairman SANY</p><p>7:25 IST Saturday, 16 May 2015</p><p>"We are excited about India. We are excited about Make in India and Digital India." Jack Ma of Alibaba to PM Modi</p><p>7:24 IST Saturday, 16 May 2015</p><p>Trillions of dollars under 1 roof!</p><p>Previous Updates:</p><p>19:17 IST Friday, 15 May 2015</p><p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Sanghai on Friday for the third and final leg of his three-day China visit that also took him to Xi'an and Beijing. Modi arrived yesterday in Xi'an where he held summit-level talks with President Xi Jinping.</p><p>He then moved to Beijing where he held wide-ranging parleys with his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang today. Tomorrow Modi will meet with CEOs of top Chinese companies and a number of agreements worth USD 10 billion are expected to be signed.</p><p>16:00 IST Friday, 15 May 2015</p><p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said both India and China face the threat of growing extremism and terrorism whose source "is in the same region", in a veiled reference to terror networks in Pakistan.</p><p>Modi, while addressing students at the Tsinghua University in Beijing , asserted that India and China face instability in their "shared neighbourhood" that can threaten the security and slow down the economies of the two countries. "The spreading tide of extremism and terrorism is a threat we both face; for both, its source is in the same region," he said in an apparent reference to the cross-border terrorism faced by India and China originating in Pakistan.</p><p>Terror strikes in India like the 26/11 Mumbai attacks have often been traced to Pakistan while unrest in China's Xinjiang province is many times linked to separatists trained in camps in Pakistan. "We must also deal with the changing character of terrorism that has made it less predictable and more diffuse. We source a large part of our energy from the same region that faces instability and uncertain future," Modi said.</p><p>14:26 IST Friday, 15 May 2015</p><ul><li>We will ensure land acquisition does not become a barrier to growth and a burden to farmers: PM Modi</li><li>India, China should settle boundary question quickly, without any prejudice: PM Modi</li><li>India has decided to extend e-visa to Chinese nationals: PM Modi</li></ul><p>11:17 IST Friday, 15 May 2015</p><ul><li>India, China decide to have more Border Personnel Meeting Points as part of efforts to maintain peace and tranquility on the boundary.</li><li>India,China to set up task force to look into trade imbalance and other economic issues, says Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar.</li></ul><p>10:33 IST Friday, 15 May 2015</p><p>I speak of Cooperative Federalism, when the Centre and the States are partners: PM Modi</p><p>Speaking at the forum, PM Narendra Modi said, "This forum has a special place in my heart. As I saw in my experience State government can take innumerable initiatives for development of states. In India's Constitution, state governments have predominant role in economic and social development."</p><p>He further added, "I speak of Team India. I believe foundation for India's development will not be single pillar of Centre but 30 pillars of Centre, States. I speak of Cooperative Federalism, when the Centre and the States are partners."</p><p>Stating that such a forum is a first that India has with any country, Modi said, " We are truly taking our relationship outside our national capitals to state capitals and cities."</p><p>10:00 IST Friday, 15 May 2015</p><p>China must reconsider approach to realise full potential of partnership with India: PM Modi</p><p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that China must reconsider its approach on certain issues in order to realise the full potential of its partnership with India, adding that the two Asian giants have a ‘historic responsibility’ to use their relationship for the good of the world.</p><p>Addressing media after signing ceremony, PM Modi said, "I am very grateful to President Xi for his special gesture of hosting me in Xian; and, for showing me the city's extraordinary heritage. It is a treasure of the world. I am pleased to visit China in the first year of my Government. This is one of our most important strategic partnerships."</p><p>Modi further added, "Our relationship has been complex in recent decades. But, we have a historic responsibility to turn this relationship into a source of strength for each other and a force of good for the world. We are committed to set a new direction between the two largest Asian countries."</p><p>“My conversations with [Chinese] Premier Li Keqiang were candid, constructive and friendly. I stressed the need for China to reconsider its approach to some issues that hold us back from realising the full potential of our partnership. We both reiterated our strong commitment to make all efforts to maintain peace and tranquillity in the border region,” he added.</p><p>Modi also stressed the need for strengthening mutual trust and confidence while seeking solutions to outstanding issues.</p><p>The Prime Minister said, "I sought tangible progress on issues relating to visa policy and trans-border rivers. I also discussed some of our regional concerns. We agreed that as we move ahead, we should be sensitive to each other's interests; strengthen mutual trust and confidence; continue to manage our difference with maturity; and, seek solutions to outstanding issues."</p><p>"On the boundary question, we agreed that we continue to explore a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable resolution. We both reiterated our strong commitment to make all efforts to maintain peace and tranquility in the border region," said Modi.</p><p>Stating that he looks forward to working with President Xi and Premier Li, Modi said, "I have welcomed President Xi's proposal to hold regular summits to realize our vision for the relationship. I have also invited Premier Li to visit India at an early date."</p><p>List of agreements signed between india and China</p><p>Agreements on Railways, Education Exchange Program, Mining and Mineral sector, Space Co-operation, Broadcasting between CCTV & DD, Tourism Co-operation, India-China Think Tank Forums, Earthquake Science & Engineering, Development Research Centre and NITI Aayog, Co-op on Ocean Science were signed between India and China.</p>

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