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| India v Pakistan 1st ODI |
| Pakistan struggled to 239-7 from their 50 overs against India in Guwahati after choosing to bat first in the opening match of the one-day series.
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| INDIA
, 5-November-2007
1:29:27 AM |
| Salman Butt gave them a solid start, with eight fours in his fifth one-day fifty, before the spinners took hold.
Shahid Afridi blasted the only six but two wickets fell for two runs.
Mohammad Yousuf, dropped on nine by Sourav Ganguly, gave his team hope with a battling 58th ODI fifty, finishing unbeaten on 83, with seven boundaries.
Butt played some fluent strokes with the field up for the powerplay overs, taken in one bundle by India captain Mahendra Dhoni.
Kamran Akmal was not able to score as freely and succumbed playing an ungainly stroke across the line, although replays suggested that umpire Ian Gould, resplendent in old school colonial-style panama hat, was incorrect as the ball pitched outside leg-stump.
After the drinks break, spin was introduced in the form of Harbhajan Singh and he made the breakthrough, although not with any magical delivery.
Having completed his fifty from 56 balls, Butt miscued to mid-off but set off for a perfectly realistic single, only to find Younus Khan rooted to the non-striker's end.
Butt was unable to scramble back as Yuvraj Singh whistled the ball back to Dhoni and with slow left-armer Murali Kartik in operation from the other end the scoring slowed, 16 overs passing by without a boundary.
Yousuf was reprieved when he got a leading edge playing against the spin of Kartik but Ganguly, running back towards mid-off, could not cling on to the chance.
Younus also felt the urgency to accelerate the scoring but succumbed, lofting to long-off.
It took until 35th over for the first six of the innings, a brutal heave over long-on from Afridi as Pathan dropped short, but when spin returned problems mounted for Pakistan.
Having butchered another boundary, Afridi was hoplessly deceived in the flight by Tendulkar and was almost nearer the bowler's end than the crease as Dhoni took off the bails.
Worse was to follow as skipper Shoaib Malik, wearing eye-catchingly luminous green pads, fell to an
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