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India v West Indies, 1st ODI
January 21, 2007
Sourav Ganguly marked his comeback
with a scintillating 98 as India very nearly lost the plot in
the dying stages before scampering home to a thrilling 14-run
victory in the first one-dayer against the West Indies
in Nagpur on Sunday.
Under enormous pressure to arrest their sliding fortunes
in ODIs of late, the hosts rattled up a record 338 for three
on a placid track and managed to stop the Caribbeans at 324
for eight to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series at the
VCA stadium.
Ganguly, coming back into the one-day fold after a gap of
15 months, thrilled the crowd with his strokes before missing
what would have been his 23rd century by a whisker through a
run-out.
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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