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After a rather one-sided game in New York, where Shane Warne’s Warriors romped to victory with absolute ease, the cricket-loving contingent in Houston, Texas would be desperate to get a more closer game between the two All-Star teams.
Plenty of thrilling sights were in store in the first game, with the highlight perhaps being Jonty Rhodes’ reverse-sweep six off Sachin Tendulkar’s loopy ball to take his team home.
Jacques Kallis’s acrobatic catch off the ‘Master Blaster’ and a spellbinding quota of extreme fast-bowling by Shoaib Akhtar are perhaps some other vibrant moments from the encounter.
Though it was quite obvious, barring some players, that the players were worse for wear and seemed too fragile to play anymore, nevertheless, as a unit, both teams did reasonably well.
Shaun Pollock and Allan Donald seemed like they were bowling gentle off-spinners and batsmen like VVS Laxman and Brian Lara seemed to be playing Test cricket.
The Citi Field, home to the New York Mets, was rather spin-friendly with legends like Muttiah Muralitharan and Warne extracting a lot from the surface.
The next game might draw an equivalent quantity of spectators and perhaps give them more hope of seeing better, recently retired players like Graeme Swann, Kallis and Virender Sehwag impose more influence.
In all proportions, Warne’s Warriors look to be a more stronger side than Tendulkar’s Blasters, boasting many true Twenty20 players like Andrew Symonds and Rhodes with Matthew Hayden at the top.
The bowling also looks in better shape and a yard ahead of the Blasters. The Blasters perhaps have three or four really explosive links, capable of making an impact but otherwise looking somewhat bereaved.
After comprehensively winning the first game, the Warriors might go for the kill in this game. It might, however, be more high-scoring now that the players have the experience of playing in baseball stadiums, and considering the boundary lengths it might stretch to a 170-plus chase.
The second match start at 6pm (local time) at Minute Maid Park, Crawford, Texas.
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