India won the toss and elected to bat and had a rocking start with a huge opening stand of 142 between Sachin Tendulkar (111) and Virender Sehwag (73). After Sehwag got himself out off du Plessis; Gautam Gambhir (69) joined little master. He was a little bit nervous in the start but gained his confidence in the process and played beautifully to take the score to 267. Tendulkar completed his second world cup century in the process but after that got out trying to increase the run rate.
The real collapse started for India and they kept on losing quick wickets and fell on just 296. Last eight wickets fell for adding just 29 runs in 9 overs. Dale Steyn, who had a nightmarish time earlier in the innings when Tendulkar and Sehwag smashed him all over the park, took five quick wickets to wrap Indian inning under 300-mark.
Watch the video how badly Indian played in the last moments of their innings:
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