What a match it was...
The game yo-yoed atleast five times before India emerged triumphant...
What started off as a bad day for the Indians saw a bit of consolidation later on from the Indians before the Pakistanis went off to a cautious yet effective start, situation somehow deteriorated over time for the neighbours only for Agarkar to give them 17 of the penultimate over and for Sreesanth who gave 11 runs of the last...
The scoreboard read '1 runs needed of 2 balls', this is when I got reminded of the Aus-SA game in the 1999 world cup when SA needed 1 run of 4 balls and Klusner ran himself out after a 'Zulu' assault on the Kangaroos. However the fact this was another year, another day and another team made little difference -> Pakistanis did exactly the same, got runout of the last ball to end the game in a TIE...
As if this was not spectacular what followed next would probably remain etched in the memory of all those who saw it and will hear or read about it...
For the first ever time in the hundred year cricket history there was a soccer like SHOOTOUT, beat that...
The rules being each team had to nominate five bowlers (could even be the keeper) and each bowler is supposed to bowl and hit the stump, the team with most number of hits in their alloted five shots is declared winner. In the unlikely event that even this ended in a tie then each team nominates a single bowler and the process is reiterated...
MSD (dhoni) was sharp enough to summon relatively less tired and more accurate players to shoot as against Pakistan who went the soccer way and had its lead bowlers do the job...
Unfortunately for Pakistan the lead bowlers did what they were hired for but the way they generally go about their trade, with queer run-ups (god only knows why) and tired minds got it way off target...
1-0
2-0
3-0
Game, Set and Match for the Indians...
Signing off...
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