I still remember the match,
I was in my friends place and we all were cheering for India, Sachin and Mongia were going for the win! Pakistan were on the back foot!
Mongia plays a bad shot! silence, but nobody has lost hope, Sachin hain na.. Sachin's back starts its journey from BAD to WORSE... his shots start getting bolder as he can't bare more pain!
Saqlain's drifter takes outside edge of sachin's bat and wasim pouches the catch!
3 wickets left 17 runs to win! and India losses the test match!
MAN OF THE MATCH - Sachin's award is collected by Azar, sachin was crying in the dressing room more for the pain inside his heart then on his back!
after 9 years.. 2008!
Same situation, same venue... But, sorry critics This is a Different Story
THE STAGE WAS SET.. India needed 250 to win in last day, after Shewag put India on its way with a blistering 83, The momentum was given, but the job was not finished, Sachin walked in, the commentator mentioned about the "Famous Chennai Test match against Pakistan" but I reckon he had it in his mind even before he came out to bat! One look at him and you knew that he wanted to make amends, He wanted to prove his critics wrong! AGAIN! "Sachin never performs when needed"
The focus, The determination... OUTSTANDING!!
Guiding Laxman, then Yuvi later on... he stayed on
The experts on air kept saying his is the GOLDEN WICKET, and England on feild kept toiling away to get the GOLDEN WICKET of SACHIN!....
NOT this time... ha ha Not this time, He knew this is it! and THIS TIME SACHIN NAILED IT!!! he delivered, and HOW!!!
COME ON GUYS!! Of all the centuries he has... THIS ONE that he played to WIN a TEST MATCH where india is chasing 387 on a crumbling pitch DAY 5, that too winning it on the LAST SESSION, hitting the winning runs, which happened to be his century runs also!!
All this after what happened in MUMBAI, his home town!!
- THIS IS THE STUFF DREAMS ARE MADE OFF!!!
I agree with Shewag! it is surely SACHIN'S BEST!
