Re: 3rd Test - Thu 24 - Mon 28: March 05 Pakistan Vs India
My favourite moments of the day:
- Sehwag’s run out. I was jumping with joy up and down the whole house. Poor Gambhir i feel sad for him. He is gonna get one hell of a drilling in the dressing room. It was his call that got Sehwag running and then stopped him in he middle. If i were him i would have sacrificed my wicket to keep Sehwag at the crease. Kher, kids still learning. At that point Sanjay Manjrekar recalled how he once got Tendulkar run out. They came back home on different flights!
23.4 Danish Kaneria to Gambhir, no run, RUN OUT! turned away to the mid-
on region, bit of hesitation going for the single, Razzaq scores a
direct hit at the bowler’s end and Sehwag is out by a long way, a
wicket Pakistan desperately needed!
Gambhir called for the single and then pulled away, Sehwag was
stranded, in the end gave up hoping that the fielder would miss
but Razzaq was spot on! exactly what Pakistan needed at this stage
Rahul Dravid is the next man in
- Ganguly’s wicket. Dear captain could not believe his bails were genuinely disturbed by an almost 90 degree turning leg break from Afridi. He was banking on the hope that maybe Akmal touched the wicket with his pads. Taufel had to tell Ganguly two or three times to leave but Ganguly just stood there staring at everyone in disbelief.
55.4 Shahid Afridi to Ganguly, OUT: Afridi strikes again! tossed up,
pitched wide outside the off stump and turning in, Ganguly tries
to drive it away on the front-foot, misses the target by miles and
gets bowled, India five down!
Ganguly stayed on waiting for confirmation! everybody except
Ganguly was convinced
Karthik is the next man in
- Karthik’s wicket. Tendulkar played the ball and took a run and gave the strike to Karthik (to avoid Sami’s bouncers maybe ) and gave Karthik a piece of advice God knows what. Sami followed suit with a late dipping in-swinging yorker that sent Karthik’s off stump flying out of the ground. You’re a nice kid Karthik, now off to the dresser you go. Next!
Tendulkar has a long conversation with his partner
69.4 Mohammad Sami to Karthik, OUT: cleaned up! sharp in swinging
yorker, Karthik was clueless, ball crashes into the off stump,
- Balaji’s ‘hats off’. On the delivery that balaji is adjudged LBW, the ball hits his pads then gets the amazingly wierd bounce and goes straight up to dislodge his hat which falls off.