Since this will be the last series before both team will meet again in 2008 in India, post any bharak our emotional players may produce. I know there were some by Inzi, Akhtar and Woolmer before the first test. In this thread please post any bharak you may find during this series. This is not something Sehwag pointed to this series in particular, but still its a bharak. lol.
**Sehwag says he might go for Lara’s world record **
Qaiser Mohammad Ali (Indo-Asian News Service)
Lahore, January 16, 2006
After scoring an unbeaten 247 in the first Test against Pakistan at Gaddafi Stadium on Monday, Virender Sehwag indicated he might try to break West Indian Brian Lara’s world record of 400.
But Sehwag said pitches like the one here did not augur well for Test cricket.
Asked if he would attempt to break West Indian Brian Lara’s world record, Sehwag said: “You never know. What will happen tomorrow no one knows.”
“It was the best track to bat on,” Sehwag told reporters in reply to another question on whether it was the best surface that he had come across in his 40-Test career.
The Indian vice-captain, who helped his team score 403 without loss in reply to Pakistan’s 679 for seven wickets declared, was quick to add that such pitches would not promote five-day Test matches.
“It is their strategy. They prepared the wicket. Probably they had in mind the fact that they had lost the first Test the last time we toured here in 2004,” he said after his 320-minute knock on the fourth and penultimate day of the match.
“We want result-oriented wickets. We have come here to win,” he declared.
Apart from Sehwag, captain Rahul Dravid scored an unbeaten 128 to lead India’s strong reply on a perfect batting pitch.
http://www.htcricket.com/htcricket/7912_1600571,001601150008.htm
I remember a similar record breaking bhaRaak last year when Pak visited India and then Sehwag’s failure. He has been diagnosed with the same virus as our pace icon, with similar end results.
