Australia Grab Thrilling Win Despite a Great Innings from Sachin Tendulkar
Australia grabbed a thrilling win by 3 runs in spite of the great Innings from Sachin Tendulkar to take a 3-2 lead in the seven match series. Australia would have never thought that giving a huge target of 350 runs to chase was not just enough till the wonder man Sachin Tendulkar is there on the crease. It was another great innings from the master blaster who single handedly took the charge to chase the target of 350 set by the Aussies. Tendulkar, who scored a magnificent 175 from just 141 deliveries did not let the Australians stay comfortable at any stage of the game. Boosted by the classic innings of Sachin, the Indians were so close to an astounding victory which ended with a heartbreaking finish. Initially Australia batted extremely well. Opener Watson found back his amazing form to give Australia a flying start. Then Shawn Marsh took the charge scoring a beautiful century. Skipper Ponting also played a good knock. Australia’s innings was given a nice finish by in-form Mike Hussey and White. The Indian innings saw a good start at hands of Sehwag. But Sachin Tendulkar was the man again to steal the show. First he completed the milestone of 17000 runs in ODI cricket. Then he went on to score his 45th century. The score board was showing 350 runs to chase. But the master never seemed to be tension. He played his natural cricket. India kept losing wickets but that did not seem trouble Sachin at all. With a good support from Raina he kept hitting the Australian bowlers comfortably and made the target of 350 easily achievable. Ricky Ponting had no answer to Sachin’s batting. But when he got out when there was just 19 runs to score from 17 deliveries, India started loosing wickets. Though Praveen Kumar drived a six to keep Indians hopes alive he became the victim of an unfortunate run out. India fell short the Australian’s target by three runs. Definitely a heartbreaking ending to a great chase.
But whatever be the result this was one of the greatest innings from Sachin. As long as this wonder is on the crease, anything can happen. However the Aussies were quite better than the Indians in the field. The catch taken by Bollinger from a very difficult angle to get Sehwag out was a very brilliant one. Again Dhoni’s dismissal saw an impossible catch made possible by Voges. Any way great cricket from the Aussies, from the Indians and specially from Sachin Tendulkar.
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