Background:
India vs SA, 2nd ODI, Sawai ManSingh stadium, Gwalior. History being made.
Over: 48.5, Action!!
Dhoni bludgeoned Steyn in the penultimate over to reach his fifty in just 29 balls. But India had never been less appreciative. The country didn't want sixes. They wanted history to be made. To make matters worse, Dhoni took a single off the last ball.
India vs SA, 2nd ODI, Sawai ManSingh stadium, Gwalior. History being made.
Over: 48.5, Action!!
Dhoni bludgeoned Steyn in the penultimate over to reach his fifty in just 29 balls. But India had never been less appreciative. The country didn't want sixes. They wanted history to be made. To make matters worse, Dhoni took a single off the last ball.
Six balls to go. Dhoni on strike. Tendulkar still on 199.
Charl Langeveldt runs in and the whole nation chants for a single. But Dhoni smashes it for a huge six. Never has there been such a subdued response in India.
Hearts started pounding louder but Dhoni connects another cleanly. Another sureshot boundary but a diving Hashim Amla stops the ball and Tendulkar shouts a loud - NO - to a second run. The whole stadium erupts. First for Amla. Then for Tendulkar.
After a dot ball, Tendulkar taps it past point and that was it. History. The greatest becomes greater.
But as it is always the case in India, everything comes with a little bit of drama.
This is perhaps the beauty of sport, that there is drama, there is intense drama and it is LIVE!!
Can it get any better for any Indian cricket fan!
PS: This is taken verbatim from www.cricketnext.in (http://tinyurl.com/ybf9jjb)
