The Sehwag Triple - A melange of moments - Part VII
April 1st 2008 14:05
Sehwag was toying with one of the top Test team's attack to such an extent that come the last ball before Tea, when the opposition new ball bowler Ntini warily bounded in to finish off one more of his dismal sessions, and delivered the ball right on length on off stump, he would have thought - Ah, job done! But how was he to know that Sehwag does not bother whether it was a length ball on off stump or not. That ball was powered between cover and mid off with a slightly inclined bat and with a straighter foot movement. The secret to that stroke was that he created his own room by not moving towards the ball but moving his feet alongside and giving the bat free room to swing through, crashing into and beyond the speeding cherry.
Neet it be mentioned that nobody moved. And before Ntini could finish his follow through and look back at where the ball had gone....again...Sehwag had tucked the bat by his side and had walked off nonchalantly to take his Tea. No Tea was more well-deserved, one can say.
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As a friend points out an Indian historian and cricket writer seems to have remarked - "Who needs Twenty20 when you can play Test cricket in such a manner"?
Well - my response with a twinkle in the eye was - "Ah, skewer the imbecile up a pole! He is simply an old fogey who is so hung up with T20 because it threatens Test cricket. What does he know, eh"?!
"The nerve of him....talking about T20 when the IPL is just around the corner...."
Neet it be mentioned that nobody moved. And before Ntini could finish his follow through and look back at where the ball had gone....again...Sehwag had tucked the bat by his side and had walked off nonchalantly to take his Tea. No Tea was more well-deserved, one can say.
----------------------------- ----------------------------- ---
As a friend points out an Indian historian and cricket writer seems to have remarked - "Who needs Twenty20 when you can play Test cricket in such a manner"?
Well - my response with a twinkle in the eye was - "Ah, skewer the imbecile up a pole! He is simply an old fogey who is so hung up with T20 because it threatens Test cricket. What does he know, eh"?!
"The nerve of him....talking about T20 when the IPL is just around the corner...."
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