The Sehwag Triple - A melange of moments - Part X
April 1st 2008 14:24
Morne Morkel is replaced with Dale Steyn. And his first ball is delicately sliced all along the ground between point and 3rd man for yet another boundary. Brilliant batting sustained. To bat brilliantly is one thing. But to sustain it for such long periods is simply a mark of a complete package of supreme skill, tenacious temperament, voracious desire and ocean-deep concentration.
Go, Sehwag, go!
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Sehwag in the 290s dances down again to hapless Harris and launches the ball into orbit. That is a towering six which takes him to 297. He gets beaten attempting a cut the next ball - too close for comfort and then takes a single very intelligently. He is now on 298 and has the strike the next over.
Get ready Gentlemen and Ladies to congratulate this mammoth innings from a batsman at the peak of his powers!
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Sehwag's favourite whipping boy Ntini is brought on. Greame Smith does seem to have it in against Ntini
Sehwag slams a straight drive which looks to be going to the boundary but the mid on and mid off are straighter and that is restricted to a mere single. 299.
Dravid gets a wide one which he misses. But Boucher cannot collect cleanly and a bye is scampered through. Remember that we are talking about a batsman on 299.
Sehwag on strike - a fulltoss on his pads and is helped thorugh for another single.
There, ladies and gentlmen is the fastest 300 in the history of the game and the best knock that Chennai has seen.
And folks - there is a dearth of adjectives now to describe this effort from Virender Sehwag. Monumental, let me say and leave it at that.
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