My Blog: March 2006

Today will go down as a very special day in the history of cricket. It was he first time a

team crossed the 400 run mark in a 50 over innings, and inspite of that, lost. After the hard hitting Australians scored a marvelous and record breaking 434 in the stipulated 50 overs losing just four wickets, I’d never thought that South Africa will even put up a decent fight-back, let alone win the match. Especially as South Africa has the tendency to yield under pressure. Today however was another day. The South African team was determined to prove all its critics wrong. They went on and on. Australia were looking helpless before the onslaught. Though the Australians kept

fighting till the last ball, though they kept on taking wickets (as many as nine) the day belonged to the hosts. It seemed that along with the jubilant crowd, even God was with the Proteas. Inspite of losing 9 wickets, they managed to score 438 with one ball to spare. Poor Aussies, they probably held the record of the highest total in One-dayers for the shortest span of time. Isn't this another world record? Well, there was another world record, I believe. Lewis gave away 113 runs in 10 overs, surpassing the recently created record by Murlidharan. His figures at the end of the match was 10 0 113 0 at the rate of 11.30 per over. The match as a whole would go down as one of the most exciting matches in the history of cricket ever. It's sad that I didn't watch the complete match. I hope to catch up on the highlights. I won't be missing many balls that way. ;-)

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