The brave one

I wouldn’t call that as a cricket match. I saw a battle field live; where a lone gladiator was fighting his soul out…. Reminded me of great wars in history, where soldiers face the opposition single handed! I would think there wasn’t any cricketer and there wouldn’t be any like this man. Once Gilchrist said, “Now I got to know how Sachin feels every time he walks out to bat”. From ball 1 pressure, pressure, surmount pressure. And coming to this innings, my whole family was before the TV. My grandmother was asking me what’s happening time and again because of her poor vision. All my cousins were gripped with tension and I can’t express the atmosphere there. Every time he came down the pitch, tension was surmounting. When he danced down the pitch and hit in the air, we screamed in unison!! Sachin played his only bad shot of the day and there was stun silence everywhere inside and outside TV. And what followed was inevitable as we had known about the quality of the tail. When Hauritz threw the ball right from long off, he would have missed the stumps by an inch but he was bang on in hitting through billions of hearts! I went right away, and lied down on one of myleather beds - couldn’t react anything.