"A match to tie for!", thats what TOI referred to this eventful match. Once India scored a total of 338 runs who would have thought that England would have any chance of even coming closer to the this daunting total. But this is not true in the modern day cricket, now scores of 300 and likes are chase able targets, we have seen in past and this match was a witness to this new era of cricket. Twenty -Twenty and IPL have changed the way cricket was played, now we will often see these kind of scores and such close matches.
Sachin, The God, was in fabulous form and after a while I was pleased to see him play so aggressively. 338, and we as Indians thought the match is over and England at least would not give India such a fight. But we all know what it turned out. As Sachin was a star for the Indian batting innings so was Strauss who out performed Sachin in this match by playing the much needed 158 from 145 balls. At one time it seemed the England team would easily win the match but then Zaheer turned the match into home team's favor by pulling two crucial wickets in successive deliveries. Ajmal shahzad's six in the last over made the match even more interesting and last ball was the decider of the match. England needing 2 to win from 1 ball, but could only manage one run thus the match ending in a tie.
What would be a better result than this for two teams putting up such a wonderful show. None of them deserved to lose!!
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