My eyes were glued to the Live scorecard of Cricinfo, hand busy trying to refresh the page every single second- Just to see who would be the greatest among the greats! Pakistan had everything going in favor of them until tat last deadly over or taking it further more- the impeccable performance by Mike Hussey. They had put up challenging 191 on the board- Thanks to the Akmal bros notching up a 50 piece with Butt chipping in an useful 32. Then they got Aussies on the backfoot- picking up early wickets, all of their bowlers having a really good economy. Until the Whites and the Husseys cut loose sending the ball all over the park. Started with White- who I have never seen play for RCB- True Desh bhakth- but got out when they had 50+ runs to chase. It was never easy for the tail enders to whack around. But Hussey was the man- he had in him the sleeping devil who unleashed his wrath- sending the ball over the boundary. Still 18 required- I thought Pak had still chances of winning- but Jhonny was intelligent enough to get him a single and the devil smashed- 6-6-4-6 Can u imagine that? I was just speechless, shocked- omg Aussies have made it to the finals 😦 Continue reading
Semifinal- Twenty20 World Cup- Pakistan v/s Australia and Team India
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finishing Pointless and Ferrari having a bad day @Silverstone, India performing miserably in the Asia Cup Final, Dhoni & Co always flatter at the final hurdle :(, then there’s the epic match between Federer and Nadal, which was an edge of a seat thriller. So all in all it was a eventful Sunday. India could have surely done better than what they performed in the Asia Cup final. 273 target was chaseable and with the in-form Indian top order having Sehwag, Gambhir, Raina, Yuraj and Rohit Sharma, and not to forget our captain Dhoni, I thought that India would be the Asia Cup Champions. But there was a different story to tell. It was earlier Jayasuriya who blasted Indian bowlers all around the park and later on Mendis rocked the Indian top order to signal the end of India’s great run of form. This is not the first time Dhoni and Co have flattered in the final hurdle, they have done it on many previous occasions. I had mentioned about it in my earlier 
fight, though they couldn’t stop fired up Raina and all elegant Gambhir, but they had a better batting display. Alok Kapli’s well crafted century backed by a patient knock by Tamim Iqbal gave Bangladesh bowlers something to defend. It would be obviously difficult to defend and especially with players like Gambhir, Raina, Yuvraj, Dhoni all charged up and having a great run of form. But Bangla boys began on a good note getting Uthappa and Rohit Sharma early. But things started to change and got worse as Raina and Gambhir got together. They went after bangle Bowlers smashing them all around the green park. Raina is having a great time at Asia Cup and has 2 centuries and 1 fifty to his credit out of the 3 matche he had played. ust when Gambhir looked all set to get to his first hundred of the tournament, he was caught by Mortaza of Farhad Reza’s bowling. By then much of the damage had been inflicted and Yuvraj came out in the middle to perform the last rites. Indians chased down Bangladesh’s 283 in well under 44 overs with the loss of just 3 wickets. Raina remained not out scoring 116 off just 107 balls with 3 sixes.
experimental rule allowing the players to seek a second review on the On-field umpires decision will be used during the upcoming India-Sri Lanka Test Series from July 23 in Colombo.