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that's two in two...

by straight point

they got it wrong...for the man of match that is...

last time it was raina that played the blinder which enabled india to post a total beyond kiwis reach...but it was dhoni who got MoM...

this time it was the brilliant impetus provided by yuvraj which swelled india's total to proportions no one believed were possible...

earlier during the initial part of indian innings there were talks of two paced nature of the wicket and how a 260ish total will be a good one...india too were cruising along that line...

but not yuvraj...

after seeing off some balls he displayed the kind of unabashed 'west indian' stroke play he is feared for all over the world and turned the game on its head...

suddenly even 400 looked possible and achievable...

he was the deserving man of match for me...

31 comments:

Q said...

SP: Dhoni, Raina, Y Pathan - all of them could have done what Yuvi did.. Had Sehwag or Gambhir come to bat when Yuvi did, even they could have done what he did..

But no one could have done what Sachin did!

NO ONE :-)

India would not have reached 392 if it were not for Sachin..

McCullum summed it perfectly - "haven't seen an innings like that."

Sachin was perfect.

Ankit Poddar said...

i disagree SP,

sehwag should have been awarded MoM.

yuvi and sachin just played their natural games, it was sehwag who went against his nature of game, probably that is exactly what the team wanted!

Anonymous said...

Good call Straight Point. Tendulkar has been incendiary in the last couple of matches, but in both cases he was ignited by other players. Not to take anything away from Tendulkar, who played a sublime innings, but it was Singh who made the Indian innings what it was.

Anonymous said...

Don’t agree.

Yuvraj and Dhoni played the kind of innings that McCullum and Ryder played; although Ryder was faster.

But the difference between the sides was that Tendulkar carried on.

Prabu said...

SP: Yes Yuvraj did score those runs and ignited the scoring but he didn't carry on and 163 did he? If SRT had scored a score in the range of 100 and was given then your argument would hold merit but when someone scored 163 in a ODI at a SR of 125 how can you give it to anyone else is?

straight point said...

yes Q no one could have done what sachin did...

but i always look for the innings that cracks the game...and however i wish but it was yuvraj's innings that cracked the game not sachin's...

straight point said...

ankit...what you cooking maan...sehwag? ;-))

straight point said...

thanks and welcome at bored Ben...

it was youvraj who inspired not only sachin but others too...to do what they did...

straight point said...

leg break and prabhu...

yes sachin carried on...but if you look at the match again and who impacted the game it was certainly not him...

before YS came to crease the general consent was that it was 260ish kind a pitch...it was YS who not only broke the conception but showed how it can be done...others just encashed...coz one could see the remarkable change in attitude of not only sachin but other batsman who followed...suddenly the 'two paced' nature of pitch became irrelevant...

Ankit Poddar said...

SP,

i heard manjrekar go like, sehwag's wicket was probably a boon to sachin, for then he could go and play his shots... coz normally otherwise, he downplays his shots...

and i can't disagree with that thought..u know! ;)

straight point said...

majerekar also said if the other batsmen going great at other end...that does not mean that yo will just have to buckle down completely...if there is ball to be hit...hit it...

and i can't agree more with him... ;-))

Anonymous said...

No.

Both sides had batsmen who played decent cameos.

One side had a player with the class to go on.

That's MoM for you.

straight point said...

leg break...

lets agree to disagree then ..? :-)

Prabu said...

SP, let's see what the margin of victory was and let us see if the 80 runs that SRT scored more than Yuvraj made the difference or not! hmmm...

straight point said...

prabhu...

margin of victory is for the statisticians... :)

what i was trying to say is that even sachin's approach before YS started firing and after was evidently different...

to me it was clear cut case of him getting inspired from his lessor colleague (if you can say so...)

Q said...

Thats not true SP.. When Yuvi walked out to the crease, Sachin was on 39 off 46 and had hit 5 boundaries.. Sachin continued in the same vein throughout the innings.. he didn't shift gears after Yuvi came in, nor did he start attacking more.. he just continued what he was doing..

Yuvi at the end of the day played his usualy slam bag typical innings.. and as i said, anyone else walking out to bat at that time cud have done that. Absolutely no one cud have done what Sachin did - Sachin was the difference between the 2 sides, not Yuvi..

In fact I also think had Sachin not been at the other end, Yuvi might not even had played such an innings.. Sachin has been a calming influence on Yuvi on more than 1 occasion.. so for Sachin to be inspired by Yuvi - wat a joke :-)

straight point said...

Sachin continued in the same vein throughout the innings.. he didn't shift gears after Yuvi came in...

you said it for me Q...thats what i was pointing that it was YS who gave the much needed thrust to indian innings...

and to dismiss yuvraj's inning as slog will be highly insylting to that brilliant innings of his...

i revisited his innings again and i am yet to find a single shot of him which can be termed as slog...he has gifted talent of timing the ball only the way he can and you ask nz bowler who they feared most...you will get the answer...

his innings totally demoralized them to submission and that's why i change that though sachin played longer but his was not path breaking innings...

and i yet to find a funny angle in my statement that sachin was inspired/ignited by youvraj's... :)

straight point said...

sorry for many typos... :|

Q said...

SP - when u said that YS inspired Sachin I thought u meant that Yuvi's strokeplay inspired Sachin to bat more freely and attack.. my point was that Sachin was in attacking mood even before Yuvi came to the crease.. Sachin was batting on 39 off 46..

I didn't mean to say that Yuvi slogged in the actual meaning of the word.. I agree that Yuvi has a special gift and talent and everything else.. but that ain't even half of Sachin's gift and talent ...

Nz bowlers fear Sehwag the most from what ive heard them saying.. After the 3rd ODI, it would be Sachin :-)

Raina scored 38 off 18.. had he gotten the 60 deliveries Yuvi got, Raina would have got to a 100..

Anyhow, we can continue to argue abt this.. the fact is that Sachin deserved the MoM instead of Yuvi because:

1) Batting 45 overs, scoring 163 is not something everyone can do. Yuvi not at all..

2) Sachin's 163 was the difference between a winning and a losing score..

3) Ryder, Raina, McCullum, and even Mills did what Yuvi did.. Sachin was above them all..

straight point said...

ryder, raina...mccullum, mills had no option but to swing their bat...

ys entered crease when india's scoring rate was just about 5.00 and it went to nearly 7.5 in space of five-six overs! and during all this sachin was still maintaining about run a ball even at that stage...so its not rocket science who provided the impetus...

if you don't think this is turning match on its head...

we can agree to disagree then... :)

Q said...

Sure we can agree to disagree but I want to understand ur thinking SP..

So if I ask u, which innings was more crucial - Sachin's or Yuvraj's?

You would say Yuvraj's?

straight point said...

this is also not rocket science either...

hahaha... ;-D

straight point said...

jokes apart i always look at the innoings in terms of impact it made on game or opposition bowler...

much in the same way i still rate sehwag's innings higher in run chase in chennai against england coz that's what opened the gate for india to put its foot...

otherwise we would have been happy with draw (but for his innings)

Q said...

Hahahhaha.. but whyyyyyy? howwww?

I still don't get it..

Sachin's was the match winning innings.. simple :-)

Anonymous said...

One thing I really don't understand why nobody takes up one point which is clearly very irritating that of Dhoni promoting himself ahead of Raina. By any yardstick for the past one year he is a better playe by miles and he can definately hit the bowl out of the park. so for the 58 deliveries which dhoni faced raina could have scored a century it's such a nonsense !!!

straight point said...

...and Q

for the thing you said that nobody could have done it except sachin...what about this...?

india 387 in 50 overs against england... YS 138 in only 78 balls at a strike rate of 176.92 against much better attack than nz's consisting anderson, harmison, flintoff, broad on much bigger ground!!

what say!? :-D

straight point said...

very good observation indophile...

but than dhoni has this small matter of keeping his no.1 place on ICC table? ;-D

Anonymous said...

:-) Maybe thats the reason he has changed his batting style to slow motion . On top of that there is the curious case of Mr.Arun Lal who during the Srilankan tour keeps on proclaiming him as the hardest hitters in the game with Sehwag and Yuvraj true maye 3 years back when Srilanka was in India but now it seems like a joke on Sehwag and Yuvraj

Q said...

"YS 138 in only 78 balls at a strike rate of 176.92 "

Good one SP.. but he still didn't get 160 odd or hold one end up for 45 overs ;-)

straight point said...

will it interest you Q...that ys too remained not out in that innings?

what more a middle order batsman can do who don't have the luxury of playing as many overs as an opener?

Q said...

Not much more SP.. but Yuvi did not do in this match what he did against England.. in this match Sachin did that :-)