Day 4 of the test match, and world number 1 test side, is battling to save this test match. In any fairy tale, we always need a supper hero, someone like spiderman, who can use its power and can stop balls of steyn coming at 150 KPH by using spiderwebs. May be Batman, oops test matches are not still played in night, and Batman, cant come in day time. Then who can save India, oh i forgot one hero, the he-man of world cricket Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.
On day 4, india was in quite strong postion. A fantastic start by Virendar Sehwag, which almost blowed away new ball advantage from south africans on day 3. Sehwag got out after scoring 63 runs on 79 balls. I will not blame sehwag, because it was a fantastic strategy by indian think tank to allow sehwag to be as natural as possible. I feel any team in the world, will never attack, after coming in such a horrible situation, but India can, and it was a reasonable gamble till the end of day 3.
Day 4, started with the challange ahead of indians to save the test. But against a pace attack which is almost like a cannon, forcing batsman to go on back foot, and consistently creating doubts in batsman mind, it was expected my Cricketing gurus, that things may go in favour of south africans, and shockingly same thing happened. Collapse of middle order, after struggling, for some time, indicated only one thing, that No. 1 test side is in a huge danger for losing its crown to south Africans.
But like a fairy tales, a hero enters. This time, hero was Sachin Tendulkar and assisting him MS dhoni. Sachin and dhoni played very attacking cricket. When sachin and dhoni reached their respective half century, they were setteled and committed to convert this 50 in a long inning. Well atleast i expected this. But dhoni continued with his attacking style, while tendulkar took back seat, and enjoyed attacking cricket. Sachin slowly reached his 100, and i have to admit that, i was more nervous than sachin tenudlkar.
But in every fairy tale, things doesnt change so quickly. It was exit of MS Dhoni, after scoring quick 94. I will not term it as captain's inning, because team needed its captain in most extreme situation. But things doesn't go as you want them to go.
At the end of the day, India is struggling to save the test match. Sachin is still there, saving Indian Cricket Team from an innings loss. On the other side shreeshant is his partner.
Lets see, can indians fight back on Day 5. They are trailing by just 30 runs, but to save test match, they need to score more 230 runs with two valuable wickets in hand.
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