Tendulkar’s 175- The best inning of 2009

Hyderabad was the venue where huge crowd had turned up anticipating the master blaster to reach another milestone of 17,000 runs in ODI cricket. It was long awaited.

Australia scored 350 at the end of 50 overs and off the very last ball of the match Tendulkar took a brilliant catch to dismiss Cameron White and the way he reacted clearly suggested he had something special going in his mind.

Chasing has never been easy for the Indian side and a gigantic score of 350 runs was close to a mission impossible (who can forget the 2003 World Cup Final). Yet the crowd cheered as Tendulkar came to bat as reaching 17,000 runs was what they were expecting him to reach first. As soon as Tendulkar completed his 17,000 runs the crowd went gaga. Indian flags dominated all other colours of the stadium and the roar was deafening! The commentators righty said, “It’s not just Sachin Tendulkar’s runs these all are runs that the crowd feels are their own”. But even these fans didn’t know that they were supposed to watch one of the best innings ever played on the very same day by the legendary master! Tendulkar was in a different mood and though wickets kept falling on the other end the master continued to play at his very best. The Aussies clearly knew that the master was capable enough to win the match for his side single handedly. Punter tried his best but Tendulkar was in no mood to give away his wicket. The only bad shot he played throughout the day he was the one which got him out. India still needed 19 runs off 17 balls and the stadium paralyzed with the wicket of Tendulkar. The master got out at the score of 175runs off just 141 balls which included 19 fours n 4 sixes. He had scored exactly half of the Australian total and unfortunately the rest of the team couldn’t score the rest half. In spite of the best efforts India fell short by 3 runs.

Rarely are we delighted after an Indian defeat. This match was an exception. Everybody knew that the Indians fell short by 3 runs but the Indian hearts were so much privileged to watch Tendulkar’s fabulous knock and it almost didn’t matter what was the result as everybody kept repeating the same sentence “What an innings Master! What an innings!” We all are truly privileged to watch this innings. One of my friends rightly says whether the upcoming generation would ever be able to understand what cricket is without Tendulkar.

During the match presentation Arun Lal asked the master what kind of motivation does he carry when he goes in to bat in such situations, the master replied in the most subtle manner as he always does, he said, “It’s the passion. I care about playing for India. It has always been a dream and I am absolutely honored that I have been able to do that for the last 20 years” He has been living his dream to play for India since his debut and it is our dream to watch him playing as long as possible! All the best master!

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