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When most of the cricket fans were busy extrapolating England’s total that would challenge the Indian batting to avoid test defeat blushes on Day 5 and some more relishing the Success of a unsung hero’s 501 wickets and few others savoring the worlds most controversial bowler’s 600 wickets, 22 men were on a mission to script one the most scintillating cricketing epic in the history of the game, somewhere else in Johannesburg.
It was one of those days when even the greatest bowlers would ever think of making their son a bowler anymore and cry out in agony, “It a F***ing Batsmen’s game...”.But the 32000 capacity crowd gathered to watch the game live, and the millions of cricket fans world over, obviously did not complain, for it was the most stunning display of powerful hitting by the batsmen, carting the cricket ball to all parts of Johannesburg. The match in which, 872 runs, 87 boundaries and 25 sixes scored in a day was probably the best One –Day match one could ever imagine to see, when two of the best cricketing nations engaged in a war of the willows.
Never ever would you see two dashing players with almost similar batting style bludgeoning their way to mammoth centuries, matching shot to shot. Never ever would you see bowlers treated with so much disdain to make Centuries. Never ever would the scorers need to use a ‘4’ in the hundreds place, twice within 5 hours. Never ever could you use the clichéd phrase, “Anything is possible in a game of cricket until the last ball is bowled”, with so much conviction.
It was a day when records broke like the bowlers hearts, a day when the best of punters faltered in guessing who’s going to win, a day when a record which has been unruffled for 10 long years has been broken twice within a span of 8 hours, a day when the World Champions would feel embarrassed to talk about their highest one-day total ever.
Full credit to the Proteas for whom this match was not only a series decider but also an answer to the humiliation they suffered in the Down under, earlier this year.

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