Gautam Gambhir batted out of his skin and gave it away. Was he too pumped-up for his own good? Did the Pakistanis get to him? When the bat was doing all the talk, what insanity to start gesticulating wildly with the handle? And what he doing charging down the wicket for what would have, at best, been a high-risk single when fours and sixes seemed the natural order? And pray, why didn't he put in a dive?
Ans: You get frozen feat when you face up to a lion, because a lion instills fear in you. India saw that in Pakistan team.
Brain freeze two: In plain disregard of common sense, Virat Kohli, the young man who some consider the future of Indian batting, decides to take on Shahid Afrdi and the man on the long-off boundary and lofts the ball straight to him. India were then 126 for 2 off 21.2 overs.
Ans: Virat Kohli actually began to think that the media hype and propoganda that surrounds him is actually true ...
The final act. Rahul Dravid, the last man standing, eases the ball to deep cover and completes a comfortable two. Harbhajan Singh now wants a third. Then he doesn't. Now Dravid wants it. Harbhajan is now persuaded. But no, the ball is on its way now. Dravid backpedals, he is cramping now, and he slips. He is a mess. The stumps are now broken. It's all over for India.
Ans: Rahul Dravid is a good batsmen, but how many crucial games has he won, this is why Sachin is not the undisputed best batsmen, he got runs in irrelevant matches, he chokes in important time.
They lost by 54 runs. But 31 balls were still to be bowled. MS Dhoni put India's failed chase down to the loss of too many wickets. It was in stark contrast to Pakistan's calculated, controlled, polished and smooth building of a monumental score.
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