India vs England 1st Test Highlights Day 4 Chennai | Sehwag The Butcher
England Batting
India Batting
Scoreline: England 311/9 declared. Strauss and Collingwood centuries.
India 131/1. Target 387. Sehwag 83.
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Virender Sehwag was in Butcher of Najafgarh mode going for a win.
Prematch one wondered about the importance of the morning session to decide the possible choices for India – had England scored faster, these choices would have been whittled down to a draw or loss. But England played a strange post-lunch session. At one stage just two 4’s had been hit in 24 overs. Zaheer Khan (in particular) and Ishanth Sharma bowled brilliantly. Zaheer’s final figures were a ridiculous 27-40-3.
Strauss became one of few to score a hundred in both innings of a test but frustrated even the English spectators at the ground in the process. Harbhajan’s reaction after getting him – a slap to his forehead – pretty much summed up the grinding knock that refused to be uprooted.
A sensational knock by Virender Sehwag followed – 83 off 68 balls and that’s only because he slowed down a little when Monty Panesar started an Ashley Giles line of attack to which Sehwag responded in jest with a Chanderpaul sort of stance. His first 50 runs came off just 32 balls.
Gambhir appeared to be lucky when a glove-sniffer was ruled not out.
Absolutely must-watch stuff from Sehwag, eventually out after looking a trifle bored a few deliveries before his end.
India going for a win has now become almost a mandatory choice. What a day of cricket tomorrow. Will Rahul Dravid seize the moment. Will Tendulkar obliterate the pain of losing to Pakistan on the same ground, after single-handedly bringing India within a few runs of a win.
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