Innings of a life time

Sachin plays out of his skin and unfurls one of his masterpieces. Maybe one of his top 5 innings (test + one days).  I was in a sad meeting but was still looking up cricinfo whenever required. So I can say that I was there :)

This was poetic justice at its lyrical best in more ways than one. Sachin hitting the winning runs on Chepauk to wash away the tears of another fretful fifth day, completing the century with the same shot. A Mumbai boy playing a stellar role after the Mumbai carnage, the English coming back to show solidarity with India. 

Bhajji on first day, coach on second day and Sehwag on fourth morning, bullish about Indian victory, while the English dominating the ground with two centuries from Strauss. Was that just intuition or positive thinking or New India (TM), no one is sure.

All of it is just like a dream, something that has never happened before.

But I for one won't consider Sachin's innings, even if it is one of his best, best of this match.

It did everything: ensured victory, avoided defeat, he played as if the huge crater at good length on off stump did not exist. But if we are to rate contributions objectively, here is how I rate them:

1. Sehwag

2. Sachin  (Yuvraj+Gambhir) (Harbhajan+Zaheer) tied at second spot.

I know it is a flamebait but before the bhaktagana in their torpor forget what cricket is all about and what exactly happened, I am documenting it, the truth and nothing but the truth.