Favorite Match

When someone ask me "which is your most favorite match ?" It remind me of only only one match which was played between India and Bangladesh, last year on 25/03/2016 at the super 10 stage of WCT20 at the Chinnaswamy stadium, Bangalore.

Bangladesh had won the toss and had chosen to bowl first. India started their inning very well bit on the last ball on 6th over, Rohit sharma lost his wicket. With this Indian inning started to collapes. At the end of 20 overs India score was 146/7 which was  very poor target to chase on the very famous batting pitch of Chinnaswamy

Bangladesh started their inning ,thinking of an easy win but the Indian skipper M.S Dhoni gave them surprise by getting the Indian spin attack at a very early stage.

On the 2nd ball of the 3rd over R. Ashwin took the first wicket of Mohammad Mithun and made Bangladesh realise that India will not let them win so easily. After loosing their 1st wicket Bangladesh tired to build up their partnership but Jadeja got the break through for India. And amazing stamping by MSD sent Sabbir back to pavelion. But still Bangladesh had complete control over the match. After 11 overs their score was 87/3 and they needed only 60 runs from 54 balls. Which was very easy to score with 7 wickets in hand

The last over was given to Pandya. He was given the responsibility to defend 10 runs.Bangladesh were 136/6 they needed 11 runs from 6 balls.

All this while I was sitting at home and was watching the match. since I follow cricket from childhood, I knew to score 10 runs in the last over and that to with young new bowler was a very easy task. It was 99.9 % clear that Bangladesh will win the match

The 1st ball went full and wide, and mahmudullal threw it to deep mid wicket and took 1 run.
2nd ball 4 runs, 3rd ball again 4 runs.
Bangladesh player started to celebrate as they only needed 2 runs from 3 balls to taste victory
At this movement I am sure 50-60% of Indian would have switched off their T.V and gone off to sleep. In fact even  I was about to do so. I got up from chair to put of the T.V but then I thought of watching the 3 balls remaining. I was now dam sure that Rashim will now hit the 3rd boundary and India will loose the match.    

And then Pandya Delivered his 4th ball, and it was caught by Dhawan. Still 2 runs from 2 balls. An easy win. MSD came to Pandya and gave his some suggestion and made changes in the field positions. Dhawan who took the catch on the previous delivery at deep mid wicket was replaced by one of the top fielders in the Indian playing 11, Jadeja.

While I was thinking what could be reason why MSD replacd Dhawan by Jadeja, the 5th ball was delivered and Jadeja took and outstanding catch of Mahmudullah and now 2 runs in 1 ball.
Suddenly Msd pulled off his right glove to throw in case of a bye.

6th ball Pandya to Shuvagata, Msd did not throw. He ran up to break the stumps. Mustafizur is Out India win...!!!!

I have attached a video with this post which shows the last ball of this thrilling match. But the twist in the tale is that this video is not taken by camera man nor from Chennai neither from the press or media.. But instead it was shoot by true fan watching the match from audience. And it has captured  MSD 's reaction before,during and after the last ball.. I Am sure most of you'll would be unaware of this one.. so make sure you watch it..


      

(Video by Divyprabhat Ambasta, YouTube)