The Mother of all Matches

The mother of all matches India vs Pakistan in a world cup semi finals, the last time both these teams meet in a knock out stage was back in 1996 in the quarter finals of the Wills World Cup, which is my first memories of a world cup, though I saw that match I don't remember much and there is no way that I felt the voltage of such an high ocatain match. India vs Pakistan is the mother of all clashes, the Ashes and the India vs Australia feud comes only second and third in a long long way. Having sent the Aussies back home everybody was expecting us to defeat the Pakistanis but that did not happen with its fair amount of twit and glamor. This match broke every bodies expectations, no one would have expected the matche to be witness by both the countries prime ministers, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi was only one among other hundreds of celebrities who stormed to Mohaili, Industrialist, Bollywood actors were all there to witness this historic and high voltage match.

As the match progress I felt that the channel should have had a warning note that its strictly not for weak hearts, that is the reason I dint watch most of the Pakistani innings though there are some superstitious reasons behind yet, though I am a rational thinker and have a positive and pleasant outlook on everything, I don't wish to follow those when India is playing in the field and I know that I am not alone, when god him self follows superstitious in the dressing room why should I shy away and hid myself!

Tina Ambani had purchased tickets worth 4 Crores, the rest of the crowed had paid a huge price to get into the stadium, tickets were sold for 1000% the actual rate and not very surprisingly there were fair amount of takers for that too

Sehwag produced a smashing start hitting their key pace bowler all over the park and making the opponent dismantle in the first few minutes of the start of the play, 4 fours was hit in one of his over and Umar Gul's first 4 overs caused him 40 Runs, Sachin on the other side was rock solid and happy playing the singles and doubles and remembering the Pakistani's his batting class with occasion classic pushes to the boundaries. As Sehwag got out quickly things began to change drastically and the most frightening moment was when Sachin was give out for an LBW, I am sure that over Million people would have had their hearts in their mouth cursing everything, but then Sachin consulted with Gambhir and decided to go for the review, the Hawk Eye showed that it was missing leg, Mohali erupted and the whole nation followed but the very next ball it looked like he was stumped, it was again for the third umpire to judge and it showed that his leg was in! in these two balls more people's heart would have skipped beat than for any other occasion. What followed after a few minutes was unbelievable, Sachin was dropped 4 times in the ring, he went to make 85 falling short of his 100th Century