‘Sachin Tendulkar’s Missed Ton vs Pakistan Helped India Win 2011 World Cup’, Virender Sehwag Explains

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Former Indian opener Virender Sehwag revealed a dialog he shared with iconic cricketer Sachin Tendulkar after the ‘Grasp Blaster’ failed to attain a century towards Pakistan within the semi-final of the 2011 World Cup. Sachin opened with Sehwag and performed a powerful knock of 85 earlier than being dismissed by right-arm off-break spinner Saeed Ajmal. Sehwag who was sitting within the dugout smiled at Sachin after he returned and Sachin handed a smile to him as effectively.

Sehwag went on to speak concerning the dialog they’d after this in a press convention and mentioned, “Sachin advised me I do know why you’re smiling, I requested why. He mentioned you’re pondering that I obtained out earlier than making a century, if I scored the ton we might have misplaced. I mentioned to him how are you going to learn what’s in my coronary heart, you made two centuries one we misplaced and the second obtained tied. Thank god he did not make 100 and we have been in a position to win the World Cup.”

India shall be eager to duplicate the triumph of the 2011 World Cup with the mega match as soon as once more being held in India.

The ‘Males in Blue’ kicked off their marketing campaign with a hard-fought victory towards towards Australia in Chennai. They are going to be eager to increase their successful run towards Afghanistan on Wednesday and acquire some momentum earlier than they face Pakistan in Ahmedabad on Saturday.

India squad:Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul (wk), Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Mohammed Shami, Suryakumar Yadav and Shardul Thakur.

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