India posts the highest second innings winning total..

Dear Auro the commentator (Extra Cover)

A good performance from you as well as the team India!

I was bemused to find that you did appear on commentary box along with Murali Kartik.. it was quite some fun.. es[pecially when you said gaya, gaya and I don't like that man in the red shirt..

The best part was the googly that you bowled about your observation about the wides.. I would say what a great observation about assigning the reason for so many wides in such a short format.. very well said sir.. the bowler does try to dislodge the concentrtion of the batsman by conceding a single.. moreover when a batsman is predetermined to hit everything that is hurled at him.. these wides are likely to produce wickets in this format.. no, no, you were perfect in your observation even if both kartik and Attapattu could not read your observations.. they see everything from pure cricketer's angle where as these wides have human angle to it.. chauka maarega.. ab maar..

Well, I am extremely jubiliated for the win.. I did my part well.. at the beginning of the Indian innings I did walk out to get milk and smoke a cigarette.. later I tried to hang the clothes that were lying in the washing machine.. in the meantime India had started off well.. tobe frank with you did not believe ndia had much chance to start with but I remembered what you said to a request hurled at you to say something to Sehwag and Gambhir and you said chhakka maaro, chhakka maaro.. good that the team heard your answer.. ther were as many as ten sixes in the Indian innings and five from the birthday boy Yuvraj Sixing..

When I really found that India was doing not so bad I asked Amrit to put on the Television Inda had just then lost the Gambhir.. I was tempted not to watch the game lest Sehwag gets out.. apane dil ko arra karake maine socha jo higa dekha jaayega.. Dhoni continued to bat at number 3.. no problems.. I crossed my fingers when Viru was nearing his only second fifty in his entire T20 career.. when he did manage that I was satisfied.. I had thought that if he scores 50 off 30 balls India had fair chance of taking the game and he did get it in some 28 balls.. when I started expecting too much from him a century or atleast surpassing the highest score by an Indian (75 by Gambhir) he just disappeared from the scene while playing for another six and was caught at mid-off.. it was a charactteristic Viru knock.. 64 from just 36 balls.. and he laid a good foundation with two fifty run partnerships first with Gautam and then with the skipper.. that Dhoni and Yuvraj nearly won the game with their third wicket partnership of 80 runs.. it was quite evident that partnership matter in every format of the game.. that India could post the highest winning total in the short history of T20 cricekt when they surpassed Lanka's 206 and making 211 for four they had won a T20 game after 4 straight losses..with five balls to spare.. and with six wickets intact..

There were sixes in every top three scores of the Indian innings 64,46 and 60 * while India won the game by six wickets chasing Lanka's 206 for 7..
It was a memorable game.. I would not mind going out every time Sehwag has to bat.. He did play some commendable cricket.. Good team work..

Earlier Three wickets to Yuvraj singh and a wicket during your commentary had made some dent to Lankan innings which appeared to get past 215 that they made last time.. Kumar would always ask himself why he did not toss the ball to Sanath.. probably he answered it too well in the end..

A great contest now seems to be in the offing for One day series soon after..
Love and Thanks to Sehwag, Dhoni and Yuvraj for a memorable Indian win at last after a long time..

Abhaya Sharma