Sachin and the 90s is something that I do here on Twitter where I pick matches where Sachin waged a lone battle as the rest of the batting line-up showed little resistance in the 90s.
Here is a thread on the first instance of that happening after Sachin's debut. Let's go
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Here is a thread on the first instance of that happening after Sachin's debut. Let's go
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After the tour of Pakistan and New Zealand, Sachin toured England for his third series at the age of 17. There were only two ODIs to be played on that tour and only a single limited over practice fixture which came right before the two ODIs. India had to take on Derbyshire in a+
55 over match. Derbyshire batted first and reached 137 for zero before losing their next six wickets for the addition of only 98 more runs. They ended with a score of 235 which India had to chase down. Also playing in the match was @irbishi who had made his West Indies debut+
a year before that. Bishop sent back Navjot Sidhu for a duck and that brought Sachin Tendulkar to the crease with the score only 5/1. We all know how desperately Sachin always wanted to open and this was his chance to give the selectors some food for thought about giving him the+
opening slot. Till this point, his scores in ODIs were 0,0,36. This wasn't an ODI but in Bishop, Mortensen and Miller, Derbyshire were fielding some really quality bowlers. If it needed any evidence, the rest of the batsmen gave it in the following hours. Raman fell for 17 and +
Azhar and Kapil Dev didn't even move to double figures. India had been reduced to 81/4 with most of their major batsmen back in the hut. Manoj Prabhakar joined Sachin and stitched a vital 53 run partnership but got run out with more than 100 runs left in the chase. More followed+
soon and at 144/6, 236 looked quite distant. The 17-year-old still stood there and got the company of his Mumbai senior Dilip Vengsarkar at the wicket after More's dismissal. That was enough as they both took the score to 210 and brought the team closer to a win. But then +
Geoff Miller struck twice and reduced India to 212/8. Sanjeev Sharma walked in at number 10 with Sachin inching close to a ton and India still some distance away from a win. Ian Bishop bowled the penultimate over with 12 runs required. He later recalled, "Last ball of the +
penultimate over and I thought this little guy is still batting. I will bowl him a short ball and get over with my spell, and he proceeded to hit the ball into a tree up at Queen's Park, Chesterfield."
The fate of the match had been sealed and also Sachin's ton was brought up.
The fate of the match had been sealed and also Sachin's ton was brought up.
India needed another 4 balls to wrap up the win in which Sachin finished with an unbeaten 105 from 149 balls while the next highest scorer was found in the Extras column. In an innings where nobody in the Indian batting lineup made more than 35 extras, a 17 year old boy scored
a match-winning century from number 3. Before this match, Sachin had expressed his desire to bat against WI pacers and that's why the management didn't rest him for the match when they saw Bishop was playing too. The little master came out with flying colors in the contest.
Here are more of the Sachin and the 90s tweets
https://twitter.com/RandomCricketP1/status/1395117346046431234?s=20
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