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yep this was a good knock.. i have this disc pack sent by my brother where there are about 15-20 centuries i guess scored by Indian batsmans overseas.. and also some Indian bowlers 5 fors.. it has this one too.. i think it was called super centuries, host as alank wilkins on espn/star

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Awesome. The last shot was unbelievable. There was width all right but it was short of good length and Tendulkar hammered it through the gap. What a player :thumbs_up:

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My, oh my, oh my! What batting! A bowler of the stature of Allan Donald was reduced to praying. This was exceptional. Two shots will stay in the memory forever. The very first, where he nonchalantly stood on tiptoes off the backfoot and despatched Donald through point, and the second, the very last coruscating extra cover drive played on the rise with the finesse of an artist to get to his 150. The look on Donald's face! Pred, brilliant work with the videos, BTW. It's showing up on the number of new registrations and the hit count.

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One of the best fightbacks in Indian cricket, possibly even in world cricket. India had lost 4 wickets for nothing when Sachin came in and that became 5 for very little as VVS was dismissed. In walked Azhar and the two put the South African bowlers to sword. The counterattack not only took South African bowlers by surprise but even the commentators/experts were left scratching their heads if ever such a patnership was seen on South African soil? I have faint memory of this game but I if I not mistaken about 220 runs were put together by these two in about 3 hours or so. Against an attack of Donald, Pollock, Klusener, McMillian both batsmen scored at a brisk pace with Azhar scoring more than a run a ball hundred. This innings should be widely celebrated and showed to every budding Indian batsmen on how to try to pull yourself out of a corner..and what amazing array of strokes too. Great video, thanks for sharing Predz.

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man it took an unbelievable and remarkably lucky catch to dismiss him that day. he just ran out of partners in the end, had he had just one more decent batsman to follow, he would have piled on the hurt!

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Thank god someone saved my video. I thought it was lost for good...:(( [ame=

- Sachin Tendulkar century vs South Africa, 1996/97[/ame] This is the best innings he has ever played, IMO. Best batsman ever, plays the kind of shots most people couldn't play in their dreams
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That shot off Alan Donald through extra cover has to be one of the best shots he ever played.Showing complete authority over the fastest bowler back then !

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Nice to see that video again. Wasn't it the shot that he played to get 100, around 6:18 in video, that Donald mentioned in an article or book?

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Nice to see that video again. Wasn't it the shot that he played to get 100' date=' around 6:18 in video, that Donald mentioned in an article or book?[/quote'] No Anakin. Donald mentioned about couple of boundaries Tendulkar hit off him in the Durban test.
Which is why I rate my dismissal of Tendulkar at Durban in 1996 as the best ball I've ever bowled in Test cricket. I remember that over very clearly. Tendulkar had just hit me for two boundaries, but I decided to stick to my outside-the-off-stump line. The ball just nipped back sharply and claimed his off-stump. It was a perfect ball and, more importantly, exposed a tiny chink in the army colonel's armour. Since then we have worked on bowling that ball against Tendulkar and have had some degree of success with it
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