Sachin Tendulkar struggled for about 7 hours with pain. Even after that India was defeated by Pakistan.
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Sachin Tendulkar’s hard work backfired. He stood firm for about 7 hours, yet success eluded him. As a result, India’s hopes were dashed. Although, this incident happened in India, but its happiness Pakistan Seen in Now you must be a little perplexed as to what is the matter? So this story is not from today but is 24 years old. Whatever happened happened in the Chennai Test played in 1999. And, today the discussion is happening because it is believed that the year was second but the date was of today only.
Chennai has been witness to many memorable Test matches. Like the 1986 India-Australia Test match tied. Or the 2008 India-England Test, where Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh chased 387 runs on the last day. But this was the match in which Sachin Tendulkar’s struggle that lasted for about 7 hours turned water.
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After 9 years, the Pakistan team came to India with the intention of playing the Test series. The first match of the Test series was in Chennai. And, the very first match happened in such a way that it was as if the breath had stopped. The match, which started on January 28, reached its conclusion on January 31. Pakistan batted first but its first innings ended at 238 runs. From India, Srinath and Kumble together took 9 wickets.
In response, India scored 254 runs in its first innings. For India, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid played half-century innings. But Sachin Tendulkar failed to even open the account in the first innings. Pakistan scored 286 runs in their second innings. Shahid Afridi played a big inning of 141 runs. This time Venkatesh Prasad bowled tremendously and took 6 wickets alone.
Struggling with pain, Sachin fought alone for almost 7 hours
When the Indian team came out to play the second innings, they had a target of 271 runs in front of them. India’s top order failed miserably in front of this target. Except Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin kept his feet alone on the wicket. In this he also got the support of Nayan Mongia. But, there was another in front of Sachin and that was that during this inning he was in trouble due to his back pain.
Despite the pain, Sachin tried to take his team closer to victory. Mongia also supported him well. Sachin batted a total of 405 minutes and scored 136 runs facing 273 balls. Mongia played an inning of 52 runs from the other end. But this effort of both of them failed to make India cross the threshold of victory.
India lost yet the people of Chennai danced
Sachin Tendulkar became the victim of Saqlain Mushtaq and Pakistan won by 12 runs. India lost this match in fist. Sachin was adjudged Player of the Match for his innings of 136 runs, but the pain of defeat along with the back made Sachin so battered that he could not even come to receive the award. On the victory of Pakistan, the audience of Chidambaram Stadium had applauded loudly and praised the performance of the Pakistani team.
