Delight for India, Despair for the Aussies

Mithali Raj won a crucial toss and elected to bat first against a dominant Australian Team. After losing openers early, Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaur built up a crucial partnership to steady India’s progress. However after losing Mithali Raj, Kaur took the battle on herself and arguably played one of the best innings one could ever witness. 

Australia were at the receiving end of one of the all time great World Cup innings by Harmanpreet Kaur. She slammed 20 fours and 7 sixes enroute to a scintillating 171*(115) setting six time Champions Australia a daunting total. World Cup? Do or die match? Pressure? Harmanpreet Kaur had no clue. She also had one of the most epic meltdowns when. She thought her partner had been run out, which was less elegant, though I enjoyed the passion there in. 

The mighty Aussies lost 3 early wickets in the start. Villani and Blackwell once planned to give the Aussies a ray of sunshine, but both failed. They were sensational after Australia had stumbled, but India were far too strong. Jhulan Goswami, Deepti Sharma and Shikha Pandey were brilliant with the ball. 

Team India remain unstoppable, essentially thanks to Harmanpreet’s magnificent knock, backed up by splendid bowling and fielding.

Intent. Anxiety. Eyes rolling upward in frustration. Controlling Jaws. Snap. Leap. Weep; we have seen it all in this Semi Final Match. While one team basked in the thrill of reaching the finals, the other bunch manifested a million of emotions, cricket, the sport, brings. One day you lose, one day you win. But, sport remains the ultimate winner! And so then, there was only one winner in a SEMI-FINAL GAME and that team was Team INDIA!

India have made their Second World Cup Final and will play that grand finale against England at one of the grandest stages of them all, Lord’s. The tournament began with a India vs England game, it will end the same way. Here’s wishing Team India luck for the Finals. 

Absolute Freak – Roger Federer

It was a memorable milestone for Roger Federer, who became the first in the history of Wimbledon Championships to lift the title eight times. 

But it was not a memorable final. What we will remember is the despair of Marin Calic, who became in carrying a damaged left foot. After a brief and uncompetitive second set, Cilic took a medical time out. The real question was whether Federer would be able to maintain his concentration? The answer was yes. Federer has played well over 1300 matches in his career. He might not have been in this situation before on the Centre Court, bit he has surely seen it somewhere.  

Roger Federer, as ruthless as he had to be and as lovely to watch as ever took only 1hour 41 minutes to won his 8th Wimbledon Title.  In the end, an ace clinched Roger Federer’s 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 victory. It was the first time he had won Wimbledon without dropping a set. 

2003 🏆

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And now, say hello to 

2017 🏆

ROGER INHUMAN FEDERER!!

Virat Run Machine Kohli

It happened in Antigua, yes. But to expect India to buckle twice in successive low chases was asking for too much. Windies consecutively won 5 straight tosses and could muster a low total of 205/9 on board.
Mohammed Shami and Umesh Yadav chipped in on the perfect intervals. A top order collapse and a worse collapse towards the end wreaked a havoc for the Windies.

India witnessed an early blow as Shikhar Dhawan walked to the pavilion in the very first over. But the defensive stand between Kohli-Rahane-Karthik took the game out of their hands. 

King Kohli. Master Kohli, once again showed why he loves chasing. The Indian skipper put in a trademark shift that included wristy flicks, sublime drives and powerful pulls with huge sixes to bring up his 28th ODI hundred. After two back-to-back failures Kohli was back in his element. He took the spinners and the pacers at equal ease and notched up his 28th ODI ton

Virat KOHLI goes past Sachin Tendulkar to hold the record of most number of centuries while chasing IN ODI. 

He played a chanceless knock and dictated the terms. He showed his class and brought up his 28th ODI century, a record 18th while chasing.