Cricket is a sport that has no room for predictions. Anything can happen anytime. When the Indian team arrived in South Africa to play the first T20 World Cup in 2007, no one saw India as a rival. But then we saw the young Indian team under the leadership of Mahendra Singh Dhoni defying the expectations of others and lifting the cup.
T20 World Cup 2007 is one of the memorable moments that remain in the mind of every cricket fan even today. It can be said that the thrill experienced when India lifted the cup after defeating arch-rivals Pakistan in the finals has never been there. Apart from India’s victory, another moment that still lingers in the minds of fans was born in that tournament. It was a legendary moment, the likes of which world cricket has not witnessed till then. The beautiful moment when India’s only ‘Yuvraj’ hit England fast bowler Stuart Broad’s chest.
Yuvraj Singh is one of the players with match winning capability in world cricket. It was seen in the first T20 World Cup which underlines it once again. When India came to play against England at the Durban ground on September 19, no one thought that a great record in the history of cricket would be created. The match against England was crucial for India, who lost their first match against the Kiwis. Batting first, India got off to a good start with openers Gambhir (58) and Sehwag (68).
Yuv reaches the crease in the 17th over after Robin Uthappa is dismissed. Then the Indian score was 171 for three. Things turned around when Andrew Flintoff came to bowl the 18th over. UV scored two consecutive boundaries against Flintoff. Yuvraj, who was on the pitch with captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, was scratched after Flintoff, who gave away 12 runs in his over, completed the over. Later, there was an altercation between the two on the field. Finally, the umpires intervened to end this beating.
But it was the then 21-year-old fast bowler Stuart Broad who was the blaze in Yuvraj’s Copagni. Broad’s six missed the boundary as Yuvi finished off Andrew Flintoff. Yuvraj hit the first ball of the 19th over bowled by Broad for a six over mid-wicket. Second ball flicked over square leg and into the fans. 3rd ball to the off side. That’s six and a half. Stuart Broad was under a lot of pressure as he hit consecutive sixes in the first 3 balls of the over.
Broad was bowled by a full toss of the fourth ball and Yuvi easily smashed him for a six. With this, the camera captured Flintoff’s face, whose eyes were fielded. The fifth ball bounced off Yuvi’s bat and crossed the boundary over midwicket. Ravi Shastri was cheering from the commentary box as the sixth and final ball crossed the boundary over long-on. Yuvi’s half-century from just 12 balls and the record for the fastest 50. That was the day Flintoff really realized what would happen if he scratched UV. This memory turns 16 today.
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2023-09-19 09:00:00
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