Former India cricketer Virender Sehwag has made a massive revelation about the clash between India and Pakistan in the 2003 World Cup.
On August 28, India will face Pakistan in a high-profile match in the men’s Asia Cup 2022. Both teams will meet for the first time since the T20 World Cup game last year, when Babar Azam’s men defeated India by a score of 10-wickets. However, matches between India and Pakistan have always been intense, drawing significantly more attention in recent years after their encounters were limited to global (ICC) and continental (Asian Cup) tournaments.
Whenever India and Pakistan take each other on, it usually precedes a massive hype and one of the games which can never not be forgotten en route to the build-up is the 2003 World Cup clash between both countries. India’s batting great Sachin Tendulkar produced a magnificent performance in the game, scoring 98 off just 75 deliveries as India chased down a 274-run target with six wickets remaining, keeping their unbeaten World Cup streak against Pakistan intact.
Tendulkar famously smashed Shoaib Akhtar for 18 runs in his first over of the innings, prompting Akhtar to be removed from the attack in the first overs of the game. The Indian opener continued his solid batting performance in the innings, but cramps forced him to call Virender Sehwag as a runner at one point. Sehwag has revealed what happened after that, 19 years later.
“We knew it was an important game. But Tendulkar was so experienced, he had played so many games against Pakistan.. he knew that he need to be prepared for it. If I have to consider his World Cup knocks, it was his best. I also came to run for him during the game because he was having cramps, and Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi was abusing him a lot, kept saying something or the other. But he remained focused. He knew it was important for him to stay at the crease. He usually doesn’t take a runner, but still he knew that if I come, I will run like he does. There won’t be any misunderstanding,” Sehwag said
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