The semi-final encounter between India and Australia in the in💟augural T20 World Cup in 2007,🍌 held in Durban, South Africa, turned out to be a high-octane clash.
Initially, it was Yuvraj Singh and Robin Uthappa☂, along with a few finishing blows from Indian captain MS Dhoni, which helped India post a stiff target of almost 190 in front of the Aussies.
The contest is also remembered for S Sreesanth’s fiery spell where he ended up conceding only 12 runs and picked a couple of vital wickets.
After being handed the new ball, Sree sent back the dangerous looking Adam Gilchrist upfront. The third-wicket partnership between Matthew H𝄹ayden and Andrew Symonds was threatening to take the game away from🌄 the Indians.
In his second spell, Sree came back to pick the wicket of Hayden who scored a quickfire 62. The Kerala speedster cleaned up both the Australian op꧂eners with absolute peaches, as the formidable duo lost their stumps.
Sre🌊e, in his trademark manner, gave an animated send-off to the openers, much to the joy for the 𒅌spectators. Now, the two-time World-Cup winner revealed about how a pep-talk from Dhoni helped him being extra-motivated.
“Dhoni bhai motivated me. He said you keep showing your aggression here and there; now do it against Australia. I think it worked like a key mechanism for me because I got fired up at the right time. The first ball, Hayden hit me for a boundary because I tried a yorker. That was the plan because I had seen Shoaib Akhtar get him out to the same ball,” Sree said on Youtube channel ‘Cow Corner Chronicles with Chandresh’.
India ended up winning the match by a comfortable margin of 15 runs, as the Blue Brigade entered into the🐭 final of the tournament whඣich they eventually won against arch-rivals Pakistan.
