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Read the article where Sehwag acknowledges that he believes it was a deliberate no-ball and talks about how Sri- lanka has done it before with Sachin Tendulkar
Glimpse of what would be the day like for Sri Lanka began the first ball of the day ; Tharanga’s off stump disturbed by a peach of a delivery from Praveen Kumar, pitching on leg -middle and out swinging to disturb the unsure opener’s stick. Nehra started his spell with swing, accuracy and bounce, but it was the extra pace that made Sangkarra to hit a skier which was easily grabbed by Ojha at mid-wicket. Mahela didnt look comfortable either and wickets kept falling regularly at one end with Dilshan trying to save some grace on the other. Sri lankans were reduced to 7 for 100 odd runs and a cameo from Randiv (43 off 61) helped Sri lanakans post 170 on board.
Sadly, this was not the only shocking cameo by Randiv. Not without the initial jitters of Kohli brilliantly caught by Sangakarra on nought and Rohit sharma wrongly adjudged LBW without troubling the scorers either, India managed to cruise to a comfortable win and a bonus point with the help of Sehwag’s brilliant century – well almost a century and good support from Raina and Dhoni.
With India needing 5 runs and Sehwag on 99*, Randiv’s first ball went for 4 byes. The nect run came off a No-Ball. And shocker of a illegal delivery it was with Randiv’s back foot almost crossing the crease. Nevertheless Sehwag hit that delivery for a six at long-off and completed yet another century the very Sehwag style with a Six only to find out that match was completed with the no ball and the six runs werent counted for Sehwag’s total.
Sehwag is a brilliant player and will cross more milestones and break records and its not about being deprived of a century .Batting for 3 days scoring 900 runs and killing the chance of result for personal records wasn’t enough for SriLankan cricket team. A sport where team and country is always placed first before individual performances and called a Gentleman’s game, this is what the Sri-Lankan cricket team sets as an example.
