Rahul Dravid 128 vs Pakistan 2006
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00:00This is a real classic, no protection on the leg side, half only, asking for trouble.
00:18Huge grunt, but a great shot from Dravid, looking for the arc over Shoaib Akhtar, doesn't
00:23get it right, the margin of error very minimal, and Dravid pricks up a glorious boundary to
00:28end the fifth over, it's 22 for no loss.
00:35That's played fine, Shoaib Akhtar was very square, for reasons only known to him and
00:40Enzema.
00:411986, so they're up for the best.
00:45Well they need one more to pass that, but at least equaled it, that's a fantastic effort,
00:53on any pitch.
01:02Dravid on 48.
01:05He's called for two, now they might be off the pad, I doubt it, the way he ran that first
01:09one hard, and that might be his 50.
01:14Well played skipper, you put yourself up into the heat, into the cauldron, he wanted to
01:18do it, and it's his 40th Test 50.
01:25Beautiful shot, he is so good off his legs, he really is.
01:32Well a lot of people say that Rahul Dravid's got the best cover drive, but really he's
01:37a natural on the onside, he's always been, from his younger days, he's just effortless.
01:43Anytime he gets a delivery around his pad, he can just put it away with ease.
01:48A little sweep around the corner, we'll get at least one, two, three, and one on four.
01:57Lovely shot, really was from Dravid, and he goes, it's his ninth boundary, goes to 61.
02:13Beautifully done, he's got this ability to sweep fine.
02:16Oh, how's that got through, that's a bit naughty, Pakistan, should be a little bit better than
02:34that.
02:35Well that certainly shouldn't have been runs, it was a good shot, but he was in a position
02:40to cut it off.
02:41Beautifully played, he was looking for the gap, he had played it there, but then Mohamed
02:45Sami, just a bit casual, just a little complacent.
02:49No ball, one more for it, have you ever seen 230 runs made so easy?
03:01It's gone very fine, I've seen that man at Fine Lake being very square in most of the
03:18fusions.
03:19Not only wide, but very lazy effort there by Danish Canaria, that one nipped back a
03:26little bit.
03:27It's definitely reversing, shot inside the right hand, right inside of the bowlers, but
03:35a very lazy effort there by Danish Canaria on the Fine Lake.
03:39Oh, that's a good shot, so strong through that Ira Rahul Gavid.
03:53Pakistan doesn't look like getting wicket at all.
03:59This man Rahul Gavid is looking very dangerous now, he's approaching his hundred slowly,
04:05that one picked the gap very nicely.
04:09Beautiful timing.
04:10Jhudi Khadzad not interested, out of the rough, bounced, but Gavid himself also not at all
04:31impressed by the appeal.
04:37Well, that is a terrific shot, but let's take a look at Rahul Gavid, last ball, last
04:46over, that vociferous appeal, nowhere near it, didn't play it, didn't get an edge.
04:56But the point is, why was he trying to play a defensive shot to a ball coming in from
05:00outside the leg stump?
05:04Well, the third hundred has come in 105 balls, it's almost a runner ball, you can imagine
05:13the domination at the moment.
05:22Starts over the wide one and Rahul Gavid, well, that'll certainly release some pressure.
05:28I say pressure because he's in his nineties now, on 98.
05:37Short and wide, and we know what happens to those deliveries, whether they are from a
05:42slow bowler or a fast bowler.
05:44That one spun and I think it must have surprised Rahul Gavid also, he was once again shaping
06:02to push that one away through the offside.
06:05He's played it fine, chase for Canaria, he'll give it up, and Rahul Gavid has reached another
06:18milestone, another hundred, 21st test match hundred of his career, his fourth against
06:26Pakistan, his first as an opener for India, and his first as captain of India.
06:33It's going to take now a lot for India to change his opening partnership.
06:41Rahul Gavid and Gurinder Sehwag, 334 runs on the board.
06:49Beautifully placed shot.
06:51Three boundaries in this over again from the first four deliveries.
07:06This is how he got to three figures, Rahul Gavid.
07:10It's been crashed.
07:12Edge and once again Nzama Malak was late in reacting to that edge.
07:23It's a difficult position for Nzama, he normally doesn't position himself in the slips against
07:28the spinners, he's very good when it comes to handling pace in that region.
07:35When you hit the outside edge like this, and nothing happens apart from the ball going
07:40forward, it's very disheartening for the bowler, especially on these flat pitches.
07:47Fine deflection looking for two.
07:51What about four and seven, that's how quick this ground is, add that along with it, and
07:55that was just acquired over.
07:56Eight off it, 370 for no loss.
08:06Let's have another boundary.
08:10I feel that the bowlers are just bowling in tonight's highlights, do you get that feeling?
08:16You're more than right Dino.
08:19It's like, literally like that was a Dusra, literally going like highlights.
08:27Beautifully played once again there, Rahul Gavid.
08:31That's what, I don't think we did.
08:34There's so many options.
08:3746, and that's the 400, he's just gone past Brian Lara, and he's equaled with Bradman
08:42for the second most ever boundaries by a player in the Test Innings.
08:47I don't think Dino, you have to tell him where to hit, he knows his area very well.
08:51You make these big scores, Waka, you've never had that problem yourself, but when you make
08:56big scores, you need a bit of a break here and there.
08:59Especially on this sort of track, it doesn't really matter, you go off and then you come
09:03back two hours later, or an hour later, or whatever, you set again.
09:07You don't really need to get in and get the feel of the pitch, all you can do is just
09:12go in there and start playing again, start playing your strokes.
09:15Shouldn't be a problem there for Sehwag.
09:18And one more thing, really amazed me, 75 overs, 403.
09:23I think this is the first time, I'm not really sure, but I have a feeling that this is the
09:27first time a team bowling has just taken one ball, has only bowled 75, has scored 400 runs,
09:34been scored 400 runs against.
09:36Amazing run rate, isn't it?
09:38You're so right, and why wouldn't they be clapping?
09:40I know it's a flat pitch, but they just played brilliantly, both of them, Sehwag and Rahul
09:45Dravid.
09:46It's a nice comeback too, because they could easily have thrown just 7 overs and 45 runs
09:51in this little session of 24 minutes.
09:54Coming out, will they take the new ball straight away?
10:00Another 5 overs remaining.
10:04Must have been a frustrating wait for Dravid and Sehwag, and the pressure will tell now.
10:13The best ever partnership, Pankaj Roy and Vinu Mankat, 50 years ago.
10:20Great opportunity for these two to go past that, Sehwag and Dravid.
10:27Saying that, the lights have just come on now.
10:31Got to get something out of this game, if anything.
10:34And I know, he's a big student of the game, Rahul Dravid.
10:39He'd love to have his name up there in one of the world record partnerships.
10:44This man here, 6 boundaries behind for the record number of boundaries in an innings.
10:50Sehwag.
10:56Knows the call.
10:58He's checking with...
11:04He's...
11:06Sehwag is the 4th highest score ever in Test Cricket.
11:10Sehwag, of course, has got 309 versus Pakistan.
11:13Vivius Laxman's got 281.
11:16Six runs in one wicket, smiles all round.
11:21Well, we've had a trunk slammer today.
11:22We just basically want everybody to hop on the bus and go home, because nothing's happening.
11:27Except the batsmen lose this wicket.
11:29Basically, we're playing to see if someone can get the world record for highest opening partnership.
11:34And they didn't.
11:35And they didn't.
11:43Ninsi saying, well, let's hop on the bus and let's go, maybe.
11:46There it is, this session.
11:47Just...
11:5214 balls there, 7 runs for one wicket.
11:58Nevertheless, a fantastic knock from Dravid too.
12:01Let's not forget about his efforts in the partnership of 128.