Cricket: We Really Didn't Know Much About Yuvraj And Kaif": Ex-England Cricketer On 2002 NatWest Final

 One of the most amazing cricketing countries on the planet, India has gone through many high points and low points in the game. The NatWest series last of 2002 remaining parts to be perhaps the greatest triumph in Indian cricket history and previous England cricketer Nick Knight drilled down into the match and reviewed how an "uncommon association" won the last for the guests at the Lord's. Picking to bat in the wake of winning the throw, England posted 325 for five with skipper Nasser Hussain and Marcus Trescothick enlisting up-to-date hundreds of years. "The game in those days was not played the same way it is done at this point. So 325...I can let you know that when we were back in the changing area and having probably the best food sources we were really content with ourselves. I realized we were playing against a decent side with incredibly great players however back then in the event that you got 325, you are areas of strength for the, top choices", said Knight, talking on Cricket.com.

Pursuing an objective of 326 runs, India had a splendid beginning with openers Virender Sehwag and Sourav Ganguly delivering a 106-run association.

"Then, at that point, Ganguly and Sehwag emerged and crushed the initial not many overs. I got to figuring then, presumably after 10 overs that this may be a seriously close game here on the grounds that Dravid, Tendulkar was on the way. What's more, we truly had barely any insight into Yuvraj and Kaif", he said.

"We realized they were great and capable players yet I didn't actually, assuming I'm truly being straightforward here, that at 140 for 5 when Sachin got out did I imagine that these two people whom we had close to zero insight into can get the collaborate to 326. It's not being egotistical or being dumb, it's simply the manner in which you think by then".

After the excusal of Tendulkar in the 24th over, India were reeling at 146 for five. Then, at that point, Yuvraj and Kaif sewed together a game dominating organization to assist India with arranging a rebound.

Yuvraj enrolled 69 runs off 63 balls, loaded with nine fours and a most extreme. In the mean time, Kaif crushed an unbeaten knock of 87 runs off 75 conveyances, including six fours and two sixes.

"At the point when the organization started to unfurl you began imagining that these are great players. Yuvraj was simply crushing it leg side and over lengthy on. In any case, what Kaif did impacted me somewhat, a profound point on the grounds that a defender there think he just got to stop the limit yet what he was so great at was hitting the half-length balls and makes you feel that you got to come in and shut down those twos and threes. They ran us ragging", said the previous England cricketer.

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"That association was loaded up with ones, twos and threes. It was probably the best association that I can recollect playing the game".

India wound up coming to 326 for eight in 49.3 overs, winning by two wickets. The match additionally went down into cricketing old stories because of Sourav Ganguly's festival at the Lord's overhang, when he took his shirt off and spun it in the air.