End of Gabbatoir -: Victory for life and Cricket
19.01.2021 , a normal day for people but cricket lovers like me, who woke up at sharp 5 A.m. in morning to watch India saving this match to level the Border-Gavaskar Series, but got under the bed soon after 8.2 overs as Rohit Sharma (3rd most experienced player in the team) edged to world no. 1 test bowler Pat Cummins. It was a moment to just pray for India to not succumb to the pressure of Day 5 of this decider, to the pressure of trinity of Pat Cummins, Josh Hazelwood and Mitchell Starc with mighty Lyon. However, to get up again at 7 and sneaking through my phone to watch Shubman Gill marching fearlessly into his 60's with Pujara in his own natural mood to defend made again all plans for the day on side and just to watch what wasn't expected although dreamt of. This Indian team earlier in the previous match had shown the character but with Ashwin, Shami, Umesh, Bumrah out and Sundar, Natrajan, Shardul and Navdeep in was pretty much an underdog team against the mighty Aust