Historic match, a win like no other, a fightback with few parallels, a privilege to watch like none else, a billion hearts pumping like never before, truly stupendous. The Aussie fortress at Gabba breached.
This test series can have a Netflix series with four episodes:
- The nightmare- Test 1
- The resurgence- Test2
- The great escape - Test3
- The Jackpot - Test4 !!!
Read this for the last line.
"Natarajan is the son of a loom worker who had no money for luxuries like cricket gear and shoes. For many years, Natarajan had to think a hundred times before investing in new shoes. His mother cried when she saw him representing India on TV. His wife gave birth to their son when Natarajan was playing IPL in UAE. He hasn’t even seen him yet because he went straight to Australia in a bio bubble.
Shardul Thakur battled obesity to play for Mumbai and thereafter IPL & onwards to National Team.
No less than Sachin Tendulkar advised him to lose weight for a great cricketing career ahead of him.
Mohd Siraj rose to become India’s new-ball bowler despite being born to a poor rickshaw driver.
His father died and he couldn’t perform his last rites as he was in Australia on national duty.
Washington Sundar’s father - M.Sundar, was a talented cricketer who was sponsored by his rich neighbour throughout his local cricketing life. His name was P.D. Washington. The man passed away just before Sundar’s second son was born. M.Sundar named his son Washington as a tribute to his benefactor.
Navdeep Saini’s father was a government driver and could not afford expensive cricket coaching for his son.
So Saini played exhibition matches on a tennis ball at Rs.300 a match to fund his dreams.
All these guys came together as Debutants and have turned this match over its head.
All their lives they were waiting for this moment in their cricketing career. All their failures, all their struggles, all their doubts and all their insecurities - all that was settled once and for all in this Test match.
When presented with an opportunity, they fired themselves up and attacked Australia with all guns blazing.
In this series, more than any other Test series people have seen in their life, the Indian Cricket team has proven their naysayers wrong. They have sustained tremendous pressure and taken hard knocks all over their bodies against one of the best Australian attack ever. Most of the Indian Team Members had some form of body injuries
Today's Indian Team made us realise that while 3-hour IPL matches can create instant celebrities but it is the Test Cricket, which stretches over five days, that creates real heroes.
Celebrities sign autographs, but Heroes continue to inspire the nation, decades after they retire. "