The semi-final encounter between India anཧd Australia in the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007, held in Durban, South Africa, turned out to be a high-octane clash.
Initially, it was Yuvraj Singh and Robin Uthappa, along withꦆ a few finishing b♕lows from Indian captain MS Dhoni, which helped India post a stiff target of almost 190 in front of the Aussies.
The contest is also remembered for S Sreesanth’s fiery spell where he ended up conceding only 12 runs and picked a couple of vital wickets.
After being handed the new ball, Sree sent back the dangerous looking Adam Gilchrist upfront. The third-wicket partnershi❀p between Matthew Hayden and Andrew Symonds was threatening to take 🎶the game away from the Indians.
In his second spel💦l, Sree came back to pick the wicket of Hayden who scored a quiꦉckfire 62. The Kerala speedster cleaned up both the Australian openers with absolute peaches, as the formidable duo lost their stumps.
Sree, in his trademark manner, gave an animated send-off to the openers, much to the joy for the spectators. Now, the two-time World-Cup winner revealed about how a pep-talk from Dhoni helped him being e☂xtra-motivated.
“Dhoni bhai motivated me. He said you keep showing your aggression here and there; now do it against Australia. I think it worked like a key mechanism for me because I got fired up at the right time. The first ball, Hayden hit me for a boundary because I tried a yorker. That was the plan because I had seen Shoaib Akhtar get him out to the same ball,” Sree said on Youtube channel ‘Cow Corner Chronicles with Chandresh’.
India ended up winning the match by a comfortable margin of 15 ru꧅ns, as the Blue Brigade entered into the final of the tournam🌼ent which they eventually won against arch-rivals Pakistan.
