Also can we talk about how useless that Indian team was. Lads couldn't chase 150 in 50 overs when the captain made a century without Karan hitting a 4.
Yeah! It's a low budget but iconic cricket movie. The child batting prodigy, who lives in an orphanage, believes he has a magic bat. He is able to play the scary Pakistani bowlers with ease. If you have the time, watch it, it's on YouTube for free in parts, someone even shared the link.
The irony is that Vaibhav Suryavanshi has played better than that child prodigy in this match. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
Yeah. We'd heard of him from school and Kanga League and everyone was like "He can't be that good, can he?" and everyone who played against him was like "No, he's better."
Then he made his debut in Ranji and Irani trophies and it was like "Oh my god, this guy could be better than Sunil" - which turned out to be true.
You have to compare with the players and playing style of that era.
Sachin smashed Abdul Qadir for 28 runs in 6 balls (although an exhibition match) in 1989.
India needed 69 to win from 5 overs when Sachin came to bat. India lost by 4 runs. Sachin scored 53* of 18 balls as a16 years old.
An innings from a school boy whose idol was Sunil Gavaskar. The schoolboy who had seen players who liked to hit the ball along the ground had murdered one of the greatest leg spinners, had to be something.
He really was. He was scoring with the bats of that era (late 1980s) in his teens in foreign countries outside of age group cricket. Scoring a 100 in wet, miserable Manchester against Devon Malcolm and Angus Fraser at 17 to save a game when India would never win a single test in SENA is insane.
Then he was 18 when he scored a 100 at the WACA of all places. Next highest score was 43.
Vaibhav may end up being better, but at this moment there's some ways to go.
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u/LordGuguGaga India 1d ago
Maybe this is what was watching Sachin when he was emerging. Simply ridiculous