5 times Team India surrendered after Sachin Tendulkar's wicket

No words can define how important Sachin Tendulkar was for the team when he played the game. For the two decades and a half that the master played the game, he was always the very best and without a doubt, the most important player for the team. Sachin Tendulkar has always been the synonym for perfection, elegance, and inspiration.

There have been a lot of instances when not only India but the entire world saw how much Team India depended on a little man of 5 feet 5 inches… how a little man carried the weight of a billion people’s expectations on his shoulders and kept meeting them again and again. For the entire 90s and a major part of the next decade, the team depended too much on the master blaster. As a result, there were many instances when the wicket of Sachin Tendulkar meant certain victory for the opponent.

Here are a few of the many of such incidents:

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#5  India vs South Africa, World Cup 2011

In the entire World Cup 2011, the only game that India lost was the one against South Africa at Nagpur. What people might have forgotten is that India got a fantastic start in that game. In fact, for the better part of the game, the team had a spectacular run rate.

With Sehwag scoring 73 and Sachin scoring his 99th international hundred - 111 - India got the start that they were looking for. After the first wicket, Sachin and Gambhir had a 125 run stand. At this stage, everybody hoped to see a score of 350 by the end, but all that they got to see was a collapse.

When Sachin got out, India’s score was 267 in 39.4 overs, and the next eight wickets fell down for a miserable 29 runs and India was reduced to 296 runs.

South Africa did not have any huge innings like Sachin’s but almost everyone in the first nine got a two-digit score and three of them got 50… and that’s how they managed to win the game.

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