8 partnerships Indian cricket fans can never forget
Cricket has always been a game of partnerships. The best recipe for success in the game is for the key players of the team to stick in the middle and play for a long time. Over the years, Indian cricket has seen some great partnerships. Some of these have been so significant that they shaped the Indian cricket for years to come. More than that, there have been some that meant a great deal for the fans and the cricketing world as a whole and not just because of the number of runs that they involved, but also because of the time they came at and the role that they played in Indian cricket.
Here are 5 partnerships that Indian cricket fans can never forget:
Yuvraj Singh – Mohammad Kaif, 2002
If you watched the 2002 Natwest Trophy final between India and England, then there is no way you have forgotten the 121-run partnership between Mohammad Kaif and Yuvraj Singh. 90 percent of the television and radio sets were switched off in the country, and the rest 10% went down with the wicket of Sachin. Everybody thought that India had lost the match and considered these two young guns incapable of turning the game around.
But some of the Indian fans kept watching the game with the hope of seeing a miracle on their television sets. Along with these fans, these two players refused to admit defeat. It was a test of faith for the fans and Yuvi and Kaif did not disappoint them.
This partnership was not just about the runs it involved. This partnership gave birth to the competitive team India that we see today winning overseas regularly. It was not just a partnership being built, it was a memory being built to be cherished by the entire cricketing fraternity and the Indian fans forever.
In that match, the Indian fans saw two young players refusing to admit defeat even after the entire world thought that they had been defeated. This partnership showed the world that the Indian cricket was in great hands for the years to come.