Sachin and Azhar at Cape Town
Sachin and Azhar at Cape Town Sachin and Azhar at Cape Town is the story of an incredible partnership between Tendulkar and Azharuddin in the Newlands Test of 1997. What followed was an exhilarating…
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Sachin and Azhar at Cape Town
Sachin and Azhar at Cape Town is the story of an incredible partnership between Tendulkar and Azharuddin in the Newlands Test of 1997. What followed was an exhilarating counter-attack from both ends, seldom seen in Test cricket. Replying to 529, India slumped to 58/5 against Donald, Pollock, McMillan and Klusener.
Arunabha Sengupta and Abhishek Mukherjee relive the partnership, recounting and analysing every stroke, but as they do, they also bring to life the cricket, history and society of the two countries. With Nelson Mandela watching on - he met the players during lunch that day - the pair added a magical 222 in 40 overs, treating the lethal bowling attack with disdain. Covering a multitude of topics as diverse as apartheid, Mandela and Gandhi, Indians in South Africa; cricket isolation and non-white cricket in South Africa, rebel tours; the television revolution and