In year 1994
Before he mangled proverbs, Navjot Sidhu butchered spin bowlers. Good ones too. Here he flayed eight sixes - just two short of Wally Hammond's Test record (though Wasim Akram moved the bar up to 12 two years later) - off a Sri Lankan attack that included Muttiah Muralitharan (41.5-3-162-5: even in the maelstrom he picked up a five-for). Sidhu's 124 and a record-breaking 142 from Sachin Tendulkar (it made him the first man to hit seven Test tons before his 21st birthday) set up India's innings victory over Sri Lanka in Lucknow. Anil Kumble, with 11 for 128, finished the job
In year 1998
Record-breaking stuff from the Indians in Dhaka, in the Independence Cup final. With Sourav Ganguly hammering 124 and Robin Singh 82, they made 316 for 7 to beat Pakistan with one ball to spare, the highest total at the time to win a one-dayer batting second.
Before he mangled proverbs, Navjot Sidhu butchered spin bowlers. Good ones too. Here he flayed eight sixes - just two short of Wally Hammond's Test record (though Wasim Akram moved the bar up to 12 two years later) - off a Sri Lankan attack that included Muttiah Muralitharan (41.5-3-162-5: even in the maelstrom he picked up a five-for). Sidhu's 124 and a record-breaking 142 from Sachin Tendulkar (it made him the first man to hit seven Test tons before his 21st birthday) set up India's innings victory over Sri Lanka in Lucknow. Anil Kumble, with 11 for 128, finished the job
In year 1998
Record-breaking stuff from the Indians in Dhaka, in the Independence Cup final. With Sourav Ganguly hammering 124 and Robin Singh 82, they made 316 for 7 to beat Pakistan with one ball to spare, the highest total at the time to win a one-dayer batting second.
