Well, it didn't go quite to plan. Only 18 in the World Cup Final, and out to a in-two-minds push away from the body, caught behind off Lasith Malinga. India won anyway, since they have an astonishingly brilliant batting line-up. But, what possessed the little Master to change his bat in the semi-final, and continue into the final? Could it have been some gently applied pressure of adidas, one of his big sponsors?
"Please Lord Sachin, it's the world cup semi-final. Could you go out and score a a lot of runs with a nice new shiny adidas bat. Zillions and gazillions are watching, and they aren't going to get turned on by those mucky old bats you usually trot out with, huh?"
I do hope it wasn't this. He is cataclysmically more important to cricket than a being a celebrity clothes horse to sell product, and be denied the best chance to craft his 100th century on such a grand stage in his home city by such a cheap compromise.
I hope it's revealed in any future ST biography. I'm intrigued.
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