Like any other year, this one too had its highs and lows, moments that captured the imagination for contrasting reasons. Here's a lowdown on what happened in the world of cricket in 2012.
Even for a country obsessed with records, rarely has such
anticipation preceded a landmark. The possibility of his hundredth
international ton sat on Tendulkar’s shoulders like Betaal on Vikram,
shackling the great man under its burden for an inordinately long
period. Several ‘suitable’ opportunities were missed, chances strewn and
the knock finally arrived at Mirpur against Bangladesh, on March 16,
2012 in the Asia Cup.
Tendulkar’s reaction was strange: “It's
been a tough phase for me ... I was not thinking about the milestone,
the media started all this, wherever I went, the restaurant, room
service, everyone was talking about the 100th hundred. Nobody talked
about my 99 hundreds. It became mentally tough for me because nobody
talked about my 99 hundreds." Oh yes, and India lost that match to
Bangladesh.
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