There was so much happening in that video.
-Ball number 1, 12 runs to get; the wide and Mushy missing a runout
-Repeat Ball number 1, 11 runs to get; Shankar misses a slower ball; Mushy collects and sprints towards the stumps keeping Shankar in his crease.
The camera focuses on a spectator in the stands with both hands on his head.
-Ball number 2, 11 runs to get; Shankar hits it straight to Liton Das at a widish mid-off, he scampers to the non-striker's end as the throw comes in from Liton. He's ok.
-Ball number 3; DK on strike, takes a leg-stump guard, 10 runs to get. We get a glimpse of Shakib doing all kinds of body movements; he's nervous, tense. The camera then snuck in a young SL with an Indian flag pasted on her face, as Sarkar runs in. A yorker is delivered, and DK guides it to the sweeper. 1 run taken. Then the 12th man ran into the field with a bottle of water. A delay tactic? Possibly. The umpires didn't even stop him. Sarkar took a gulp and washed his face (Practicing safe hygiene in the middle of an over). Liton gives him a pat on his back after he finished. Now back to the action.
-Ball number 4; 9 runs to get; Shankar back on strike. Shakib gives a chat to Sarkar, while Camera catches Ravi Shastri on the edge of his seat in the players' pavilion. Sarkar dished up a yorker, all Shankar had to do was to open the face of his bat and guide the ball towards 3rd man. The white ball rolled along the ground like a golf ball that was putted on the green. There was no 3rd man. Four runs. Rumor has it that it was this shot that got him into the World Cup squad for the trip to England the following year. Sarkar and Liton with their hands on their respective heads. Five runs needed off 2 balls.
-Ball number 5; Sarkar bowls a slower delivery just outside off-stump and Shankar attempts a glory shot straight back. It's high in the air, about 5-8 meters in front of the boundary. Mehedy Hasan Miraz at long-off and Sabbir Rahman at long-on both appear to be under the ball. Sabbir gets the first touch on it and then collided with Miraz. The ball pops up. A few juggles later, and it lands in Miraz's left palm; he grasped it tightly. He would then attempt to break Usain Bolt's 100m record with a dash to his fellow teammates in the 30-yard circle (Yeah, the units...Imperial and metric all included here). Shakib is seen squatted, wiping his face with a white towel, letting out a 'sigh of relief' or something else...because India needs 5 runs off the last ball.
-Ball number 6; DK on strike. Sarkar pitches it outside off, it was intended to be a yorker but instead was just short of that length. DK pounced on it. The ball went aerial, through the extra-cover region...and still aerial. It can't be a six? The commentators already made their minds up that it was a four, before the ball even lose altitude, but it kept and going and going and over the ropes it went. Six runs. India have won the Nihadas Trophy. Sarkar is down on his knees. DK is mobbed by his teammates. Taskin Ahmed, Abu Hider Rony(who I think could have played in this match and bowl the last over given the chance), and Imrul Kayes, all with heads bowed down; heads in hands. So close for their team, but so far.
The camera shows a few spectators in the crowd doing the 'Nagin dance'.
Something about karma...
