India's Sachin Tendulkar poses with his Man of the Match award after their win over Pakistan.
After leading India to the final of the World Cup with a shot worth 85, Sachin Tendulkar just can not wait to play one of the biggest matches of his illustrious career at his home in Mumbai.
"It would be a great opportunity to play the final in Mumbai. All we want is to stay calm and focused and do the work," man-of-the-match against Pakistan said at the ceremony presentation after the match.
Someone who was a member of the team which won all five games of the World Cup in Pakistan, the legendary striker was quick to admit that it would be "remembered that he always loved."
Someone who has always put the team before individual performances lavished praises Tendulkar young Suresh Raina whose unbeaten 36 provided the necessary dynamism death overs.
"Raina played a special move. When we started hitting, I felt it was for the score of 310-315. But, as the spinners came on and stopped the ball coming. I thought 265-270 would be good score to defend" said Tendulkar.
He, Virender Sehwag blitzkrieg at the beginning and the other gave him that little bit extra time to verify how inning.
"Viru us out of the driver, but then we had to assess the situation. It 'was a difficult wicket with the bat and we need to put up with the best score. Full celebrate their bowlers put on a great show."
Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni also spoke in the same order of ideas on how the window slowly increasingly difficult to bat on as the game progressed.
"If you remove the opening partnership, we find that the 260 was a good score on defense. It may be that we have 20-30 in the second act" was that the assessment of the commander.
The commander admitted that his reading of the ground was wrong, but the seamers did a good job.
"We have not played bad, but it is also our seams upset exceptionally well. That's why I did not need to use a melon sixth. We do not have a bowler who regularly make 140 more senior .
"We have players who can change the variations and plan accordingly. Ashish is a pace bowler and Zak (Zaheer) is really good with their variation. Even Munaf strength is bowling wicket-stop, because it became very smart after play in IPL. "
Dhoni has already led India to win World T20 in 2007, said his team is "ready for the final."
"It was important to peak at the right time. That's the beauty of this game. But it is important to do well on that day."
Dhoni's counterpart Shahid Afridi was a man down at the end of everything.
"I congratulate India for this victory and I wish them all the best for the final. But I must give credit to my boys for their performance. I am proud to lead this bunch of guys. "
He praised Wahab Riaz who grabbed five 46 "Wahab played really well."
But the boss was critical of his batsmen. "The key partnerships have been and we could not start. So we played a bit of the workload. Ultimately, they played better cricket than us," Afridi was straightforward in his assessment.
About the decision not to take up the final Powerplay, Afridi said: "We thought we were going to take the Powerplay Bhajji when had finished his spell."
“The captain of Pakistan to the final apology to the nation to fail.”
