Sachin and Azhar at Cape Town is the story of an incredible
partnership between Tendulkar and Azharuddin in the Newlands Test
of 1997. Replying to 529, India slumped to 58/5 against Donald,
Pollock, McMillan and Klusener. What followed was an exhilarating
counter-attack from both ends, seldom seen in Test cricket. With
Nelson Mandela watching on - he met the players during lunch that
day - the pair added a magical 222 in 40 overs, treating the lethal
bowling attack with disdain. Arunabha Sengupta and Abhishek
Mukherjee relive the partnership, recounting and analysing every
stroke, but as they do, they also bring to life the cricket,
history and society of the two countries. Covering a multitude of
topics as diverse as apartheid, Mandela and Gandhi, Indians in
South Africa; cricket isolation and non-white cricket in South
Africa, rebel tours; the television revolution and
commercialisation of cricket; with other historical details and
numerical analysis of the game supporting the text, this is a
fascinating snapshot of cricket at that time through the prism of
that impressive sixth-wicket stand.
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