5 Indian batting legends who won the match with their magical bowling spells

#3 Virender Sehwag - 3/25 versus South Africa - ICC Knockout 2002, Colombo

India were playing South Africa in the 2002 ICC Knockout Trophy Semi-Finals in Colombo. They were the team to beat in the tournament.

Sourav Ganguly won the toss and elected to bat against a strong South African side. India got off to a good start with Ganguly and Sehwag scoring 40 in 5 overs. India lost some wickets in the middle overs but some late-order fireworks by Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif helped India reach a competitive 261.

South Africa got off to a poor start losing Graeme Smith cheaply, but soon Gibbs and Kallis resurrected the situation with a mammoth 176 run stand. India looked clueless and the writing was on the wall.

India needed some luck to stage a comeback into the game and Herschelle Gibbs's timely injury due to excessive humidity made him retire hurt at 116.

After Gibbs departed, India dismissed both Dippenaar and Rhodes and Ganguly took a gamble by introducing Sehwag in the attack. Sehwag started to bowl an impressive spell by stitching lots of dot balls. At this point, South Africa still needed 34 from 4 overs.

After a few more good overs, the equation came down to 21 from 6 balls. Along with picking up the wicket of Boucher, Sehwag had only conceded 14 in 4 overs. He was asked to bowl the all-important last over.

The first ball was smacked for a mammoth six by Kallis. However, he was caught behind for 97 off the very next delivery. Lance Klusener, who had struggled to put bat to ball, skied the ball in the air only to be caught by Mohammad Kaif at long-off. Sehwag ended the match with figures of 5-0-25-3.

India won a cliffhanger by 10 runs and Sehwag was deservedly given the MoM for his all-round efforts.