To be inside the M Chinnaswamy Stadium during their madcap three-hour stand was to be taken on a joyride.
Indian millennials had Mohammad Azharuddin and Sachin Tendulkar from Cape Town in 1996. Now, centennials have their own partnership. It will find a place in reels and drive kids to the nearest net, with a bat in hand, oodles of hope and plenty of imagination in their eyes. If Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli fantasised on Friday, Sarfaraz and Pant almost manifested it into reality.
Both of them, indulging in an art of batsmanship from an ultra modern age (entertaining is the only currency in town), took the weekend hoi-polloi through a journey from cautious optimism to gay abandon.
One of the most significant pit stops during their journey will possibly see NFTs making a comeback. It was that special.
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