It was an unforgettable night of cricket at the Kingsmead in Durban. India versus Pakistan has often provided edge of the seat action but the Group D Twenty20 encounter was simply beyond belief.
The match ended in a a tie and was decided by a unique Twenty20 invention - the bowl out.Pakistan needed one run from the last two balls of the match to win and should have won but they didn't.
S Sreesanth kept his nerve as Misbah-ul Haq lost his to be run out and the scores were tied..
And then it was the time for cricket's answer to football's heart-stopping penalty shoot-out..For India, Virender Sehwag got No.1 but Yasir Arafat missed his by a long distance.Harbhajan Singh got No.2 for India but Pakistan failed again as Umar Gul missed.Robin Uthappa made it a hat-trick for India and Pakistan lost after Shahid Afridi completed a hat-trick of misses for Pakistan.
And India celebrated for a second time.
"It's a thing that is very different. Winning a cricket match 3-0," a smiling Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said.