After playing a suffocated match against England Uthappa met an interview with the commentaries. At the time of batting he played some pull shorts which needs more confidence. The commentaries asked him about these shorts if he practiced before. He replied in affirmative and told that I practices if for the next Twenty20 World Cup 2007 which is going to take place in South Africa from 11 September.
An article has published in the HindustanTimes site.
"I have been practising different shots for the Twenty-20 World Cup, and they came out perfectly," said Uthappa after India's two-wicket win with two balls to spare at the Oval here today.
India needed 83 off the last 10 overs when Uthappa, a regular opener joined Mahendra Singh Dhoni at the crease.
Uthappa went on to put on 60 runs from just 46 balls with Dhoni and, despite three wickets falling in the last two overs, kept his cool to hit two successive boundaries in the final over to guide India home.
Really that short was very good and most require for winning the match. As a young player he played well. My thought is that India will able to make strong batting line up with these qualities batsman.