What should be strategy toward chasing lower scores?

Before the second inning starts the team
who have to chase the given score makes
strategy how to get through the required
target.Some strategy succeeds but some don't.
If the score is lesser than expected then
Teams might not make so called strategy.
Team thinks that it's easily achievable
target.If chasing score is more then
play fast and put more runs as game
goes on,on the scoreboard.

In fifth match of ODI series 2006,between South
Africa and Australia;Australia batted first and
scored 434 runs in full 50 overs.From Australia
Ricky Ponting played well and hit 164 runs.
In the answer of 434,South Africa hit 438 runs
with Hershell Gibbs scoring 175 runs.No need to
tell who won(If you really don't know let me
tell you SA won by one wicket).A record of
highest runs in 50 over was made on that day
by Australia but broken by South Africa after
4 and half hour.South Africa must have made
the strategy which I had mentioned earlier.
But..if Australia would have scored around
300 or 350 runs it is not necessary that
once again South Africa would have surely
won.

While chasing 183 runs of India during World
Cup 1983 final West Indies might have made the
strategy that end up the match within 30-40
overs.Before chasing small 183 runs West
Indies must have thought of sure win and lifting
consecutive third World Cup because they had
World class batsman like Clive Lloyd and Vivian
Richards.But...they had committed mistake by
taking 183 runs not seriously and they paid
for it and they lost the Prudential Cup to
the Team India which was said beginner at that
time.

So while chasing lesser score on strategy
could be Team might act in real time means
they should take action according to current
scenario of the game and the best strategy
would be 'Don't take any opponent lightly.
Please suggest your strategy for chasing
lower scores if you would have Captain of
chasing Team.

Sehwag on the verge of breaking records

Vireder Sehwag the batsman who is nightmare for some
world's best bowlers have given pain to some of his cricket
fan by loosing his wicket at point when everyone was eagerly
waiting for the record to be broken and recorded in record book.

First incident will take us to the page in cricket record
book when India played against Pakistan Test series in 2006.
Pakistan batted first and scored 679 for 7 declared.India in
their first inning with Sehwag reached his 247 off 240 balls,
in the process hitting the second-fastest double century in
history off just 182 balls and hitting 45 fours and one six.
On the second day play lasted for all of 14 deliveries,that
produced 7 runs that helped take Virender Sehwag to 254
(247 deliveries, 47 fours, one six) and his wicket when the
opener, in a hurry to rewrite the record books before play
was stopped again tried to upper cut Naved Rana to third
man and, on the third time of asking, ended up feathering
it to the keeper.First wicket partnership bring 410 run
and they fell short by just four runs to break the
first wicket record partnership for India between Pankaj
Roy and Vinoo Mankad who had sored 413 runs vs New
Zealand in Chennai in 1956.Here note that Sehwag was
the man who got out and broke the partnership.

In the second event of chain of uncertainty it was Test
Series against Sri Lanka in December 2009.Everyone at the
stadium or watching at home was waiting to see him hit that
magical triple ton.Sehwah again bring frustration for his
fans who expected the that uncertain record from that
uncertain man.He started the day with caution, same as he
did yesterday's play,It looked as if he wanted to settle
down before starting to play the big shots.He started
sensibly.Murali finally flighted a delivery and pitched
it a bit up. That did the trick for Sri Lanka.Sehwag
stroked that one back to Murali and sent him to rest in
pavilion and see his colleagues batting after his own end
up in big frustration.He missed the world record by just
7 runs.He added only 9 runs to his overnight score of 284
and summing it to 293 runs.Sir Don Bradman and Brian Lara
shares the record of most triple century in Test cricket
with Sehwag.Three triple century in sehwag's record ,
it would have been a big mile stone in his Test carrier.
but uncertainty remains always.He is 4th batsman to be
dismissed in 290’s.Sir Vivian Richards(West indies),
Ramnaresh Sarwan(West Indies) and Martin Crowe
(New Zealand) were the 3 other players to get out
in 290’s.

In the third and last incident which I observed it was
India vs Sri Lanka One Day Series 2009.Sri Lanka won the
toss in the 1st One Day in Rajkot and decided to field
first.Indian inning was fully dominated by Sehwag who hit
carrier's best 146 off 102 balls had chance to score
double century in that match.Sehwag was dismissed in the
second over of India' power play,caught off the back of
the bat at point as he tried to steer the ball to fine
leg,When a batsman reaches near 194 everyone
become eager about the record of 194 to be broken.
Though he was not so near to 194 but it would have taken
6-7 overs for sehwag to reach 200,witnessing his form it
did not seem impossible but cricket is game of uncertainty.
In that match India hit his best total of 414-7 in their
ODI cricket history, at some point in India's inning score
was projected to be breaking Sri Lanka's world record of
443 in ODI history.But everything did not go as we predicts
or as statistics says.

Sehwag sometimes says many of my fans are fan of my pace
batting.They will support me till I am om pitch, when I
will be out of form they will start criticizing me.So fact
of matter is I am not saying that there is defect in
Sehwag's batting but their is uncertainty associated with
his batting which we have observed in the above cases.
He bring frustration for the fans who eagerly waits for
record to be broken so that they can start fire cracking and
have some entertainment.These records are not as important
as his contribution in Indian cricket.But sometimes we
might get consumed by thoughts like Sehwag is another
side of uncertainty.