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hammered that out of sight and out of the park. The White Kookaburra soared over the fence. Bhajji too is in tears. years in waiting and the helicopter shot has brought an end to the game. The players Dhoni and Yuvraj, who were popularly called 'The Finishers' against Pakistan and Sri Lanka a few years ago, took the game closer and a thrilling finish was on the cards. They needed off deliveries when the batting power play became mandatory. Could they do it? They were up against a lethal bowler in Malinga. Just three runs of the Malinga over meant the Indians needed off the next four overs. There were nerves all around, but the two batsmen in the middle looked to be in a different world altogether. Pressure was just a distant relative and they kept their cool to help India romp home with deliveries to spare. Unit - (Poem) Tejaswini Sawant is an Indian shooter from the Maharashtrian city of Kolhapur. Her father Ravinder Sawant was an officer in the Indian Navy. Tejaswini represented India in at the 9th South Asian Sports Federation Games. She, in the Commonwealth Games, won one gold medal in Women’s 10m Air Rifle Singles and Women’s 10m Air Rifle pairs. In , in the 50m Rifle positions, she won a bronze and in she became a world champion in 50m Rifle Prone game held in Germany. In the Commonwealth Games, she won one bronze and two silver medals in the Women’s 50m Rifle Prone Pairs, the Women’s 50m Rifle Prone Singles and the Women’s 50m Rifle positions, respectively. Tejaswini was the first Indian shooter to win a Gold medal at the World Championship in the 50m Rifle Prone Game. Unit - (Prose) Thomas Alva Edison stepped from a train in Orange, New Jersey and walked down the platform. The station master knew how forgetful the famous inventor was. Therefore, he would always ask him a customary question. He asked Edison if he had left anything behind. Edison confidently replied that he