Melbourne: The waves of sound just kept coming. One after another. One bigger than the one before. It was a wall of sound. That was just when India batted.


India's players celebrate victory over South Africa in the Pool B 2015 Cricket World Cup match between South Africa and India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Pic/AFP 

When South Africa had a go at the impossible target of 308 — no team has ever chased 300+ total at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in an ODI before — the walls of sound crescendoed into tsunamis of sound, slamming from every direction, leaving the South Africans shell shocked and carrying India to an impressive win by 130 runs.