Ever heard of a saying "Cricket is religion in India". I have, and will continue to do so as long as we have IPL (huuhh.). Not sure whats the reason for this reaction but yeah watching your favourites from close to 100 m distance and watching them via satellite are altogether two different experiences.
30th April 2008, Delhi Daredevils Vs Royal Challengers(Bangalooorruuu). An exciting encounter between the Sultan of Multan and apna The Wall.
Starting off from office with enthusiasm of watching a live cricket match in the stadium for the first time. Me, Vishnu and Vineet started our journey. Reaching the stadium 30 mins before the scheduled start we were very eager to get into the stands.
After all hustle and bustle, lathis and dandas we finally reached Tier 2 stand where we luckily got 3 seats just perpendicular to the pitch. 7:45 in the evening and the ground looked awesome from there. Lush green fields with a white pitch. My my that was too good to watch, a wave of adrenaline rushed through my veins.
I wished i could bat for one over from the pavilion end of the bowling of McGrath. Hitting him for a couple of sixes over long on and the cheer girls dancing on each shot and finally at the end of the over a long Hug from my dreams sweet heart Katerina Kaif. Wow... amazing , It usually happens with e, My brain starts to work for my fantasies only once I see things from a 100 m distance (can range from 1 m to 200 m:)).
Finally I got out of my dreams and saw the crowd cheering for Sehwag and Dhawan(The next sensation in Indian Team). The match begin and suddenly we heard of a loud sound (bomb blast was my first call, but then we found that we a bunch of vella people were the lucky ones to see Sehwag hit those two sixes as there was some technical problem coz of which the match was not telecasted on TV for 6 overs. Cheering, clapping, dancing, singing, hooting whistling were the only few things that people were busy with. I called up my friends for the scores. thanks to the Groud staff that were busy in watching those chicks and not updating the score board.
Delhi finishing on a promising score and ensuring that they could win despite of the fact that they had some wonderfool bowlers. The Royal challengers started there journey with Jaffer opening. And we saw some great bowling by our very own Mc Grath whose spell of 4 overs made us spell bound. A very exciting thing happened during Royals chase, I saw Dravid hit a long six. Ahaaaaa..... it took him almost a decade to hit that big. Finally he decided to go for it. A fine knock by the captain.
I never ever doubted Bouchers capabilities. He is one such player who can win matches single handedly, be it anything, a 72 run chase of 2 overs or a six of last ball , he will do that for u. But this was not his day... a poor decision to send him down the order costed Royals the match. Had he been 3 overs before on the ground, the Royals would have beaten the Delhities by 3 balls to spare ( Ho jaye 100-100 ki?)
. But thanks to some great think tanks in the Bengaloorus team that it all ended in what we call a marvelous victory for Delhi Daredevils.
Starting off from office with enthusiasm of watching a live cricket match in the stadium for the first time. Me, Vishnu and Vineet started our journey. Reaching the stadium 30 mins before the scheduled start we were very eager to get into the stands.
After all hustle and bustle, lathis and dandas we finally reached Tier 2 stand where we luckily got 3 seats just perpendicular to the pitch. 7:45 in the evening and the ground looked awesome from there. Lush green fields with a white pitch. My my that was too good to watch, a wave of adrenaline rushed through my veins.
I wished i could bat for one over from the pavilion end of the bowling of McGrath. Hitting him for a couple of sixes over long on and the cheer girls dancing on each shot and finally at the end of the over a long Hug from my dreams sweet heart Katerina Kaif. Wow... amazing , It usually happens with e, My brain starts to work for my fantasies only once I see things from a 100 m distance (can range from 1 m to 200 m:)).
Finally I got out of my dreams and saw the crowd cheering for Sehwag and Dhawan(The next sensation in Indian Team). The match begin and suddenly we heard of a loud sound (bomb blast was my first call, but then we found that we a bunch of vella people were the lucky ones to see Sehwag hit those two sixes as there was some technical problem coz of which the match was not telecasted on TV for 6 overs. Cheering, clapping, dancing, singing, hooting whistling were the only few things that people were busy with. I called up my friends for the scores. thanks to the Groud staff that were busy in watching those chicks and not updating the score board.
Delhi finishing on a promising score and ensuring that they could win despite of the fact that they had some wonderfool bowlers. The Royal challengers started there journey with Jaffer opening. And we saw some great bowling by our very own Mc Grath whose spell of 4 overs made us spell bound. A very exciting thing happened during Royals chase, I saw Dravid hit a long six. Ahaaaaa..... it took him almost a decade to hit that big. Finally he decided to go for it. A fine knock by the captain.
I never ever doubted Bouchers capabilities. He is one such player who can win matches single handedly, be it anything, a 72 run chase of 2 overs or a six of last ball , he will do that for u. But this was not his day... a poor decision to send him down the order costed Royals the match. Had he been 3 overs before on the ground, the Royals would have beaten the Delhities by 3 balls to spare ( Ho jaye 100-100 ki?)
. But thanks to some great think tanks in the Bengaloorus team that it all ended in what we call a marvelous victory for Delhi Daredevils.
5 comments:
Mohit, you didn't tell me abt ur wish at that time. Hope i could help you :) :)
Dil ki baat dil main hi reh gayi!!!!!
Hey, I was also thr in that match even many of my frnds were thr...
Hmmm... I read ur blog too... Seriously it was a great match ... It was the first time I saw a live match in the stadium... gr8 experience
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