well if ure a person who follows the news of the Indian cricket team(which is practically everybody from India and a lotz of NRI's)then september was an unbelivable month for you.I have to devoted this entire's month posting to the Indian cricket team as they simply deserved to be given that much space for what they have achieved.If u look back at an earlier post of mine u can see how desperate the month of march was for the Indian cricket team when the hopes of 1.1 billion people came doen like a avalanche..plummetting the nation into a deep gloom.All that changed with the awesome new spectacle of the TwENTY 20 WORLDCUP.To BE FRANK I HAD ALMOST GOTTEN USED TO THE regular failure of the Indian cricket team at the International arena ..so i didnt have much expectations from them..C'mon how can u have a realistic expectation of good performance from a team when they were considered to have a lesser chance than scotland of making the second round ..coz indiaz experience at the shortest version was much less than that of Scotland's ..at one point I was just hoping that they should just make it past scotland so that things wouldnt get worser than at the 50-50 WC level.After the first match got washed out came the next match against Pakistan which i was sure that India would win until that 'BUSTER' 'Mis-bah' nearly played a cameo at the end ..and manged to get Pakistan to a state where they needed just 1 to win from 2 balls and they absolutely fucked up things and manged to loose the match in the first ever international bowl-out with INDIA winning 3-0..
With that India was in the 2nd stage ..but with the 10 run loose against newzealand from a winning position seems to recall the old habits and India was all set to go out of the touranment with 2 tough draws coming up..Then came the turning point ..the match against England!!Things started off well with the awesome opening stand --but the player who stole all the attention was one Yuvraj singh ..who went on an absolute rampage and sent the england players(more apt to say spectators) on a leather hunt with him hitting 6 consecutive sixes of S.Broad (thus repaying the debt that he owed Mascerehnas).With that win India was all pumped up..but the next do r perish match was against a formidable RSA lineup playing at home..this time almost all of us were ready to go out with grace as beating RSA was considered unrealistic..but what the heck!,not only did the MI-BLUE win but also they managed to knock the host out of the tournament..that was a bloody beautiful match with kaarthick taking the most amazing catch of R.singh and R.singh wiping out the top order.
nEXT in line was kangaroos..and the Indians were prepared to make kangaroo curry this time around..Yuvraj once again played a cameo and scored 70 of 30,our own local boy sreesanth went on a rampage and with the basic south Indian knowlege of good spices was able to cook the most amazing kangaroo curry...yumm ;) .This match almost to the wire until the aussies lost a match which they could have easily won with Symonds and Hayden going strong at one point.But in the end it was 'bharth mahan ' who triumphed.
The final..well the FINAL..hmm..the Final...yessssssssss..the bloody friigin fINAL..Man was it some thing ,..was it a dream??I dont think so..but the players surely lived a dream with this match..as India marched into the finals ,there was a formidable enemy waiting for them there which was a team which was given almost a next to nothing chance in the beginning to win the cup..this was a team that was humiliated even more than INDIA at WI,2007..with their coach dying at the touranmet..this was the team of PAKISTAN..this was a ****** INDIA-PAKISTAN final..the most amazing sporting spectacle.The match started on a high note with the entire world tuning in to watch the amazing match filled with all the added masala that comes along with the match such as gorgeous chicks and the longest six to name a few.India had a decent start ,THANKS to Gautan Gambhir and finished at a decent 156..the Indian bowlers did a good job and with Pakistan struggling at 77-6 the cup was ours for the taking until 'Mis-bah ' turned up and massacred the Indian bowlers and showed how vulnerable the Indian attaack can get..hey!!but hats off to pathan and R.P for holding their nerves..come the final over it was the Indians who were under all the pressure with sreesanth and H.singh being plundered for runs..then this guy who no-one has really heard bfre the WC comes to bowl the last over with a mere 12 runs needed and ' mis-bah' on strike and what good omens awaited joginder there with his first bowl going for a wide and the next one a six.U should have seen me at this time, i was swearing at H.singh and Joginder with words that even i didnt know i knew.My freinds say that i even threatened to go to chandigargh and blow up H.Singh and everythin associated with the sardar.Then came the magical momemt me and my friends were desperate over how bad the situation was and was ready to accept the looser's tag ..then Joginder bowled his second legitimate delivery..there ..there was Mis-bah doing the unorthodox sweep..a huge despair fell upon all of us as the ball went high in the air..i was sreaming **** it is a ******* bloody *&^%$* six..damn..Quoting RAVI SHASTRI...""......................In the air...sreesanthhhh....takes the catchhhhhhhh..INDIA WIN...........................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES PEOPLE THE BALL WAS OFFICLAY IN SREESANTH'S HANDS..and INDIA had become the fisrt t-20 champion..my room mates say i screamed non-stop for 5 minutes, as much as my larynx would allow me..and the fell down in a sporting trance..it was unbelivable 'WE' HAD triumphed in a most unbelivable match..and mis-bah became the valinat sailor who braved the U-boats only to sink as the harbour came into viw(hats off to 'MIS-BAH' 5 runs ul-HAQ)..
ladies and gentlemen that was the most amazing cricketing sporting spectacle of the century ..and a big thank you for tuning in..!
