Cricket Again!!!

Cricket is something which always fascinates me. I ever feel that Cricket is such an entertainer which would make me forget about everything. I have so many incidents to share to let the world know how much I like this sport.

I did not even cry when my brother left to the US of A when he packed his things off to grab his dream of settling over there. But I did cry when India lost a test match against Pakistan in Chennai long time back. It was such a wonderful match where in my god almost took the team to the winning position. When he fell off just short of the target, the whole team was collapsed in a short span of time which I was not able to accept. I wept like a crazy boy and everyone took so much time to console me.

I remember when I was a child, my dad, my brother and me watch cricket like crazy. Mommy is a poor soul always as she has to sacrifice all her serials and entertainments for us. There was a cricket match, we played against WestIndies in WestIndies. WestIndies has a wierd time lag as every match starts at 8 in the night IST and it goes off till 3 or 4 am the next day morning. We slept off early that night thinking that India would quite easily win the match. Suddenly I woke up in the middle of the night to make sure that we guys have done the job completely, It was so dark and I carefully took steps to go out of my room to the hall where we have the television. I was able to hear that some commentator was saying that India cannot lose the match from here. I was wondering who is watching TV now as I thought everyone was deep in sleep. Adding to it, I worried how come India had come to such a 50-50 position when it was almost our game when I hit the bed. I peeked into the hall slowly and found my dad watching the match and both of us blushed :D. He said " Vaa da matcha paaru. Epdi poyitu iruku theriyuma". He said that he also wanted to make sure that we guys complete the match on a winning note. I murmered "crazy this house is. crazy on cricket". I believe that my bro was in his college then, he must have been there otherwise. And India struggled hard to win the match. Myself and dad were hugging each other celebrating as if we had won a million dollar in lottery.

Whenever a close match is on the cards, My dad calls me up no matter where I am and what time is it. We would be sharing our pressure, our tension via the phone as if we are the owner of the team. The only thing in the world that my bro and me do not fight for having the remote control is Cricket.

Just a week back, the IPL got over. IPL had met the expectations of entertaining all the cricket fans and I am no exception. IPL had actually taught me the habit of waking up early. Hmm, there are things that you actually gain watching cricket ;).

The last T20 world cup is such a memorable one. It all happened in bangalore when I was working and we were 6 of us including me staying in a wonderful apartment(trilochan). I somehow become so much superstitious when it comes to cricket. I hardly move away from my place where I sit. I fear that India would lose the match if I move away. And here we have encountered so much coincidences which came into play. My friends were tripping me off for being superstitious and they convinced me to change my position once and they bet me that India would not lose. I obeyed them and strangely India lost couple of wickets which made my friends gave up their bet and asked me to go back to my position. T20 world cup is so much special to us as we believe that we pushed India to win the world cup by having beers everytime India had a match :D. Isn't it crazy?

It's crciket again!!! World Cup T20 it is!!! I am sure that this would eat away my time for another 15 days. But It cant get me the wonderful moments that the last one had gotten me. I will be missing all my buddies who were there with me last year, the kingfisher beer which can beat any costliest beer that you get here in USA, more importantly 203 TRILOCHAN which i would prefer next to my home.

Three Cheers to our Indian Team :)

I almost forgot to mention about a guy, my friend. I wont be doing justice to the blog about cricket, If I don't mention about him. So I am editing this post again and I just do not want to insert it anywhere in the middle as I believe ending a blog should be more important. We share so many common traits. If I get a text message when a cricket match is going on, I can be certain that that is from him. I am getting them even now when we guys are miles apart. We together share all the happiest and sorrowful moments right from BITS PILANI to till now. South Africa chased a massive target of 434 against Australia. India were out of the world cup 2007 not even reaching the super 8 stage. Ganguly left the Indian team. Dravid, the wall had been put into pressure by the critics. Sachin gave us a series victory against Australia with couple of mindblowing performances in the two finals that happenned in Australia. Chennai 600028 movie, Bhawan cricket, T20 world cup, Fwded mails about sachin and list never ends...

Sachin is our God. Cricket is our Religion.