The India Pakistan world cup final victory for India felt nothing short of a thousand splendid suns! In the end, it was all worth it. The whole day planning around the match timings...all the tension and anxiety that all of India went through. That evening, all of Bangalore seemed to be leaving from work in time for the match at 5:30pm. It was so obvious...the regular 6-7pm traffic jams were happening at 4-5pm that evening...but for once, seeing the crazy traffic that evening at 5 felt good...it felt like all of the country was united in something...all of us were one big team...and doing our bit of sending positive energy to our representatives on the playing field at Johannesburg that evening! :)
I am glad, I came out of it alive! I was really worried that the next days news would read 'girl in Bangalore dies of heart attack watching India Pakistan cricket match'. The last ball of the match, where the cool Misbah made the mistake of trying to hit a 6 in the wrong side of the field, and getting caught instead and thus giving the cup to us...caught us all by surprise. We were all hopeful, obviously, but the way Misbah was going there seemed to be no stopping them. The surprise victory was actually too much to take...I realised we were all so caught up in it all...so involved in this...I for one, couldn't say anything for a couple of seconds..voice just didn't come out, I was so dumbstruck! After the jumping and screaming..and crying and laughing, we all picked up our phones to share the moment with our folks who were watching the match in another city...and guess what...all the networks were jammed...and no calls went through!
That evening was a treat to this cricket crazy nation. A day all of us will remember for a very long long time and cherish....just like the '83 victory for all of us who were old enough to remember seeing it. The picture of Kapil Dev in his navy blue jersey, cup in hand, the team behind, the champagne...though 14 years old, hasn't faded from memory. Its nice to have another picture of a young raring-to-go team lead by Dhoni to cherish! :) Nothing short of a thousand Splendid suns!
(BTW, Khaled Hosseini's latest book 'A thousand splendid suns' is worth a read!)
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2 comments:
Cute :-)
I was among those who get stcuk in the traffic on Monday.
I watched the match and left for Germany. It was worth it...
- I
What is a wide? ;-)
Acha even I am glad that I am alive...that cell phone network jam was too much, totally expect such a thing from us... :)
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