When I am writing this blog, the Pak team must have been dropped at the Wagha border by one of our Tata mini buses and from there, the Pak players must be on the way to their homes either walking or on horse/bullock cart. Home Sweet Home for all of them.
Back to last night’s game, what an exciting, nail biting and emotionally draining the game was. Out of my own nervousness, I must have consumed hundreds of extra calories through chips, biscuits, soda etc. But that is not an issue and I can/will do extra workout to burn the additional intake of calories.
What a terrific game it was with each player chipping in their own way. It is rare to witness Team India excelling in all 3 aspects of cricketing, batting, bowling and fielding. But yesterday was that rare event. Our confidence was higher and our demeanor was better than our opponents. We outperformed our opponents in every possible way in all aspects of cricket including “Mind games”” where Pak team has years of experience and expertise.
Though Sehwag was out early, his hurricane contribution of 38 runs was a gift to Team India. It was due to those runs that the run rate of Team India never fell below 5, even when Pak had tightened the squeeze around us during middle overs. It was during those squeeze overs when I stopped watching the TV and went on to chant “हनुमान चालीसा”. Then, God’s 85 runs were exemplary. He proved once again as to why he is called God, who else can get so many chances, but Sachin did get the chances and made best of them. The end of Indian batting by Raina was phenomenal. It is due to him that team India had reached 260 otherwise 230 was the achievable target looking. Raina has proved yet again why he is a better player than Pathan. What is needed is a longer stay on the wicket and not a short lived glory of 2 sixers.
The entire Pak team played with a “Tantative”approach. Afridi, though looking confident through body language, was weak from inside and that was good for us. I had the hunch that Sehwag would take on Afridi and he did by taking his catch. One of the big contributors to our victory was Misbaha who stayed on crease for way too long without propping up the scoreboard numbers, and when he did decide to go for big shots, it was way too late. There is a saying in Hindi “का वर्षा जब क्रषी सुखाने । समय चूकि पुनि का पछिताने ।।”.
When the last missile fired from the muzzle of Zaheer was going to rest in the hands of Kolhi after hitting its target Misbaha, I could hear the soft Vedic Chants coming out of air.
ॐ पूर्णमिदम पुर्णामिदम पूर्णात पूर्ण मुदच्यते ।
पूर्णयस्य पूर्णमादाय पुर्ण मेवा विशिष्यते ।।
Why not, team India had offered its entireself in the game so the result had to be the Ultimate.
Beware Lankan Tigers; Indian Tigers are coming to hunt you.
Best wishes to team India in the final.
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