Cliché.
How many thousand times has "The Hindu" printed this. Don't worry... pick up todays paper and I'm sure you'll find it. Or maybe tomorrows.
So the IPL is over, declared a huge success, we had our drama and what not, and those who got their money got their money. Almost as an afterthought, you have this "Amazing final" with the "best team coming out on top". And its all summed up in one line. Right??
Wrong.
Amazing final = CSK win. Thats how it works. And before all you purists start wagging your sterile, and abnoxiously long tongues, I dont really care for the 'Game' coming out on top. I wanted CSK to win, plain and simple.
That they didnt is no big deal actually. They played an awesome game. They dropped a few, they hit a few, and they gave... well... more than a few. But thats what, in retrospect, i find so charming about the team. They're always smiles. Ntini... Murali and of course, Dhoni. Maybe that wide gleam disappeared off Balaji, but it ll be back there soon. For the record, he bowled a horrible 3 overs, and an amazing 4th one. No bowler in the world could have bowled better.
What IS a big deal, is that a little birdie wasnt really singing the Super King Tune. Granted, the birdie may have found the Deep Roar a bit hard to mimic, but then we arent really born Lions are we... doesnt stop us from trying. What the birdie WAS doing was sit in her Royal little cage and twitter away to glory.
That came out bad. Chuck it. No actually, don t. It makes me feel better.
Anyway... its irritating that people can't support Chennai. We just have to. Being ignored for national selection so long (Badrinath), ill natured remarks against our younger players (Vidyuth), and numerous equations worked out to push us out of tthe top 4 and push Mumbai in (Every onther news channel)... you would think that could stir up some regional pride. So what if we're not full of local lads? End of the day, its Chennai that comes on the scorecards.
On a side note, Dhoni is awesome. You wont find many captains who speak to every single one of his players before the last ball is bowled, and after coming out on the not so shiny side of the old ball. And you wont find many who says "We lost as a team" and not proceed to elaborate which half chances they must NOT regret. Sure, Raina missed one catch in a hundred, Goni and balaji didnt stick their hands out fast enough, Parthiv cant so much as scratch his nose with the gloves on and Morkel didnt know if he had a size 12 or a size 13 shoe on. It doesnt matter.
I thought that if the Super Kings won, it would have made my day. An anticlimax for the ages. the way they lost, made my week. I would have remained a CSK fan no matter what. But thanks to what they showed us on field yesterday, I m proud to be one.
Congrats to the Royals. We ll beat you next time. Count on that.
Typically incoherent. Sigh. Oh well... guess i ll blame this one on the night being young.
2 comments:
Are u sarcastic by any means? Balaji ruined the day for CSK...Apparently, the fourth over, as u claim happened to be 'amazing' (actually not even close to good :P) merely cuz there was no Yusuf Pathan or Shane Watson to slaughter him...haha...He did not contain even a single delivery, but yeah, the last over was 'amazing'. He tried something stupid bowling a wide off the last most crucial match deciding over, but yeah, the last over was 'amazing' :P
u try getting 'slaughtered'for the greater part of 3 overs, and actually picking up the ball. Im sure Dhoni asked balaji n ntini abt who s bowling which over. It wd have been oh so easy for balaji to bowl the penultimateone. He didnt... of course there is some sense there.. if ntini HAD not given that last boundary *poor guy* then balaji wd have been under no pressure at all, which was good captaincy
Anyway, to digress... that wide ball was well... ya pretty bad... but do u remember what happened after he bpwled that,the awesome collection by patel? Thats why Dhoni said its a team loss.. ogda knows the bowlers are under enough pressure without the kind of fielding CSK showed
Anyways, look at it this way... 6 runs off a death over in T20... pretty goood i wd say
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