Take it easy

I was forced twice in a day and man was it compelling !!!!!!!

How many times people have tried to predict the outcome of a cricket game and have end up putting their foot in their mouth! Sadly(actually happily) today it was my turn to jump the gun and fall flat on my chest. As they say cricket is an unpredictable game and you cannot tell the outcome of the game until the last ball is bowled. And indeed this turned out to be a game where the last but one ball mattered. I mean these are the times when you know how flimsy our level of prediction is. Our logic our calculations, our analysis of cricket have all been dismissed by one of the most courageous display of human endeavour. The game of cricket brings about character, it makes a hero out of people representing their country and I am sure every South African is a hero today. They have done the impossible, they have conquered against all odds and it was a display of pure magic which is going to be etched in our memory forever.

Today any cricket lover whichever nationality he may belong to would have watched stunned by a bewitching display of batsmanship by both the teams.

But atleast I was right about one thing. The scoreboard of this match should be kept intact by the ground personale. They should install a new scoreboard and keep aside today's scoreboard and later display it in a museum for this was truly one historic game and I believe it deserves its merit as one of the best one day games ever both for the number of runs scored and for the courage shown by the players playing it.

With this win the South Africans have probably avenged their semifinal defeat in the 1999 world cup. And this win may go down well in history as something that might change the way the game is played for ever. I am pretty much repeating the same thing over and over again but I am sure the reader won't be bored because every word will draw him/her to this day when I couldnt have made a bigger fool of myself and we were to witness this terrific fightback.

I am sure as hell God exists somewhere and this sure was nothing less than a miracle.

posted by LitmusTest @ 8:07 AM 9 comments

I was forced to write this !!

I am not very exceptional at writing but some events add an extra zing to what I pen down. Here is one such event. I hope you take some time to admire the event and the description of it ;)

"Today was a game which has overshadowed all that has happened in this fantastic year for cricket. It has made the ashes look like urchins playing cricket with a deformed bat and an unfriendly semi-round object on a pitch that could be compared to the rockies or the andes. The saurav ganguly greg chappell split has been renduced to a mere spat in a pub over some cheap wine. The juvenile ramblings of smith are now comparable to that of equally passionate rants of bongs patronizing ganguly and they are all a non issue now.
Only one thing comes to mind.

"They can speak all they can and we will play and shut them up"- ricky ponting on eve of today's match.

They sure have shut up every toddler with his broken semi-made bat trying to model a Tendulkar and fervently refusing to get out even after being clean bowled to stop cribbing over petty things and look at the next level, the real standard that they need to match or emulate.(Perhaps !!)

History will record today's score board and call it the frozen score. We needn't consider the score of the south african innings as they can only blemish the scoreboard from here on.

posted by LitmusTest @ 4:16 AM 3 comments