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:
The proteas won't be called CHOKERS any more... and such matches are once in a lifetime affair. An aggregate of 872 runs in a match is unprecedented.. The scoreboard should really be kept intact in remembrance of this epic match
Luk at the aussies now!!! they have given away 2 world record chases in the last couple of months. the last one was to new zealand!!! they r no more invincible!! Smith, gibbs and boucher hav shown the rest of the world the way!! fortunately it has happened before the '07 world cup!! i dont hav accolades enuff for the proteas...i mean they made the impossible.. possible ..to put it plain and simple!!
they have won the greatest one day of all times in every respect of the game. The kind of pressure which i was talking about was this one... but this will come so soon i never knew. does this mean that every thing is possible??
still piece wise ur earlier blog was better. that was fresh from heart. this was like a repeat.
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And I am pretty sure that a booky exists somewhere who made a fortune for himself and bought himself a villa in heaven
It was really a great match, and I couldn't believe that it was realy happening. And the sweetest part was that South Africa won. An Ausie win wouldn't have made this match so memorable even though they made 434.
Yo neel replied.. yo yo yo ... hooyaah !!
abe sale thr are traces of pink on ur blog..pink's gay..jaldi change kar le :D
But I thut lola was gay.
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