Impacts of Indian Triumph in WC
I remeber the day that came on 19th April...I was already dreaming of India playing on 2nd April and so as all Indians.Even the guys who were saying that India don't have any chance had a wish to see the team playing the final. It was started as a big dream for every Indian..I saw cricketing talk at each meeting place whether it's office, restaurent, bus, or on a walk also. All people were expert at that time analyzing each Indian game and some guys like me deeply watching all the games wheteher it was a minows game or big guns game. Just to enjoy the worldcup and to check out the actual Indian chance in fornt of all other teams.
India started in a style demolishing Tigers from Bangla in the vary 1st game of WC,taking revenge of the last cup.Then easy game v/s the self belivers Irish guys which just gave India the enough practice. Eng was next on the card India piled up a huge score and seen the greatest see-saw game and in the end the perfect result came "Tie",A cricketing geek can't ask more then this in a WC game. Again a practice session against fiery Netehrland. Almost same finish as the game v/s Eng in the next game v/s SA but losing the only game in the last over. Again questions were asked that can India survive againsts the likes of Aus and SA ? India cleared the next step easily v/s WI.
And now the big stage was there people and players were really feeling the heat.It was the show time against 3 in a row winner Aus. I rored the whole day "Aussie ki Taisi". No bowlers were getting help Aus batsman were slowly putting on the another win. Then the big turner - Sachin came to turn the fortunes for India and turned few deliveries sharply in the 1st over. I belived that India has a chance now but nothing much happened and India bowled reasonable well in last overs but left behind a big score to compete. As many times happened Yuvraj had to prove that he can play for India and he got the biggest chance, played sensibly with other guys sticking around and one can easily started seeing the "Nail-Bightings" of the aus skipper,feeling the pressure of being thrown out of the team if his team doesn't end up on the winning side on that day. But it was all easily done in the end by Raina-getting the chance in place of Yusuf and the performer of the series Yuvraj singh. As I and many belived it was an Virtual final who evrer win that, was supposed to end up with the cup. So the people was going bizzare on that day.
Now what ? Indo/Pak semis ? WC can't get better..India entered the semis with never lose record against pakistanis in world cups and with a great win in the last game aginst the no. one team. It was always Indians who were favourites but at the same time every one knew how unexpected is the Pakistanis. The close contest was for sure. India batted 1st but ended up with 20/30 runs short. And with Munaf and Nehra both playing together I felt that India is 50/60 runs short. But this time the unexpected thing happened from Indian side both the guys bowled fantastic not giving any easy runs. And we were cheering each dot ball in the office with few friends. Every wicket was making us charged for more cheere and again the Misbah show happened, the guy was again fighting alone as he fought on the 2007's T20 finale day. Umar Akmal,Razzaq and Afridi was expected to play aggressively to get catch up with the required run rate which was going on the sky thanks to Misbah's turtle pased innings. But no one fired and Misbah tried to hit every boundary out of the park in the end but that was not possible on that day against Munaf and Nehra. And India finished on the top. Now the momentum had started public was on the roads after realizing that India has won against Pak and now they will play finals. Indian flags were being waved, hand shakes, hugs, hi-fives to completely unkonwn people. And I was realizing the Nation's Cricket love on that day. Every body was not going to sleep on that night and not for another 3 days dreaming about the cup.
India...India...Bring home the Glory...Repeat 83...Win it for Sachin..Complete the 1 billion dreams and so much more people were saying and listning on that day. I decided to watch the game on the local ground having a big screen streaming,wanted to have a feel of 10K people. It was a public holiday. Every body crossed their fingers. Every body just wanted to live that dream. And the game started India lost the toss SL chose to bat as any team have done in a big game. Mahela wanted to make it a day to remember for Murli who was playing his last game and Sanga and him self playing their last WC games. Gave a target that was to big to chase in the World Final. People thought that they have made 20/30 runs extra then any team need to win a WC final game. And Indian hopes started to go down in vary 1st over of Malinga..Sehwag the man who can chase you those runs was out with the duck, People belived Sachin has to complete his dream him self,have to make his 100th 100. But shortly he fell too. And no Indian was able to speak a word for next few mins, all were in great discomfort. And after few mins they speaked the first thing "Why MSD is coming ahead of Yuvi-The man in form ?". But that guy's decisions are never wrong, never down. He proved it again played a classic innings and so as the new Mr. dependable Gautam Gambhir playing the big innings on the day when it was needed the most. And then slowly and gradually both taking SL out of the game. Just a spark came when Gauti got out tyring to hit the ball for his century but now yuvi didn't wanted to leave it to somebody else, scored the remaining runs easily. And the never forgetfull shot came the ball went out of the park. Dhoni didn't knew how to react, Yuvraj was screaming at the other end. Dhoni was not able to show his emotins and Yuvi was showing all his emotions,started to cry on the field. Hugged Dhoni and roared. From the dressing room Sachin show his dream being ful filled, ran out of the box to the ground jumped on both the guys and all other players started running after Sachin. Players carried Sachin and Guru Garry. Emotions were rising high on each individuals, lakhs of people felt the cry of joy on that day, I was one of them. And finally the moment came what India waited from years "to see the World Cup in Sachin's hand"...And I was not able to remember any better moment then that. Again public on road,shouting, waving flags, hi-5's, hus and much more.
Still in the same mood, still I am bleeding blue. At the time of writting this also almost crying. What more ??
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