Miracle Moments: chak de india...!

These days i've stopped botherin much abt indian cricket...infact it's been a while since i hurried to the CR, abandoning my routine to watch cricket..i thought..those days...wen all the ppl in the CR swayed as an entity, a single body of multifaceted diversities..of states languages and other stuff civil rights activists brag abt, cheering ..booing and shouting at the antics of those eleven men in blue, were long gone !!! but incidents such as the one im abt to discuss strongly press me to review my perspective.

After a gud toil for a 2 and a half hours in the QT playin cricket(i was never against playing in the first place!!!), i walked quite reluctantly to the CR to watch wat i expected to be another abysmal performance as team india..had already proved to be utterly disappointing...in the last few overs of the english innings. my god! 5 sixes in the last 5 balls of the innings..given tat..i don't expect better.but,therez this "indianness" in all of us..tat pushes us to hope against our better judgement and linger to experience a miracle or two!!!

Amagingly i got one. i've seen the sachin tendulkar of old..the one..who gracefully drives.. flicks...strikes with ease..dancing at the crease, well supported by ganguly, with his trademark offside drives and lazy pulls!! and watz more....the crowd ..we were all one...cheering...applauding...wondering...and above all staying united ...one in thought.. .action.and...expression jst like the old times. but then again as always, good times never last long...the same olds cramps..fumble in stealing quick singles and fall of wickets...ganguly...sachin...gambhir...yuvraj...dhoni....they fell one after the other. then came the man....robin uthappa...hez been on the bench for far too long..but he fell in place at the right moment...showing amazing nerve...at the clutches of defeat. although lady luck had her share in his innings,it was a valiant effort. with the two fours he struck in the last over of the indian innings, the jubiliant crowd...giving high fives to each other and the passionate yells, the miracle was complete.

I've experienced the same old feeling... cricket may hav many flaws..but none can deny...it's such a gr8 unifying factor in a country like our very own...!!!