This is a live reaction of a conglomerate of people after watching
There was clapping and jubilation all around and the bay was filled with meaningless banter and repartee all around.
For a while I could not believe the situation and thought I was dreaming , India were thrashed mercilessly by this young England side and were given a virtual impossible target of 317 to chase and here are all the members of the team rejoicing as if we had won the match out of the skin.
I then realized a hard fact of life : when the situation comes out of control you do not ponder over in depression that this happened , rather you are left hopeless and smile at yourself accepting as if it were in your destiny and no matter how hard you could have tried this had to happen.
It was a belief on the part of the people here that now that
By the end of the 45th over there was a belief all over the place that
We were hooked on the Internet and pushing F5 each few seconds to view the latest score but we did not quite expect the 5 sixes in the last over of the innings.
On every click of the F5 we could see the sixes column under Yuvraj singh incrementing one by one and could not help but smile at the situation.
What was even more surprising was the fact that after all this jubilation and people saying that they had lost all hope they stuck to the Internet once again after a break of 30 minutes or so again pressing the F5 key in perfect symphony.
They were again hoping for another miracle that has not happened for a few years now.
I too like the other optimistic Indian fans am hoping for an Indian revival and hope that at least we have a good start and wish that once I reach home we are on our way to do the impossible.
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How often does one feel as though there is nothing else to look forward to and suddenly you see a miracle giving back you the hope you had lost.
Not very often, but here is one live example where I found that indeed things like these can happen and one must never lose hope.
I lost hope in the Indian team yesterday after seeing the bowling performance and thought the series was lost now, and here I am today writing for the team that showed the grit and determination to fight back against all odds.
Leaving aside the words like passion, commitment and “Chak de” the match reminded the Natwest trophy final a few years back when Yuvraj and Kaif brought India home chasing a mammoth total of over 300.
i have been hopeing to see that kind of performance from the Indian side from the last final and finally my wish was blessed yesterday with India winning from a near impossible position and chased the mammoth total of 316.
I must admit that I am not a cricket fanatic fan like the other 90 crore fanatic fans but there are times when you want to jump up and dance up in the air in jubilation and it was just one of those days yesterday.
While Tendualkar and Ganguly were going strong I was pretty sure we could well go near the target but once we started losing wickets in the middle overs I was dismayed and probably lost hope that we could pull off this one.
During the last 10 over’s the partnership of Dhoni and Uthappa battled hard and gave India an excellent chance.
The luck also seemed to be with the team with more than a couple of fours going through between the bat and the wicket and the majority of the boundaries coming off the batsmen edges rather than the face of it.
The England bowlers were bowling the perfect line , right up there in the block hole and they were looking like a team committed to winning the series on the day.
There were far and few fours in between the inning that both Uthappa and Dhoni played and I had to think a few times where the runs were flowing from looking at the scoreboard.
It was a heroic performance from both of them to lead India to victory.
It was probably unfortunate on the part of England to be at the losing end of such an enthralling battle, it was one of those games where neither of the teams deserved to lose and in my book there were 2 winners on the day and no losers.
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