A Cool Chennaiite's personal webspace

The typical Indian fan

It is characterisitic of the Indian cricket fan to dream of the impossible when the team shows just a few hints of brilliance. I am no exception. I wrote this in sulekha on Jan 23 2004 for a blog contest when India was doing well against Australia in Australia. To read it again makes me look like a dumbass. This goes to prove that cricket is so unpredictable. Read on and have fun.

Indian cricket-What does the future hold?
The current series in Australia has raised all our hopes and many of us think that this is the best Indian team since Kapil’s devils. Each one of has an interesting picture of the Indian team of the future. The team that has everything it takes to win the world cup 2007 in the Americas. The team that will rattle the Aussies with its impeccable teamwork, the Proteas with its commitment on the field, the carribeans with its pace attack which would remind the carribeans of their golden days, the Pakistanis with its aggression, a team which would offer lessons to the best of sides to play better.Join me in the journey to the future.

Scene 1- Kingston, West Indies.,2007India’s devastating opener… Any guesses…the young wicketkeeper batsmen Parthiv Patel (he could become the Gilchrist of the Indian team, looking at the form he is in) is all set to face the first ball of the day. Shaun Pollock, the strike bowler of South Africa, is out of the game. He is suffering from acute diarrhoea, caused probably due to the nightmares of bowling the new ball to the devastator and to prevent his economy rate from shooting up like temperatures in Chennai when the Great Indian middle order takes over.

Scene 2- The Hotel where the Aussies are put up, a day prior to the world-cup finals,2007The Aussie captain announces at a press conference that the team management has requested Dr. Ashutosh Banerjee (when Indians are good in cricket, they can do well in other fields too), noted psychiatrist to counsel the Kangaroos who are trembling with the fear of being preyed upon by the Indian tiger.

Scene 3- Trinidad, West Indies India Vs Pakistan,2007India wins toss and elects to bat. The batting wizard, Virender Sehwag blasts the Pakistani bowling and at the end of 50 overs, he stands unbeaten at 205 and the Indian scores stands at 410/4. This innings sees 4 new records to be created, the fastest 50, the fastest 100, highest individual score and the highest aggregate by a team in an innings. In reply the Pakistanis were all out for 138 in 37 overs. The ball moved a lot during the Pakistani innings, partially due to the dew and to a major part due to the droplets of sweat in the pitch, the sweat of the Pakistanis when the pace of Pathan and Zaheer tormented them.

And finally

Scene 4- A middle-class residence in Southern Adelaide.2015An Australian student is typing something which seems to be an article on the future of Australian cricket . Here are the first few lines-“The current series in India has raised all our hopes and many of us think that this is the best Australian team since Ponting’s side.”This article was for the blogging contest organized by an Australian online community in view of a cultural extravaganza in an Adelaide University. He was inspired to write this because the Aussies were doing well against India in India. They scored their first ODI victory over Indians in India in 12 years.

posted by bragey @ 7:32 PM