Crazy-game for the crazy people eh?

The story of an IPL team:

A captain who is famously called ‘unfit’ for the shortest form of the madness called cricket in spite of having over 10000 runs against his name in both the other established forms of the game and standing 5th on the list of the players with maximum runs in test cricket..only true thing is that the gods have given him lesser luck as he has enough talent and agreed that he does not score boundaries like the other ‘poster boys’..but, when he hits the ball on the off side it goes to the off side not to the leg side boundary like many others’ shots do..

A bowling attack without any teeth to sting though it comprises the world’s second best fast bowler and the second highest wicket taker of the tourney…and of course mention has to be made of the Indian leg spinner who is next on the charts after a Shane Warne!...true that they did not sting very hard in the past

But, on a day when they were on the mat at 40 off 10 overs for the loss of some 4 wickets …a below par score in the newest form of slam-bang cricket…thanks to some lethal bowling from the opposition bowlers and of course illogical batting from the team in consideration also…they came back to stun the opposition by catching them 14 runs shy of the target!

Considering the events of the match our captain struck a defiant 47 off 39 deliveries which had 6 hits to the fence…all of which were classic examples of how to play those shots…he is unfit oh yeah? Oooh…look at the strike rate... its very low! Yeah he does not put the bat to everything in whichever way ,but he does only in the way it has to be done ..eventually it was the highest score in the match also.This was not the first instance in which he top scored for his side.

Well..the opposition given a paltry 127 to chase in 20 overs on a wicket which was flat a model’s mid-section(no pun intended J)..raced to 85 for one in 12 overs two well set batsman in crease playing shots with consummate ease off the bowlers…the champion comes in picks up two crucial wickets with lethal deliveries and some more good back up from the other bowlers left the side 15 runs shy short of victory.

Moral of the story: It’s a lions heart which wins matches not the brutal force of the hand which dispatches the ball to the boundary to the spectators glee and..of course!.. a steady mind also

Read on!!!

The team in discussion was the Banglore Royal challengers who were at the bottom of the table Led by Rahul Dravid and bowled to Victory by Anil Kumble and Dale Steyn..The opposition was the Chennai super kings playing at home…

My request: People,if you still call Dravid a test player and Dhoni better than him please try learning cricket..it was the patient 47 which kept the team in the hunt not a quickfire 15…though being aggressive helps being soft does not hurt at all. When I was watching the home leg of the same match which Chennai won by Dhoni’s pyrotechnics and Dravid’s softness I still wince at the insults people hurled at him..if a player who has won so many matches for the nation is treated like this then the worse players are at a much pitiable state in this Cricket-crazy nation..and please watch cricket and not your favorites cheering your favorites may bring you joy but booing another might hurt many so…please mature!!..I refer the Booing of Sachin when he was Duck out also…Well! What more should he accomplish? And please sport is entertainment and it remains that way till people watching it are really sane and watch the sport also at times!

Phew! I thought this much after the match and the thoughts ended when I went off to watch The final of the European cup..what a match..!!! now im too sleepy to type about that…so next post!