I just got back from watching my first ever cricket match live. Words don’t do justice to the emotions going about the stadium and the hopes fluctuating with every shot. One has to be there to experience it. I dislike cricket, but the emotions surging in the crowd are so powerful that everyone gets swept up in the game - every good shot is cheered and the bad ones regretted.
This was the highest scoring one day international ever, and one of the most thrilling matches to watch. At the beginning when India was going great guns people were really disappointed - they hadn’t come to see this. Then, the magnificent display of batting won people over and they started cheering the Indian side. Some people just outright gave up on the Pakistan team and become whole hearted India fans, if just for that day.
All the India batsmen played so well that it was hard not to cheer them, and sure enough the crowd started cheering on Tendulkar, Gangulay,Sehwag… they would applaud the good balls (though there were hardly any) and the next minute clap like mad for the next four (there were lots of those).
At the beginning of the Pakistani innings, things seemed hopeless with two out for hardly any runs. People started to leave… and we were debating whether to leave or not when things suddenly changed. Inzamam started playing like a cricket god and Younis at the other end tore apart the Indian bowling. The last 30 overs were nail biting, with every four and six getting a standing ovation.
At the end, when India won at the last ball, it wasn’t really even a disappointment. Pakistan couldn’t have been expected to do any better - they gave it their all in the end and the crowd definitely got their money’s worth.
The Indian team got a five minute standing ovation as they walked off the field. It was a pround day to be a Pakistani. We lost, but as they say, it’s not whether you win or lose but how you play the game, and by george both sides played.
This was the highest scoring one day international ever, and one of the most thrilling matches to watch. At the beginning when India was going great guns people were really disappointed - they hadn’t come to see this. Then, the magnificent display of batting won people over and they started cheering the Indian side. Some people just outright gave up on the Pakistan team and become whole hearted India fans, if just for that day.
All the India batsmen played so well that it was hard not to cheer them, and sure enough the crowd started cheering on Tendulkar, Gangulay,Sehwag… they would applaud the good balls (though there were hardly any) and the next minute clap like mad for the next four (there were lots of those).
At the beginning of the Pakistani innings, things seemed hopeless with two out for hardly any runs. People started to leave… and we were debating whether to leave or not when things suddenly changed. Inzamam started playing like a cricket god and Younis at the other end tore apart the Indian bowling. The last 30 overs were nail biting, with every four and six getting a standing ovation.
At the end, when India won at the last ball, it wasn’t really even a disappointment. Pakistan couldn’t have been expected to do any better - they gave it their all in the end and the crowd definitely got their money’s worth.
The Indian team got a five minute standing ovation as they walked off the field. It was a pround day to be a Pakistani. We lost, but as they say, it’s not whether you win or lose but how you play the game, and by george both sides played.
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