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India Won The Toss - But Destiny Slashed the Game
Jainita
2003 World cup was something real strange for all of us. But for me for my first experience of something crazy in Life. India had won the toss, but captain suggested Australia to bat hoping that we could get the advantage of a pitch which was damp by rain.. The final
Australian score was of 359 with 2 wickets in 50 overs.
Our score was highly affected when our hero; the great Sachin
Tendulkar was out in the first over after skiing a pull shot, Then our
eyes was on Virender Sechwag. There was then the electricity of our
society was cut and we all were taken aback. Now the only way was to either go
to some friends place or just keep on checking the score through a friend. That
was not the time of smart phones with whatsupp and internet on phone was not
that simple. I called couple of my frirnds who stays nearby but all were out
with friends or relatives. Ultimately i did the craziest thing i went to one of
my friend's place where some guest were gonna come to see his sister.Went
i reached at his place already people were sitting and i just went in saying
that "shewag ka kya scene hai i hope he is still playing" - all were
shocked but the guys dad was enthu like me and he was like arrey switch on the
TV lets watch TV. Hooo I was saved but i still find that action of mine to be
very funny. Then there was second incident on same when schewag was out and the only hope was “RAIN” which
fortunately poured after 17 overs when we were at 103 runs with 3 wickets gone.
This was
the time when I started actually praying and lighting diyas in front of god
just to hope that it should rain more and India should be saved.
However,
this rain passed by, and India's and my hopes were slashed when Sehwag was run
out by Darren Lehman followed by Rahul Dravid.
The
summers were drying the neck but the only thirst was that India Wins the World
Cup. This was my first experience of Cricket World Cup.
No
matter Ponting was named "Man of the Match", but the great Tendulkar
was named "Player of the Series."
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is a very good platform for getting information on all the sports especially
Cricket IPL. Best part of star sports i found was on 6th may when there was a
match of Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers IPL Match. I was coming from
borivali to parla via road and was stuck on highway due to closed of goregaon
flyover at oberoi mall. The match was started and
i was still under traffic, there then my friend suggested to watch the match
live on starsports.com so we turned my mobile which was 3g and had a
best time in that traffic watching the match live without any disturbance
and enjoyed our worst drive.
Enjoy Cricket