Clash of the Titans

India Vs Pakistan … That too in a T20 World Cup Final!!!

That was one heck of a game. Let me take you back in time. Well I was supposed to play a hockey practice match. I knew the match was to start at 4:30 pm, but I had to go to the match as our coach had organized it. We played ok, but that’s not what this is about, isn’t it?
I don’t have a cable connection or a dish T.V. at my place. I didn’t want to miss this match as I had already missed India Vs Australia and South Africa … man those were some matches! So while returning back home, I decided to land into my bhaiyya and bhabhi’s place. Amazingly I found my parents also there already, talk about the cricket crazy country, huh.
Well RP, Pathan did a good job with the ball, but we all were damn angry at bhajji and shreesanth for blowing it off. But hey, I think somebody had to take the edge of the knife, after all it’s the pakis we were playing with. Towards the end Mizbah-ul-Haq really gave all of us a chill when he hit bhajji for a six three times in the same over. Later too in the last over he hit a six and we all thought it was over. But something happened there which I think led me to believe that It was India’s day all along. I can still hear all of us screaming and hopping with joy as Misbah was caught by shreesanth. “Bless u shree”, must have been the words of almost every Indian. It was a very close match and I appreciate how pakis fought till their last wicket. I am not sure Indians in the same position would have put up the same fight as the pakis did. Moreover, Pakistani team has more fans in India than in Pakistan (no offence but that’s true). I still remember when I saw Shahid Afridi, Aqib Javed, Sayeed Anwar surrounded by huge crowd … in Chandigarh, when they were there for a World Cup Match against Sri Lanka. I personally feel that the T20 World Cup winners are both India and Pakistan, but if you must have a winner, so be it.