CHAK DE INDIA!!
Alright....we have,finally,after a looong wait spanning longer than Titanic's hull length,we have finally caught the kitty in the bag and earned a huge feather in our cricket-crazy caps.With more than a billion eyes on the men in blue,heavyweights like SRK ,Vijay mallya watchin the show and heartbeats going faster than Federer's shots,the match sure was a tantalizing concoction of adrenalin and emotions meters running at a break-neck speed!
I will not go much into the gameplay nuances as most of us are already bombarded with them thanks to euphoric and hysteric explosion in the media around the world,with fathomless depths of analysis and psychic cerebral analysis of what was going through Mahendra Singh Dhoni's mind to heart rate of Shoaib Malik at the crease,leave it to the media to do all that.......
But for us all that rests are the euphoric celebrations and cheers to the gallant opponents,the men in green who deserve a worthy oodles of appreciation too .Here are the brief T20 WC stats:
Batting - Total Runs
1 ML Hayden AUS 265
2 G Gambhir IND 227
3 Misbah-ul-Haq PAK 218
4 Shoaib Malik PAK 195
5 KP Pietersen ENG 178
Bowling - Total Wickets
1 Umar Gul PAK 13
2 SR Clark AUS 12
3 RP Singh IND 12
4 Shahid Afridi PAK 12
5 DL Vettori NZ 11
International Rankings
1 India 236
2 Pakistan 230
3 Australia 223
4 South Africa 209
5 Sri Lanka 207
It sure was a armageddon fight to a flawless finish and transcends India's ascent to the top Cricketing charts,a nice consolidation after the dismal 07 World Cup campaign that ended with several bucketfulls of tears ....and now ultimately with bucketfulls of joy..!
Hey,I better wind-up ,gotta blow the confetti around and crackers to crackle.....
All i say....CHAK DE ENCORE!!!