Photo credits: Manish Harodia (manish.harodia@gmail.com)
Sahil Goyal (sahilgoyal2002@gmail.com) reports from the mess:
From 3-1 down to levelling the series at 3-3, the 5th of September brought with it, a nail-biter of a match between two evenly matched sides. Surely, the whole of India danced to the tunes of the evergreen opening pair of Tendua/Dada and towards the end - the bench strength of Robin Uthappa (or Uthappatha as Atherton put it during the presentation ceremony).
The scene in the IIM K mess was no different. Never in the history of IIMK, has the mess been able to attract such a huge crowd. No, not even the Sunday special lunch. For the record, even the Ghissu Kelkars were right there clapping for each and every run scored. The atmosphere was simply electrifying. Cheering every Chinese cut by Dhoni and the Douglas Mariller scoops by Robin Uthappa formed the course for the post-dinner Mess audience.
As the Indian chase became more and more improbable, one could see Harodia getting frustrated pointing fingers at Collingwood and not just the index finger. The best gestures however were threats of bumps that some of the emotional fans at K threw at Suresh and Harodia in case India lost the match. And what has that to do with the India loss? Both of them belong to Jharkhand and with 8 runs required from every over, poor Dhoni could only play out a few dot balls. :D
Come 8th of September, India and England will battle it out in the series decider... let's see who gets kicked in the mess this time around ;)
4 comments:
Chak de India!!! It was an awesome game. Lets hope for the best in the last game.
I have only one remorse. We should have given celebratory bumps to Harodia
Absolutely sensational.. both - the victory and the celebrations! :D
Well said Sahil...the atmosphere in mess was more electric than at the ground!!!
I was there for the Wimbledon final and even then, the atmosphere was fantastic...Doubtless, the mess would have gone to town when India beat England that nite... Damn! How did I miss it???????
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