It has emerged that one of the key sponsors of the tri-series Cycle Agarbatti has threatened to pull out from the tournament after the West Indies versus India encounter on Sunday night.
Finally, the organizers had agreed upon having a torch relay involving the two captains just before the toss. Bizarrely, they will be holding an Agarbatti in one hand while riding on a cycle onto the field. Believe it or not, this never happened before. Unluckily, the cycles and the Cycle Agarbattis never crossed the security check at the Sabina Park.
To be frank, Christopher Columbus would have been confused which team to support prior to the start of the game if he were alive. Dismally, Arun Lal was running out of questions at the toss and apparently it was only a matter of time before he began asking the captains about the birds! Amazingly, Dhoni adopted a new haircut that made him look 20 years younger, might be slightly older than Sachin Tendulkar. Actually, there wasn’t any conflict of interest at the toss with two CSK captains as someone immediately replaced Dwayne Bravo with Kieron Pollard.
If you view the coverage from Ten Sports, it was so miserable that Doordarshan would look like a HD Channel in front of it. Do you know? Stunningly, they were showing clippings from the cricket match in between the ads and not vice versa. In addition, the commentary team is full of s**t when you start rating Russel Arnold as one of the best commentators in the team. There were hardly a pair of thousands of spectators, but the noise of the Vuvuzelas was causing dreadful noise pollution. After sometime, it was good as you could almost avoid listening to Arun Lal’s commentary; but with the passage of time, it reached a point where everybody started to get irritated.
At last that awkward moment arrived. The match became so boring that people began to anticipate Monday. You won’t believe, this is something that had never happened in the history of corporate life. Rohit Sharma was finally given a few chances. Further, India landed in trouble with captain Dhoni and Raina attempting to revive the innings. Later, Dhoni pulled a muscle on his right leg and began limping. He kept on batting because despite limping, he was running faster than Ravichandran Ashwin. Some people even expected the BCCI to at once give a call to the ICC and scrap the no-runner rule. Now don’t get surprised if that happens!
Apparently, Tino Best resembled a poor man’s Shaun Tait who was entirely wayward and hit the bat once in a while. On the pavilion side, the noise from the Vuvuzelas never seemed to end. At this situation, the only logical explanation that came to my mind was that they must be chanting ‘Sachin Sachin’ with it.
After suffering the injury, Dhoni never took the field and it was Kohli’s job to defend this small total. He had learnt something after playing with Gayle in the IPL. Undoubtedly, smart field placement witnessed the end of the big man before he could even begin. With the course of time, Devon Smith and Samuels departed pretty quickly and Raina elbowed Rohit Sharma amidst all the jubilations. He would have quickly blamed his nephew for the same. Further, West Indies were three down and Jadeja hadn’t started bowling.
Above all, Charles did everything to impress the IPL team owners. He scored quickly, targeted all corners and shed his wicket just in time to haul India back into the game. Then wickets began falling in quick succession and gradually this game was descending to the wire. Truly, this happened despite Ravi Shastri and MS Dhoni were absent.
Only six runs were required and there was only one wicket left. In case the match ended in a draw, there would have been a mass suicide at the Sabina park. I am referring to the people who were blowing the Vuvuzelas. Kohli should have just approached Roach and informed that he should think that that golden chain on his neck might get bigger if he plays the IPL next year. However, he must have assumed that there is a fairplay award and decided against it. Unambiguously this is the difference between stand in captain Kohli’s and captain Dhoni’s luck.
Ultimately, Christopher Columbus is the real winner at the end of the day.
