“They attacked on Tuesday, repeated on Friday and I am replying on a Wednesday”- one of the strongest b-town dialogues of recent times ( Nas Shah to Anupam Kher in the movie- Wednesday). Hope MIB are listening.
I was scanning through today’s newspaper and the three sports pages were almost all about what Mohali is going to unfold in few hour’s time. Y-day’s S/F clash between SL and NZ was reduced almst to a footnote. Such is the hype of this particular game and its impact seems to be second to no other sports news in India.
At centurion few years ago, Akhtar barged in and banged one short that Sahin cut over third man boundary for a massive six to mark the writing on the wall. As if that was not enough, the apprentice photocopied that shot, but this time Waqar was on the receiving end. No matter how hard Akhtar now tries to deny that he does not remember that shot of Sachin, I can bet my a** on the fact that the tailor-made-for-camera-moment will be remembered as long as cricket survives. And ditto for the nightmarish shot of Misbah in the T-20 final which found the waiting palms of Sreesanth. I think even Imran and Javed are also suffering from short term memory loss.
With team Sachin-Sehwag going great guns and Yuvi giving a performance of his life-time, its everyone’s guess which bowling side wud be under more pressure. Taking no credit away from Afridi’s purple patch ( for a change, its not bang bang Afridi thie time), I feel Indian batters will come on the top. Gul is surely going to pose a potential threat. But didn’t Bret Lee do the same thing the other day. The maturity with which he was tackled by baba and veeru was there for everyone to take a note of.
On paper, it is going to be a battle of Indian batting vs Pak bowling and so on the field too. Torrential rain last night would certainly have forced both the teams to have their plan-B ready. However my tip would be stick to your plan-A only. Its how perfectly you execute your plan-A will help you win more often than not.
It is for the media to keep flashing ‘ it is the mother of all battles”, ‘Epic tussle of nerves and skills’..blah blah.......And, for both the teams, it should be just yet another game. I feel i t is little unfair to pressurize the players who are there doing their jobs in a manner that they know the best. For us cricket fans, its all about fun, beer, friends, pub, and i-know-it-all strategies, post-mortems, half day in office, etc.........But whatever- its all abt blood, sweat and blue today.......Jai Ho.....
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