8th May, 8 PM, Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
Possibly the match could be seen as the battle to top the IPL group (from bottom). Both the teams are literally strugling to compete with other top-rung teams like that of yuvi's (read preity's) and dhoni's.
The Match
Considering the team capabilities, even the rain god didn't want to torture his followers with a 40 over match. Rather the rain god did his very best to abandon the match. But the sheer amount of money associated with matches just can't make the organisers quit, and that too against a fanatic crowd of eden garden(remember India's 96 world cup semis or the India Pak 2002 test which could only be resumed after vacating the stands). Since the game was shortened I expected excitement levels to grow, atleast that was the logic to shift from 50 overs to 20 overs. If we exclude the slots where dada and wall were out with their weapons (which they use more to defend than to attack), the game was exciting. Just after being shell shocked by those 2 innings, even the blasts of Hussey, Saha and White sounded peaceful. Both the teams had a purpose, to win, but only riders showed that by their fielding standards. Taibu and Hodge showed the everyone how to catch the leather rather than chasing it. Talking about purpose, did the captains showed any ? Atleast DADA did with his immaculate bowling, and a MoM to boost his efforts can't be questioned. But what is with dravid, its obvious that he is not the most ideal person for this format but atleast like others he can try to hit out. No one has held his bat from swinging at the bowlers, most of the credit of 3 overs for 7 runs of DADA goes to Dravid. At the end some superb bowling by ishant and equally remarkable captaincy from saurav helped riders register their third win of the coveted league.
Zeroth Umpire: Thats me
As the number of field umpires have been 3 and DoorDarshan taking the slot of the fourth umpire(remember mandira and charu), so taking the slot of fifth umpire will be making me last on list (which i don't like). So i cheat on the concept of zero day placements of management school I choose to be a zeroth umpire. For this match , I am already bored with the game and writing so much , so I am signing off. See you soon.
Possibly the match could be seen as the battle to top the IPL group (from bottom). Both the teams are literally strugling to compete with other top-rung teams like that of yuvi's (read preity's) and dhoni's.
The Match
Considering the team capabilities, even the rain god didn't want to torture his followers with a 40 over match. Rather the rain god did his very best to abandon the match. But the sheer amount of money associated with matches just can't make the organisers quit, and that too against a fanatic crowd of eden garden(remember India's 96 world cup semis or the India Pak 2002 test which could only be resumed after vacating the stands). Since the game was shortened I expected excitement levels to grow, atleast that was the logic to shift from 50 overs to 20 overs. If we exclude the slots where dada and wall were out with their weapons (which they use more to defend than to attack), the game was exciting. Just after being shell shocked by those 2 innings, even the blasts of Hussey, Saha and White sounded peaceful. Both the teams had a purpose, to win, but only riders showed that by their fielding standards. Taibu and Hodge showed the everyone how to catch the leather rather than chasing it. Talking about purpose, did the captains showed any ? Atleast DADA did with his immaculate bowling, and a MoM to boost his efforts can't be questioned. But what is with dravid, its obvious that he is not the most ideal person for this format but atleast like others he can try to hit out. No one has held his bat from swinging at the bowlers, most of the credit of 3 overs for 7 runs of DADA goes to Dravid. At the end some superb bowling by ishant and equally remarkable captaincy from saurav helped riders register their third win of the coveted league.
Zeroth Umpire: Thats me
As the number of field umpires have been 3 and DoorDarshan taking the slot of the fourth umpire(remember mandira and charu), so taking the slot of fifth umpire will be making me last on list (which i don't like). So i cheat on the concept of zero day placements of management school I choose to be a zeroth umpire. For this match , I am already bored with the game and writing so much , so I am signing off. See you soon.
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