Sunday, July 28, 2024

India's T20 World Cup Triumph 2024

 "Dhoni finishes off in style, It's India who win the World Cup." These lines said by Ravi Shastri had gone old with respect to India's World Cup Trophy drought. The most dominating team in bilateral series could not win an ICC Trophy and this was the biggest disappointment for ICT fans. After losing the 2023 world cup final, the first thought which came into my mind was that most probably 2024 t20 wc would be the last world cup Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will play together. So, this was their only chance for a world cup glory and they did not gave us a feeling of dismay, sadness and disappointment but an year full of cherishing memories, joy and happiness






India won the T20 World Cup 2024 happening in the USA and West Indies. They became the only team to win a world cup staying unbeaten. Their journey to the final was a happening one from the high pressure game against or the game against Australia. Especially, the game against Pakistan was a sheer representation of the evolution of Indian team's pace battery in the last decade. From 98 percentage of winning the match with Pakistan our pace battery broke their dreams of winning a game against India as they took the game from them in the last 10 overs. From the first game to the last one, India never looked a under confident or worn out team as they dominated everybody they faced badly. One such win was against Australia in the Super Eight which was personal for every Indian citizen ( If you know what I am talking about). Rohit's knock in that game was the indication of the frustration he had in himself after every knockout loss in every world cup in the last 5-6 years with more respect to 19th November. Then comes the Semifinal against England and that transition from 10 wicket win to 10 wickets out was outstanding. The game was one sided as soon as England completed their powerplay during the batting stint. Every cricket in the team was hungry of that silverware. So, they never looked back to the losses they had been facing but focused on their race to the unmatched legacy of winning a World Cup Trophy. The final was the best which could happen in an ICC tournament. It was not a cricket match a display of every emotion one can imagine in a game of cricket. India set a target of 177 and defend for India seemed easy until Klaseen smashed 24 runs in the 15th over and his team needed just 30 of 30 balls. India's pace attack pulled off a blinder from that stage by first Bumrah giving an economical over and then Hardik took the wicket of Klaseen to shift the momentum of the game on his side. The hidden hero was Arshdeep Singh who also pulled of two brilliant overs at the right - one in the middle and the other in the death. Last over consisted of South Africa requiring 16 runs and Hardik had to defend them. The first ball was a full toss indicating the pressure Hardik had with respect to his last 6 months. Miller swung his bat so hard but could not get the middle and it was the sticker that touched his bat but it was enough to go to the boundary but not above it as Suryakumar Yadav caught the ball and fancied India's chances to get the silverware. 

Virat Kohli was in tears and Rohit Sharma lied down to celebrate their undermining hard work in the last decade and the last time in this format. The pair decided to announce their retirement from T20I's together after getting their hands on the silverware. Looking back to their world cup triumph I see a roller coaster ride filled with emotions of joy, happiness and satisfaction. The trophy weighing 12kg which they lifted had made 1.3 billion people happy back home which they expressed through lighting firecrackers and doing individual parades. India became the first cricket team to win a T20I world cup unbeaten displaying their want to get hands on the trophy badly and they gave everything for it. We also gave everything for it and got the result back paying the debt of our worshipping to the team from the last 17 freaking years.  

Ravi Shastri's lines were replaced by the ones - Long on, Long On and what a catch, Suryakumar takes it and Miller's gone !!!!!!!!





Monday, May 27, 2024

Thank you RCB !!!!!

 




Fumes of excitement started to pour in for RCB fans as soon as they heard of the first match in the Tata IPL 2024. It was between two giants RCB and CSK at Chepauk. RCB lost the game but what came next for the franchise had a bigger reason to be disappointed. They lost 6 games out of their next 7.  Everybody was dejected and disappointed even the players in the team and now they just went out to enjoy their game and cherish the remaining moments left with them in the tournament but who knew that this 1% chance of going to the playoffs became 100%. They won their next 6 games in a row keeping the net run rate and after winning a tremendous match against CSK, they marched into the playoffs. What followed next is a forgettable moment just like all the playoff matches RCB has played. But I am writing this to thank RCB for every it has given us to cherish in this IPL by making the best comeback every and Virat Kohli winning the Orange Cap. These are just some of them but everything they have given us this IPL. I am a RCB fan and they given me tears of sadness every year but there is something in this team that drives me to support them and follow them every year. I thank RCB for giving me those memories. This team has given its fans everything but just not an IPL TROPHY !!!!!!!

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

The Return of the King aka Virat Kohli

 

                             

Once upon a time, there lived a king who ruled over three kingdoms. The name of the three kingdoms were – ODI, T20I and TEST. There were also other people who were like him but he always dominated them. The king had won 70 wars and was very close to his 71st. After winning 70 wars, he went on a voyage. The motive of this voyage was to experiment new things and new modern ways of winning wars. He learnt them and practised them also but was not successful. When he came back from his voyage, he executed the new ways and techniques of war but could not dominate the wars. After 1,021 days got past and he could not dominate the wars, he also did not win them and he was not so confident now and, in that period, the other people who were their started to win wars and gained faith of people and The King’s following was low. Then he took a break and spent some time with his family and friends and after 1 month he returned with a bang!!!! He won his 71st war and he was back, the KING was back. This story is just a representation of Virat Kohli aka the King Kohli’s journey.

He smashed his 71st century against Afghanistan in one of India’s outings in the Asia Cup on 8th September, 2022. He made 122* of 61 balls and leading India to victory in that match.

 

 

 

Monday, January 3, 2022

Reviewing Black Widow

 



I have always written about cricket and always mentioned that I am die – hard cricket fan but I have not mentioned that I am also a die – hard marvel fan. In September, Black Widow was released and I thought let’s review the movie.

I would say that it was a very nice ending to Natasha Romanoff’s character but there were some disappointments also. Like, in the starting it was shown that Dreykov the main villain of the movie and daughter was dead in a bomb blast which was planted by Black Widow but in the end, we see that her daughter is alive and is the taskmaster. The biggest disappointment for me was that Taskmaster was dead in the end of the movie means he was not dead but now he won’t come back. Losing a very excellent villain like Taskmaster is bad. I was excited for this movie just because of Taskmaster and when I saw the movie in that Taskmaster was involved in just three major scenes. There was just one fight of Taskmaster vs Black Widow and that too a short one. So, I just wanted to say that Taskmaster, an excellent villain with amazing superpowers, which we thought was villain in the movie was just involved in three scenes and he cannot come back also. So, a nice movie and a nice ending to Natasha Romanoff’s character and in this movie Black Widow’s sister was also seen and it was a nice ending to the Natasha Romanoff’s character and it was a one-time watch movie and a good movie.