After many days of mauka mauka ads, following
World Cup closely, heart break of losing in the semi finals and finally the
World Cup coming to a close today, there are quite a few things that I
discovered.
My son is unknowingly growing a cricket fanatic as all of us Indians very fast. He prayed for Indian cricket team's victory in World Cup at a temple forgetting that his final exams are impending. He was absolutely upset, low and picked up fights at home when India lost the semi finals. He started talking numbers and names of who took whose wicket, and made how many runs without any additional efforts of remembering things!!
I could completely relate to the woman in the cricbuzz.com advertisement after my son managed to throw the snacks in dish in my hand all over the place while throwing an imaginary ball in his hand, and also managed to break my daughter's beads' bracelet in Domino's through another. It must surely have been quite a scene, all of us looking under the table for all the beads while my daughter was surely upset.
I rediscovered the joy of watching cricket and cheering up Indian team after a long break I guess. It was so much fun! First match India vs Pakistan provided the necessary steam as I was with my brother n parents and actually brought back my childhood memories of watching cricket together!
It's so much more fun to have the company of childhood friends while following cricket. While we are all far away now, constant messages on whatsapp did the trick, sharing all our thoughts and adding much more masala to the ongoing matches.
India has become so creative in thinking, all the mauka videos and innumerable viral jokes on whatsapp n Facebook can be presented as proof.
India has moved away from pelting stones on players' house, burning effigies n resorted to viral jokes now. The spoof on poor anushka was totally uncalled for, but seems she became an easy target for at least 100 viral jokes! Leaving that aside, In general, we heard more positive things even after the defeat than all attacks we hear all the time.
Sachin is so graceful in what he says, his tweets after India lost out to Aussies clearly show why everyone loves him so much n the young brigade in the team believes so much in him. It was awesome to hear the cheer at Melbourne every time his name was announced at the closing ceremony.
We probably have more self belief as Indians than ever before. The kind of talks people had, the advertisements showed up, overall mood in the country where cricket is treated as a religion and the show all fellow Indians put up in Australia supporting India was simply indicative of this.
Finally the young brigade that played this time has really earned a lot of respect and learnt lessons and confidence to carry forward in their careers. Thanks guys for giving us those wonderful moments of awesome performance and pride! Better luck next time!! And hats off to Saina for her awesome achievement of becoming World No. 1. So what if India's sons could not retain the title, India's daughter has made her proud :))
My son is unknowingly growing a cricket fanatic as all of us Indians very fast. He prayed for Indian cricket team's victory in World Cup at a temple forgetting that his final exams are impending. He was absolutely upset, low and picked up fights at home when India lost the semi finals. He started talking numbers and names of who took whose wicket, and made how many runs without any additional efforts of remembering things!!
I could completely relate to the woman in the cricbuzz.com advertisement after my son managed to throw the snacks in dish in my hand all over the place while throwing an imaginary ball in his hand, and also managed to break my daughter's beads' bracelet in Domino's through another. It must surely have been quite a scene, all of us looking under the table for all the beads while my daughter was surely upset.
I rediscovered the joy of watching cricket and cheering up Indian team after a long break I guess. It was so much fun! First match India vs Pakistan provided the necessary steam as I was with my brother n parents and actually brought back my childhood memories of watching cricket together!
It's so much more fun to have the company of childhood friends while following cricket. While we are all far away now, constant messages on whatsapp did the trick, sharing all our thoughts and adding much more masala to the ongoing matches.
India has become so creative in thinking, all the mauka videos and innumerable viral jokes on whatsapp n Facebook can be presented as proof.
India has moved away from pelting stones on players' house, burning effigies n resorted to viral jokes now. The spoof on poor anushka was totally uncalled for, but seems she became an easy target for at least 100 viral jokes! Leaving that aside, In general, we heard more positive things even after the defeat than all attacks we hear all the time.
Sachin is so graceful in what he says, his tweets after India lost out to Aussies clearly show why everyone loves him so much n the young brigade in the team believes so much in him. It was awesome to hear the cheer at Melbourne every time his name was announced at the closing ceremony.
We probably have more self belief as Indians than ever before. The kind of talks people had, the advertisements showed up, overall mood in the country where cricket is treated as a religion and the show all fellow Indians put up in Australia supporting India was simply indicative of this.
Finally the young brigade that played this time has really earned a lot of respect and learnt lessons and confidence to carry forward in their careers. Thanks guys for giving us those wonderful moments of awesome performance and pride! Better luck next time!! And hats off to Saina for her awesome achievement of becoming World No. 1. So what if India's sons could not retain the title, India's daughter has made her proud :))
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