My fingers flew over the buttons of the remote around 8 p.m. last night and I glimpsed Chennai Super Kings take on the Deccan Chargers. Watched a few overs, saw the ball being hit all over the field and a slight boredom set on me, so my fingers found the remote and transferred my attentions onto Hallmark.
Around 9.45 I took a chance again with IPL to see what the score was… My mouth opened when I saw Deccan Chargers at 1 for 2 wickets!! My mouth further opened and a yell went out when immediately the 3rd wicket of Laxman went!! What was going on??? Are they playing International cricket?? Or some galli cricket???
And then started the Comedy of Errors… and it all came in pairs as if all players were enacting the 2-by-2 on Noah’s Arc! The first error was hilarious… 3 fielders running catch the ball in order to take the 4th wicket and all 3 leaving it so that the ball fell plum – right in the middle of the triangle!! Heehehe and I thought only the Indian team could make such bloopers!! What followed next was no less, when the fielder got the ball, but it decided to jump right out of his hands, kiss his jaw and fall to the ground!
This match was getting exciting and my mum and I sat down determined to watch it till the end. For the next few overs we were treated to some awesome batting with 6’s and 4’s being fit effortlessly by Dwayne over the boundary line.
The next weird, comic situation took place when Dwayne was to be run out, but the ball hit the stumps and went onto an overthrow, after which to make him out one of the stumps had to be removed… dunno if I have explained this well – but the cricketers out there would hopefully understand!! I managed to get a bit of the clip on my phone!! Check it out!! I could not stop laughing at the drama being played out on the field and the commentators were astounded as well!! This was really entertaining!! :)
Btw, Deccan Chargers had to reach a huge total of 178 runs and they were failing miserably!! Chennai Super Kings improved their fielding by taking wickets periodically but at 90 for 6 showed their weirdness again – 2 catches were dropped, one by Raina and the other by Badrinath… DC were then 99 for 9 and like a true Hindi movie climax they were all out for a ton (100)!!
A great match and awesome entertainment for a Monday night!! :)