It was always in my Bucket List to sit in the stadium and watch the cricket match. I come from the town where a stadium is their but its not in the condition to conduct any matches. Kenya v Zimbabwe at Patna, Wills World Cup 16th match, Feb 27, 1996 Patna witnessed its last international ODI match. And after that there was no match held at Patna.
For engineering, I was at Bangalore, i got a few chances to go and view the match but i didn’t encash those chances. It came and went away.
Finally Accenture brought me to Hyderabad, and India was one of the organizing country of the world cup. But for my bad luck, Hyderabad was not the authorized to conduct any matches.
Then their come IPL after the world cup, my hopes was on bloom again.
I was looking for the matches in Hyderabad. Since i was the supporter of DC since 2nd IPL so thought will go and support my team.
24th April, Sachin's birthday and Mumbai Indians playing in Hyderabad, It can't be the best time to see the match. but my bad luck all the tickets were sold out and the online booking was not happening due to the server issue.
Then the boxing day match for me on 3rd of May, My two fav teams playing each other KKR vs Dc. My alliance was in question whom to support, I thought will go with the wining team and will shout for both the team ;)
For the tickets I have to run twice to the mall, but at last I got the tickets for the IPL.
3rd May, 2011
We were soo excited about the match, not exactly to go and see the IPL match in the stadium. One of my friend didn’t go to the office saying he is sick. I took half day off saying i am having headache and stomach upset.
and guess what after 1 week of my birthday my team decided to celebrate my birthday but that party was smaller than the party which i was supposed to attend.
We took an auto to the Uppal stadium. It was one of the hottest day in Hyderabad. But still we were determined to watch the match and enjoy each and every moment of it. On the way to the stadium, we stopped at a bakery shop to buy some cold drinks. The owner of the shop saw the tickets in my pocket, asked isn’t it too early to go to the stadium. It was actually too early, It was 5 and we were about to reach the stadium, and match was supposed to start from 8. But 2 most enthusiastic people went and sooo determined that we reached soo early.
After entering the stadium, the feeling you get it is amazing.. AWSOME also can’t explain the feeling at that time.
The ground curator was working on the pitch, the players was inspecting the pitches and then the warm up session.
Gambhir and Sanghkara came to the ground for the toss.
Deccan was supposed to field now, as Sanghkara decided to field 1st after winning the toss. Kallis along wid Morgan came to bat. 1st over by christian and Morgan hit him badly. A six, we thought it will come to us but it went to other side. The ball got deflected and took some angle :P :P
Then Next over of christian he took morgan, a great piece of bowling. I thought KKR in tension. Gambhir came and start hitting.. It was amazing seeing the Delhi Lad hitting sixes, whom I have only seen on TV.. Gambhir was out... Then Yusuf Pathan came who haven't performed with bat till now in this IPL. But wat was I thinking, he played a silly shot and a easy catch :( :( but it was dropped.. I was soo enthusiastic :) and the next ball it went all away to Six :) :)
Kallis was out now Bhatia came to play. He was trying to hit but he was not able to hit.
A hyderabadi guy commented 'He need to eat Biryani, maachi Aur aloo se Kuch nahi hone wala. Yeh bengali sab cheez main aloo daalte hain. Isko Biryani khelaoo.' Rohit who was sitting next to me poked me and asked me to be quite.. But then I realised that guy was correct. Mutton-Aloo is my favourite dish ;) :) Hehehe..
Sorry deviating from the main topic...
Next two overs 2 catches was again dropped and guess whose catch did Deccan dropped it was YUSUF PATHAN.. The guy got 3 life and was now determined to play his inning in IPL-4 and he hit a brilliant 48, his half century was shy by 2 runs.
176 was a decent score for 1st inning. Easy defensible.. But u can't say anything about the KKR wen they will lose.
1st over by Brett Lee amazing piece of bowling, but next over by abdulla, overthrow and score was decent, now next over of abdulla showed Y he is the most appropriate contender for Indian team he put DC in miserable position.. In back to back 2 balls he took sunny and Sanghkara. KKR supporters were cheering as V knew the victory is now inforntof Us..
Now DC was on backfoot and was playing very calmly. More Important Shikhar Dhwan was playing his inning from DC.. But after the strategic time out now Bhatia took 2 wickets in an over. DC was in big trouble. Naa... Big Trouble..
But wen I check the score it was fine... KKR was also in similar position but they had wicket in their hand.
But KKR has come to hyderabad to win or You can the jinx about the Uppal Stadium was yet entact.
And that's what happened.. DC lost the game..
We were soo happy.. The reason Y I bought the ticket and KKR jersey was completed.. I saw Pathan, Gambhir hitting sixes and Abdullah taking wicket. But I didn't know something was still left. Sharukh take victory lap after every win... And I saw him from soo near. It was sooo Awsom :) :) it was cherry in the cake. I just loved it..
Now Next is F1 race.. Indian Prix happening in oct.. Just waiting for it :) :)..
