What it Means...

For a good build up of a World Cup Final?

India meets Sri Lanka. The Royal Bengal Tigers meet the Singhaleese Lions. Its a battle, all gonna remember coz many things are at stake. But before talking more about it, its time to recapitulate of the week gone by, where everything started to stare at India's way...

24/03/11. The D/N... a full house to view the India Australia match, when I was running to catch the train. It was fun time, a vacation, a departmental retreat as one would like to place it forward. Boarded in the clean Darjeeling Mail, Mayukh Da luckily found a plug point. He pressed in the button and his Tata Photon Plus put forward a great service, backed up by live scores in my Airtel Mobile Internet. In a span of two overs, with India chasing, 13 of the lads in the strong contingent of 41 people cooped in the coupe of S2 Bogey. It was a sumptous entertainment and clap by the fellow passenger, when Yuvraj Singh hit a boundary to secure the Indian Win and meet horns against the arch rivals Pakistan.

A snap shot of the occasion thanks to Pinaki Da's collection.

Courtesy: Pinaki Da, IICB.

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Meet the horns... pains and emotions run high and throats become dry when they meet. The Blue meets the Green, Mohali, 30/3/11. The center stage, a battle for the Final Berth. With Srilanka already into the finals, a day ago, 30/03/11 was more than explicable. I remember a similar situation  in 2003, but more precisely when I was in standard 6. That year too, the CWC 96, Pakistan were beaten comprehensively in Bangalore, in the Quarters. They met Sri Lanka in the Semis at Eden Gardens, but thats a different story though!

After India won against their arch Rivals, I commented on FB: The answer of 26/11. Given the Right Way! People had many things to say...keeping cricket noble, but I would like to point them:

1) Organized fights were part of showing might and proving a diplomatic point all over the world... and Cricket is the modern version of that...any sport as a matter of fact is.

2) Here, our Ambassadors are the Gladiators... They fought for the nation...

and fought for a nation who have sponsored terrorism against India. 1967 War, 1971 War, 1993 Bombay, 1999 Kargil, 2008 Mumbai... they have LETs and Mujahhidins as well...

Next...

Its Ramayan on Saturday, 2/04/11...