Late night of 19.04.2011- i had completely forgot that a match awaits-no tickets ,no planning,friend frantically trying to get through while i was on a long call .Finally we talked n i was threatened again and i said ok il be there dont know how which train but il be there for your 4pm match.
20.04.2011- 7am "im too late for the 7:15 train" sleep..8am " shit man even 8:30 gone,il surely get the 9:45am " next i wake up at 9:10 "fuk fuk fuk...m not making it today "i call him and before i say a word there's this barrage of new innovative highly skilled guy abusing the living life out of me!! scared i log on to indianrailways.gov.in i bless my lord there was a train at 10:45 which will let me reach the stadium just in time .i finally did catch that train and i reached Wankhade at 3:45pm.The atmosphere right from the churchgate was Electric and blue ...i was here as a PUNE warrior supporter ,Sachin has the right to toy with anything he wants so besides him all was BLACK for the PW for me.
Gate No.4 Sachin Tendulkar stand - Thats where we had our tickets booked .My dear gentle friend arrived half an hour late and by the time i sat PW were 34-4 !! what a sad start ..but there he was god with his Orange cap on marching his troops ..1st ball - you look around the stadium its a sea of blue with the chants M-A-L-I-N-G-A in the background as this weird hairdo guy with a deadly yorker fired one right in to Uthapa,safely played down dead to the pitch.
Match it self wasnt a scorcher went on in a slow pace slow even by T20 standards .Chasing down 119 as a target did not even excite The craftsman but he sure didn't disappoint as there were a few glorious on drives few pulls a nice cover drive and the he holed out in the deep trying to clear the field. Content i had seen HIM bat the match was over for me .
I had this wild idea while talking to my cousin and iam actually thinking of doing it save enough for 2015 World cup and team travel ..what say ppl !!