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December 11, 2005
Posted by Zainub Razvi on 12/11/2005 in Live commentary
It’s the mid innings break in the first One-Day International, – I think these should be renamed Damage Limitation Internationals or DLIs given the state of most one-day pitches now-a-days. Anyway, it’s Pakistan and England against each other, and I’m lurking around in my Inbox. We had conceded something of a mountain to chase, but I knew from before hand that we’ll lose, some times you just know.
Not a matter of not having enough faith in the team, but sometimes you just know, probably something in the stars (when half of the team is having a bad hair week (month?), something has got to give at some point!). So I thought I might as well use this time to indulge in some good old fashioned commentary nit-picking.
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Posted by Jai Arjun Singh on 12/11/2005 in Live commentary
It could have been one of the greatest days of my life and I went AWOL. At the precise moment (16:44:19, as has been meticulously noted by some newspapers) that Sachin was deftly playing Chaminda Vaas to the onside for his hundredth run, I was driving around central Delhi, just 6 km from the Kotla Stadium, listening to radio commentary - instead of being at the ground - and muttering “YOU IDIOT, YOU IDIOT, YOU IDIOT!” to myself.
But on this admittedly minor scale, it was quite an experience being in Delhi traffic at this momentous hour and noting that other people in other cars were listening to their radios as intently as I was: fiddling with knobs, pulling at antennae, the passengers at the back leaning forward.
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