DJ Sahastra
February 22, 2006, 10:54 AM
It is never easy being BD Cricket fan. It can make you a heart-patient.
This team plays 10 matches without even as much as giving a hint that it can play cricket. And just when the fans are starting to despair, comes back with a bang and upsets the applecart. It doesn't matter whose applecart is it, on that day.
I stayed up until 3:00 am watching the match on bangladeshlive and enjoying it with BD fans on this forum. It often surprises me to even recall when was the last time i stayed up so late to watch an India game. And no - i am not about to change my passport anytime soon. It is just that i wanted this team to win - desperately win - win damn it. And till i decided to go to bed, they had done enough to raise hopes. And also to dent some!
BD fans are the most passionate supporters of their team. If there is one thing i have started to hate and fear most (besides the lizard on my hostel wall a few years back), it is coming on this forum and seeing that sad and resigned look on the faces of BD fans everytime BD loses a match. It is not difficult to see that experssion at other times too - say at the fall of Ashraful's wicket for example.
When i woke up this morning, i just hoped i won't see a headline like "Bangladesh lose again". They just didn't deserve that. Atleast not by the way that they had played until i had decided to go to bed. And boy they amazed me - the only thing i could think of in that moment is the famous "BD pants on fire" icon - more like thousands of fans with their "pants on fire" all across Bangladesh. And no better day to be around here on this forum than the day that BD wins.
This was a hard-earned win - no flash in the pan and not attributed to any particular individual. While bowling, Rasel started it, Kapali gave it the boost, Aftab sustained it, and Rafique & Mashrafe gave the decisive push. While batting, the openers played the most interesting style that i'll see - "You beat me, i hit you for four and then you beat me again". It is as if it was a staged drama. And it seemed well staged until two quick wickets soon after raised the memories of many of the earlier losses. I didn't follow after that but i read the analysis and it seems that while Ashraful's knock was the key component, the decisive partnership between Aftab and kapali sealed the match. Bangladesh have just lost Ashraful and are 5-wickets down and need more than 50 to win at almost run a ball - any other day it may sound like there was only one outcome. Thankfully, no one told Aftab and Alok about it.
A historic win it is and a fully deserved one too. And at just the right time.
Pagla Baba's blessings arrived late, but not too late.
Edited on, February 22, 2006, 7:01 PM GMT, by DJ Sahastra.
This team plays 10 matches without even as much as giving a hint that it can play cricket. And just when the fans are starting to despair, comes back with a bang and upsets the applecart. It doesn't matter whose applecart is it, on that day.
I stayed up until 3:00 am watching the match on bangladeshlive and enjoying it with BD fans on this forum. It often surprises me to even recall when was the last time i stayed up so late to watch an India game. And no - i am not about to change my passport anytime soon. It is just that i wanted this team to win - desperately win - win damn it. And till i decided to go to bed, they had done enough to raise hopes. And also to dent some!
BD fans are the most passionate supporters of their team. If there is one thing i have started to hate and fear most (besides the lizard on my hostel wall a few years back), it is coming on this forum and seeing that sad and resigned look on the faces of BD fans everytime BD loses a match. It is not difficult to see that experssion at other times too - say at the fall of Ashraful's wicket for example.
When i woke up this morning, i just hoped i won't see a headline like "Bangladesh lose again". They just didn't deserve that. Atleast not by the way that they had played until i had decided to go to bed. And boy they amazed me - the only thing i could think of in that moment is the famous "BD pants on fire" icon - more like thousands of fans with their "pants on fire" all across Bangladesh. And no better day to be around here on this forum than the day that BD wins.
This was a hard-earned win - no flash in the pan and not attributed to any particular individual. While bowling, Rasel started it, Kapali gave it the boost, Aftab sustained it, and Rafique & Mashrafe gave the decisive push. While batting, the openers played the most interesting style that i'll see - "You beat me, i hit you for four and then you beat me again". It is as if it was a staged drama. And it seemed well staged until two quick wickets soon after raised the memories of many of the earlier losses. I didn't follow after that but i read the analysis and it seems that while Ashraful's knock was the key component, the decisive partnership between Aftab and kapali sealed the match. Bangladesh have just lost Ashraful and are 5-wickets down and need more than 50 to win at almost run a ball - any other day it may sound like there was only one outcome. Thankfully, no one told Aftab and Alok about it.
A historic win it is and a fully deserved one too. And at just the right time.
Pagla Baba's blessings arrived late, but not too late.
Edited on, February 22, 2006, 7:01 PM GMT, by DJ Sahastra.