10th october 9:40 pm: Had dinner, ready to sleep as the next day was one of the most important days of my life.
10th october 11:30 pm: was still playing fifa'08 on my laptop...
10th october 2:20 pm: still playing fifa'08 ( lost 6 straight matches to bolton, and wanted to take revenge,,, kya karooo ... i am addicted to this game).. AT 2:30 finally beat bolton, and slept.
11th october 6:00 am : Woke up... i mean, hardly woke up to switch the alarm off... err... infact just snoozed it...
6:30 am : Dilip woke me up( FACT 1: Dilip, my roomie... a big fan of sachin and cricket... didnt sleep the whole night unable to contain his excitement) ... made me realise how important that day was....
7:30 am: had breakfast, started for the stadium at 8:00 am
8:30 am: venue : chinnaswamy stadium, bangalore. people were ecstatic, all kinds of people in a frenzy, everybody wants to get in the stadium as soon as possible, ( FACT 2: it rained in the last session on the last day and the play was supposed to start earlier today)
9:10 pm: finally entered the stadium... the very first sight of the stadium introduced sachin ramesh tendulkar in flesh to my eyes... was it a scintillating sight??? i bet my life it is.
Looks like you people are getting bored reading my diary with the most minutest details of the day... so i will cut it short..
The stadium was awesome, the crowd even better...( i think you got my point :P)... My day at the stadium started with the sight of sachin and saurav playing in the nets. India started of the day with 68 for no loss... and it started off the day very bad. Lost wickets in quick session. FACT 3: Actually to say the truth... we were equally culpable for india's bad performance...
It was the saga of the placards. We wanted to be famous by getting caught on the camera showing placards saying Thank you neo sports and blah blah.... !!!
But instead we thought of two very interesting quotes. The first one was after gambhir got out and dravid was on the field. We thought of writing " Don't break the wall, god (sachin) is behind it". Unfortunately sehwag got out before we even wrote the half of it. So we had to customise the quote as " Don't break the wall, prince is behind it" ( What customization, why don't i think like this in my mock cats :P)....
So there was sachin and dravid on the field.... we tried very hard to get captured ... but unfortunately we didnt get caught. So, we tried something else.... write a quote about sachin.. a very good one...
Saying .. " There is sachin, there is daylight and then there is the rest". As far as my memory goes, Tony grieg said this in one of the test matches against australia. It was a good quote ,.. u know... to get caught on camera... Again thunder struck on us... sachin got out... phew... i lost interest in the match...
So .. i slept to compensate for the last day's sleep... i mean i tried to sleep... amidst the loud crowd. Woke up just before lunch... when ganguly and dravid were trying to just get set in the game. The game after the tea was very interesting. ganguly got out , so did dravid. and it was harbhajan singh and Zaheer khan on the crease. they were taking it on the aussie bowlers and they were helpless... unconventional shots and some very good drives... brought the half century of harbhajan singh,,, and the very next moment we were on tv.... the crowd went bizarre... we were doing mexican waves... every next minute... and it was never so lively in the first two sessions...
After tea was amazing... and it rained afterwards and so match had to end soon... due to bad light.
That's the day from my perspective... much more to write abt the day.. but... no patience... :P
