The day "10/10/10" is special to me not bcoz the number '10' repeated thrice in a calendar but its spl bcoz one of my wish i.e watching sachin's batting live as a spectator came true.
I started my day '10/10/10' at 6'O clock which is unusal for me bcoz since months my day starts at 12 or 2 in the afternoon.Thanks to the pressure i m living with.
We reached the stadium at 8'O clock and entered along with a bunch of 10 guys.The stadium looked like a different world altogether.The climate was a little bit murky.I was making a debut as a Test match spectator.
The lush green field in the stadium is like a feast to the eyes and stands are filled with different Colours based on their stands and the atmosphere is calm while the indian and aussie players are warming up.The sunlight on the thick green field looked like God throwing some light on the cricket field up from the sky.
I can see cleary why the aussies are fit enuff as they stress themselves out there more on the fitness.The whole aussie team had a jogg around the boundary line as the people waved at them and aussies responded well to ur gestures.To be honest they seemes to be fit enuff than our indian players, thanks to their genes and their Physio.We spotted the under 15 Banglore team bowling to the aussie tail enders at the nets and that too with the bowling actions of Bhajji and Ojha, kudos to the good talent they got at that age.The indain flags are all over the stadium.The tricolours are everywhere ryt from a small flag on the players helmet to the huge flag in the stadium.Even our Sachin and sehwag practiced well to the throws of litlle kids.They looked like they are concentrating on timing and drives and foot work, thanks to the cricket knowledge i got.
Finally the match started at the scheduled time and the batsmen took their guards as we settled in our seats at stands behind covers .The one thing we wont get to watch on Televisions is that the bowlers bowl a trail ball to the batsman at both ends to check their line and length.
The atmosphere is live and energetic in the stadium for an hour.All of a sudden the atmosphere is dull and calm as indian bowlers failed to get a break thru.To be Honest the bowling was not good and sreesanth in particular is struggling with his line and length.The first exciting moment came when Ojha bowled a legbreak drawing the batsman forward and to ur surprise Raina drops a catch.Thats almost like a crime in cricket.Dropping catches costs u matches.Ojha bowled well making the batsman to be in two minds at times.Every time he is back with a good over,the crowd is responded with a applause.There are some people in the crowd came like a big bunch doing some hungama encouraging the crowd,thanks to sunday.The crowd armed with noisy puppets and whistles and most of the faces filled with tricolours.The good thing is that the female fans also got their faces painted in tricolours irrespective of their class and their stature.
We reached lunch time with discontent faces and had lunch. we lunch available is good enuff at reasonable costs and mineral water is provided for all,cant stop praising the stadium management.
Atlast our bowlers found the break thru after lunch as Ojha bailed out india with a wicket.Thats when a big cheer came up from the crowd, all the indian hearts & faces in the crowd lit up like a bright light.From then on our spinners did the job for india.By the way the run-out was really awesome to watch.The fielder at deep backward dislodged the bails in flash with an accurate throw.Finally aussie innigs got an end.The good thing from our crowd is they cheered up for North when he got a century.
So finally when our indian innings is about to start,the crowd is excited all of a sudden with thousands of watts of sounds as all the heads from crowd is turned to indian dressing room.The indian players entered the field amidst huge encouragement from the crowd.It really tooked some time for our batsman to wait to take the guard as the noise such the match got paused for 5 mins.Wat an awesome cheer up, Indian players is getting.Most of the crowd got excited to sehwag, to be frank.
To be Honest , this this is the first time as an Indian i wished India to be two down soon so that i can see the SACHIN's Batting.Indian innings started. The dot balls from murali made the crowd to drag down thier adrenaline levels.As sehwag took the strike, the first ball he faced was put to fence in a flash, kudos to the agression of sehwag.Sehwag waggs his bat like a nanchak in the hands of Jakie chan.ahahah.The Mexican wave we performed along with the crowd is an awesome experience.
The aussie bowlers started thier weapon of bouncers and raising deliveries on sehwag but sehwag responded well to them.The crowd was so protective to thier indian players that each time a bouncer is bowled to sehwag , the crowed booooed the bolwer with loud sound.Suddenly sehwag was in a mood to finish off his 50 AsAP with agressive shots to covers and mid-on and mid-off before falling to Hilfenaus to a pull shot,aussie homework worked.
Here comes the banglore boy DRAVID, he got a good welcome but couldnt lasts long as he soon got departed to wonderful swing bowling from johnson.
Finally and Finally..Finallyyy.... here is the moment where my wish came true and my heart got lit with thousands of petramax lights and fireflies , the glow in my face is unbelievable even for me as i lost it somewhere for many years.The GOD OF CRICKET is coming to bat and thanks to the GOD up in the heaven as he made my wish true.Finally sachin made his step over the rope and the crowd literally gone mad for him. He took some dots balls to settle down and played some smooth and perfect drives to covers.Soon he reached to a score of 27,reaching the milestone of 14000 in Tests.The crowd is loud enuff that even a 1000 watt sound is not audible in that huge noise.My ears are unable to take that much sound and there is a vibration below our chairs due to the noise and sound waves generated.The atmosphere is literally electric.I m lucky enuff since my childhood that i got to see all the big stars movie on the first day,thanks to my buddies father to the tickets he gets for us and the atmospehre in chiranjeevi,pawan kalyan and Rajinikanth movies is very noisy.But the atmosphere and noise when SACHIN is batting is like a life time experience and exponential to wat even a international celeb wud get.The crowd including women,girls, kids and even the senior citizens literally stood up to cheer for him.Wat a luck this little man got to get such a rare reception from the crowd no matter the country he plays in.I can see some old people blowing whistles and puppets like kids to cheer sachin, they even are taking support of their neighbours to stand up on thier old legs to cheer for sachin.That's wat sachin is all about. He made the Old people feel like kids.WHAT A HUMAN he issss....Now the atmosphere reached a situation where the match got paused for 10 mins.For a Test match, what a reception he gets from the crowd.The Old people became kids, the kids are struggling to blow air to whistles& puppets and other peculiar sound instruments.He got a standing Ovation from each and every spectator.What a Cricketer he is..,What a Human he is..,what a respect he gets from the crowd , from the opponent players, from the media, from seniors in the cricket,from the stadium staff, from the ball boys around the boundary, from the security staff, from the cleaning staff and who not every human being around him with flesh and heart including a disabled boy at the long-off behind the boundary line who cant stand with legs tried to stand with the help of a advertisement board.I literally got into tears when i sighted that.I can challenge that no one can show me a dictionary and convince me with a superalative word that wud be apt to SACHIN.The moment he reached the milestone he removed his helmet and looked into the sky.The shots he played are attractive, technical and with perfectness and smooth.He also got one more landmark of scoring most test runs in Banglore.I m lucky enuff to witness both of them in one day and that i got a rare chance of acess to most of the stands in the stadium excluding the media stand and VVIP stand,thanks to the police man who helped me to move freely in the stadium.I finally bowed to sachin with a chair raised in my hands.I fullfilled my dream of bowing to sachin.I screamed untill my vocal chords almost got cracked when he reached the milestone.The aura he brings when he is in the stadium is the thing only possible to him.I too learnt more knowledge on how to set the cricket field and some more technical aspects.
The moments i got excited:
1. When sachin came into the batting.
2. when north played a shot to boundary at long-on which is the place near to sachin,a disabled boy is behind the boundary line where sachin waited for the boy to throw the ball at him even thou it took some time for the boy.He made him throw the ball bcoz he knew that boy can do that and gets some confidence and happi filled to his heart.How he dealt with the boy was reseblance to the clean brain and heart he got.
3.sachin reaching the milestones of 14000 in test and most test runs by a batsman in banglore.
4. The old people taking the assistance of people sitting besides them to stand on their own legs to give a standing ovation to sachin.
Back to my room with life time experience and sweet memories.Had a sound sleep after somany years and that too at around 11:30,ahaha which is a rare thing to me.
I m proud to be a part of such historic moments in cricket as many of the records happened on this day.
P A W A N
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