Okay. Time to confess. I’ve always heard that India is a cricket crazy nation, never seen how and why? It took me 20 long years to figure out the intensity that prevails among the locale.

It was India Vs Aus quarter final clash. Two bulls fighting!(in spanish) It’s a Man U vs Chelsea(football guys). Who would want to miss the match? I wanted. Not by choice but by force. Finished my job, not wasting a milli- sec started my journey to my house! It is during the en-route I figured out the passion, intensity, craze of cricket in Hyderabad if not India.

Instance 1 :I saw a guy carrying a mammoth(when compared to todays radios) transistor radio(Kapil dev times) turning on the full volume.. Hindi commentary! man everyone in the bus, I dun know how many of them understand Hindi, looking at their faces they seem to understand. And m glad that the radio man was away from the driver!”Ye doorsa ball daalaa…off stump ke uuparr…aur ye maaraa…choouuka!” maaan..awesome no harsha bhogle no sidhu can come near to the age-old super cool hindi commentary#rush of blood.

Instance 2: I saw a couple..near a cafe as usually doing their job. Suddenly the guy distanced himself  from the girl*I was watching them with my eye-ball struck toward the corner of my eyes* and the guy shouted..WICKET! he was actually listening to the radio! maan..i had a chuckle.

Instance 3 : Walking down the lane. Filled with people, all busy guys grasping  in the hot snoring sun. Suddenly, street was almost had an empty kinda look. I raised my head. There was a pan shop with a small tv..a 10 inch tv? with around 25-30 ppl around it. Guys in the front were standing from a long tym(figured out by common sense)..all the busy guys who can’t afford to stand(to which they are not used to) were taking  a quick glimpse of the score..overs..people batting and bowling..thats all they need. In addition to this..a little advice to Mr Dhoni!

Instance 4 : I joined my friends in “cafe latte” to watch the match.  Every dot ball is cheered. When a wicket fell, i was remained of early man age. Jumping for the first time when he saw fire or food. Just no limits. Limit less fun..pure fun! Felt the excitement in air! Fun among the people. It was awesome. Awesome to have that feel!

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