IPL 2010 Final - So called Technical Analysis

35 balls 70 runs… it was possible. When Sachin gifted a sitter to Vijay at long off, it did not seem possible for Mumbai anymore, the crowd knew it. Chennai had moved the game to their favor by a big margin. Some similarity that seems like a coincidence or a curse: Sachin is left to fight the demons single handedly yet another time, despite putting a great effort, his team losses and a new comer named Jakati picks up his wicket like Angelo Mathews , Sohail Tanveer or Umar Gul did as new comers in the past. Tiwary paid attention to every word that Sachin had to say as he walked in, then just before the second delivery the beep of 15 minutes played in the back of his mind(or it at least seemed so) and like Ghajini Aamir/Suriya, he forgot all that was said and gave Raina(of all people) a tough catch practice. Raina does not drop any even in the middle of the night, thank God he is not Newton, he would have caught the apple before it hit his head and we would still be wondering why the cricket ball that’s hit towards the sky comes back down. Calit Mod-e would have tweeted on what percentage of share each factor holds for the cricket ball to come back to the earth and the sweet equity disclosure would have led to the firing of Vashi Farhoor from Nasa on account of diabetes that resulted from the sweetness which he ignored to record in his findings. Duminy, Rayadu, Tiwary, Nayar were all batmen (it’s not a spelling mistake) gone wrong, the bat did not do the talking and they could not save their Gotham City, Mumbai.

Fernando was kind, Abhishek was compassionate and no… this is not a love story…both waited for each other, you dont trust me do you, ITS NOT A LOVE STORY and the ball waited for none. Raina’s drop was like the US capturing Osama and releasing him on ID 4 on account of good conduct. Zaheer I guess is a man of fire, no he’s not a smoker who carries a lighter everywhere. He said if you folks drop when I bowl, I’ll drop when you bowl too. He went begging to the ground with the ball refusing to oblige to his plea, how cruel cricket is at times, it stripped him off his…. Okay let’s say “tough man image”, to be decent. And made the second standard kid who caught the chalk his teacher threw at him proud.

28 from 8 looked possible against any team other than Chennai, before Pollard got out it seemed possible against any team. But after that, if only Sukesh Imbani’s cell phone did not show network busy….. He would have called Dhoni and offered a fair deal (Mr.Money Rathnam could have made a block buster based on the life of a young cricketer who says, Baapu kehtha tha… cricket muth khelo, laykin mainay khela ek khel…). I guess Imbani is going to sue his younger brother on account of continuous abuse from the customer care, whose answers resemble an IVR, press 1 to hangup or 0 to get frustrated. And for not reactivating his account despite making his payments three times for the same bill to make sure they did not deactivate his services. In the mean time Oneal Imbani in his recent press release says that it was not personal vendetta and he was trying to reach his elder brother to let him know that he better take his puppy along with him and see if at least that network followed him inside the packed stadium .

The last ball of the 19th over saw extreme reactions from both the captains. Dhoni in the middle of all the action smiled and pointed his finger towards the sky as if he knew the answer to the question that his Head Master Sachin had asked. As Hayden took a stunning catch to dismiss Pollard, Sachin sat biting his nails inside one of the rooms (and not in the dugout) in anticipation of his name being called on the list of students who failed to clear the annual examinations at The IPL this year.

Why does Vijay play as if he was a statue waist down, why does raina get two chances and Sachin not get even one, Malinga’s bowling lacked the color, he should have dyed his hair… especially his yorker looked plain for the batsmen. . . go on find a million reasons. Chennai Super Kings WIN and that’s all that matters!