Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham !
Last 10 overs - 40 runs to win and 5 wickets in hand !! NWCL Regular seasons champions and without a doubt the best team in the NWCL league - 'Microsoft Blues' looked like they were set for yet another victory (which they had gotten so used to by this time) to clinch the NWCL season championship by winning this all microsoft finals !! But destiny had something else in mind !! As Siddhu would describe it - Blues team fell like a bicycle stand, you push one and all the others fall down ! Just 151 required in 42 overs ... looked like a very easy task especially after scoring at 9 runs an over for the first 8 overs ...
But it was a disaster really ... four run outs, a few misjudgements by the umpire (bad LBW decision, docking 3 overs etc) and well it was clear - luck wasnt favouring them either ... so ultimately MS Blues (My team) lost the finals by 18 runs !! 'Microsoft Greens' became the NWCL 2006 season champions and Blues had to be satisfied with the runner-up position ... I had taken a break and wasnt playing for Blues last few weeks but it hurt !! especially just watching the game standing outside the field hurt really bad ... such a helpless situation !! The team which deserved it and lost just 2 games (those losses by the way were returned to respective teams with compound interest thru' convicing victories in the next games) in the whole season !! A great great season and only when it mattered - we couldnt convert it ... It was a pretty sad moment for all of us ...
Its funny but any game - espcially finals you see all types of mixed emotions - one team at the top of the world celebrating and jumping with joy whereas the other deep down, hiding their tears, heads down ... one team has tears of joy and the other team can not believe they lost !!
Anyway, we all put our loss behind us (so to say) and enjoyed the end of a great 2006 NWCL cricket season ... another thing was that the championship had come back to Microsoft ... may it be any team (MS has 3 teams by the way - Blues, Greens and Reds) ! So we gathered at one of our teammate's house - went back in time to cherish a few memories, played pool, celebrated our captains birthday ! It was all great fun !!
At the end of the day, you know what it feels like, its like a thorn in your body ! if you look from outside everything is fine ! you are enjoying and happy that the trophy remained with Microsoft but then it still hurts you from within and only you know the pain and how badly it hurts !
Ending this post with the hope that next 2007 season, I will have a post to write with a title 'Khushi hi Khushi' ...
But it was a disaster really ... four run outs, a few misjudgements by the umpire (bad LBW decision, docking 3 overs etc) and well it was clear - luck wasnt favouring them either ... so ultimately MS Blues (My team) lost the finals by 18 runs !! 'Microsoft Greens' became the NWCL 2006 season champions and Blues had to be satisfied with the runner-up position ... I had taken a break and wasnt playing for Blues last few weeks but it hurt !! especially just watching the game standing outside the field hurt really bad ... such a helpless situation !! The team which deserved it and lost just 2 games (those losses by the way were returned to respective teams with compound interest thru' convicing victories in the next games) in the whole season !! A great great season and only when it mattered - we couldnt convert it ... It was a pretty sad moment for all of us ...
Its funny but any game - espcially finals you see all types of mixed emotions - one team at the top of the world celebrating and jumping with joy whereas the other deep down, hiding their tears, heads down ... one team has tears of joy and the other team can not believe they lost !!
Anyway, we all put our loss behind us (so to say) and enjoyed the end of a great 2006 NWCL cricket season ... another thing was that the championship had come back to Microsoft ... may it be any team (MS has 3 teams by the way - Blues, Greens and Reds) ! So we gathered at one of our teammate's house - went back in time to cherish a few memories, played pool, celebrated our captains birthday ! It was all great fun !!
At the end of the day, you know what it feels like, its like a thorn in your body ! if you look from outside everything is fine ! you are enjoying and happy that the trophy remained with Microsoft but then it still hurts you from within and only you know the pain and how badly it hurts !
Ending this post with the hope that next 2007 season, I will have a post to write with a title 'Khushi hi Khushi' ...
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posted by Aniruddhaat 10/01/2006 10:39:00 AM
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