Friday, October 10, 2003

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| | History in the making!!

It is a thursday night and i was struggling with some books for the last hour or so. The idea of going all the way to the library to study for an hour or two doesnt really make much sense, so i stayed back home.

We started off chatting bout our India trip in December, things to be done, places to go, restaurants to attack and clubs to go dance in. The conversation varied from the trip budget to a couple of special marriages to be attended, to how the credit card companies would have a hard time once we returned.

While doing so we realised that 2 cricket matches were going on, one in India and the other one down under. A small peek at the cricinfo main page shocked us, Matt Hayden of Australia was playing at 290 and was going strong. While Avijeeth and Atul had to go sleep cause of an early morning, I lingered on - on the pretext of trying to study, all i did was hit the refresh button every minute or so. From 300 to 350 to 375, Hayden laid an assualt on the hapless ZIM bowlers. He crossed the coveted 375 run mark with ease. Brian Lara's record holds no more. He just got out on 380, still maintaining his ever aggressive intent.

This probably is the fastest triple century, both in terms of balls and time taken. One of the best knocks in test history, it makes me shudder at the thought of the Indian pace attack trying to bowl and contain the Aussies. What with Adam Gilchrist coming in at number 7 and making a quickfire century like nobody's business. The scorecard reads 736/6 declared ??.

Our only hope in December (apart from the fact that GOD plays for us at number 4 ,offcourse :)) would be to see the Hayden's and the Gilchrist's join Mcgrath in the injury list!

JaI. | 3:27 AM