ICC Cricket World Cup Final Match, India v SriLanka at Mumbai, April 2, 2011
And what does the sadistic World Cup give us in return? An India-Sri Lanka final. Really now? Of all the match-ups possible, we get this. Like India-Sri Lanka is the only complete, absolute truth. Sucking everything else in, like some super vacuum cleaner.
Objection. We will review this. This decision sounds just wrong. There could have been many other, more desirable, scenarios as opposed to watching another rerun of cricket's Neighbours.
We don't mind Ricky Ponting spitting generously into his hands, accepting the World Cup with one and shoving Sharad Pawar off the dais with the other. Or Jesse Ryder drinking from the Cup That Counts. (Coke, of course.) Or Shahid Afridi celebrating Boris Becker-style, and thus being unable to hold the World Cup, with Ian Chappell moaning about the despicable act on air. Or Andrew Strauss and his team on crutches sitting in a shrink's couch, holding the World Cup aloft. Or South Africa choking with tears at having won the World Cup. You get the point.
There could have been so many poor, cringe-inducing pranks the World Cup could have played on us, but this is black humour of the worst kind. The Misbah-ul-Block jokes are better than this one.
INDIA v SRILANKA World Cup 2011 LIVE VIDEO, STREAMING
Timing: 14.30 local | 09:30 GMT | 14.30 IST
And what does the sadistic World Cup give us in return? An India-Sri Lanka final. Really now? Of all the match-ups possible, we get this. Like India-Sri Lanka is the only complete, absolute truth. Sucking everything else in, like some super vacuum cleaner.
Objection. We will review this. This decision sounds just wrong. There could have been many other, more desirable, scenarios as opposed to watching another rerun of cricket's Neighbours.
We don't mind Ricky Ponting spitting generously into his hands, accepting the World Cup with one and shoving Sharad Pawar off the dais with the other. Or Jesse Ryder drinking from the Cup That Counts. (Coke, of course.) Or Shahid Afridi celebrating Boris Becker-style, and thus being unable to hold the World Cup, with Ian Chappell moaning about the despicable act on air. Or Andrew Strauss and his team on crutches sitting in a shrink's couch, holding the World Cup aloft. Or South Africa choking with tears at having won the World Cup. You get the point.
There could have been so many poor, cringe-inducing pranks the World Cup could have played on us, but this is black humour of the worst kind. The Misbah-ul-Block jokes are better than this one.
INDIA v SRILANKA World Cup 2011 LIVE VIDEO, STREAMINGTeam: INDIA VS SRILANKA
Venue: MUMBAI
Date: APRIL 2-04-2011
Timing: 14.30 local | 09:30 GMT | 14.30 IST
Live Match Link:
SriLanka squad | |
KC Sangakkara(Captain - WKT Keeper), DPMD Jayawardene, TM Dilshan, CRD Fernando, HMRKB Herath, CK Kapugedera, KMDN Kulasekara, SL Malinga, AD Mathews, BAW Mendis, M Muralitharan, NLTC Perera, TT Samaraweera, LPC Silva, WU Tharanga. | |
India squad | |
MS Dhoni(Captain - WKT Keeper), V Sehwag, R Ashwin, PP Chawla, G Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, V Kohli, A Nehra, MM Patel, YK Pathan, SK Raina, S Sreesanth, SR Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh | |
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