Thursday, April 13, 2017

IPL cricket match experience at Wankhede


From last 10 years, Summer season starts with IPL in INDIA “ Come to home in the evening and  watch cricket between 8 to 12” , this has been a ritual in INDIA for last many years since IPL started.

Being a Mumbaikar, I am proud supporter of Mumbai Indian team.
Here is writing my first blog on cricket.

“10 saal... aapke naam” is the tag line used for this season of IPL. Listening this tune, may be more than 10 times in a day we made a plan to watch MI match at Wankhede. Then the question came, who should be the opponent ?” the first 2-3 options were RCB, SRH & KXIP. We chose SRH since they were defending champions and have Yuvi in the team.(Real reason for choosing SRH was my wifey wants to see Yuvi, no other option 😉 )



Once match date has been fixed, we bought tickets through bookmyshow. There were few stands in which we were interested like Sachin Tendulkar stand, Divecha pavilion & Sunil Gavaskar stand, finally We settled with E section in Sachin Tendulkar stand since it was closer to field amongst available tickets at the time of booking.



The big day arrived, we took local train to reach Wankhede, (No parking allowed on queens neckless, you can park in NCPA or gymkhana grounds if you have membership, heavy traffic near churchgate station due to match ,so chosen not to go by car) we took taxi from CST to Wankhede gate no 4. The crowd was enthusiastic (Mostly in blue) lined up to go inside the stadium. (tip : water bottles. Packaged food, DSLR & selfi sticks are not allowed so don’t keep these things while going to wankhede).

 It took us 20 odd minutes to go inside & grab our seats. we saw Ravi Shastri , Brett lee, Sanjay Manjrekar preparing for toss. (tip: if you could come early then you can see all players practicing on ground)

It was a fantafabolous experience of flashing MI blue flags when they scores a boundary or took a wicket. Seriously fellas ,can’t express that feeling in words It's a kind of experience everyone should get. Also, Mumbai crowd getting crazy whenever cameraman shows god of cricket – Sachin on main big screen.


SRH batted first and scored 154 runs. David warner was once again elegant with its shot selection but a good catch by PP ends his innings on 49 & we got a  chance to see Yuvraj batting. MI bowlers bowled really well in death overs. Slinga malinga, Jasprit Bumrah and Bhajji  as usual was at their best.

Later, PP and Jos butter opened the innings for MI and few drives from PP were just perfectly placed (The best one was backfoot punch towards mid-off) .We were lucky enough to see Ro”HIT” Sharma, Pollard, Hardik Pandya batting.


It was a simple chase for MI guys. They did it with 2 overs to spare.
It was mind blowing experience because of Mumbai crowd. They cheer for everything, right from toss- wickets- boundaries-strategic time out countdown– last ball of match.

I have been to LORDS but mind my words Wankhede beats LORDS when it comes to Mumbai crowd &  cheer.

We are looking forward to go there once again for next game. May be eliminator game (Semi-final) on 16th may.




- Zestified Vishal

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