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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