Not So Great Weekend

Wow ! this was the felling that all the Bangalore folks experienced it when the Royal Challengers beat the hot favorites Super Kings Chennai in the semi- finals . The Story of the Royals in the IPL have been one of the great comeback in any big tournament. Under Such immense pressure from the owners and the followers the pressure would have been a little too much to take for the 11 Players on the field, But call it a miracle or the good old fashioned cricket that they played prior to reaching the semi's , The confidence in the team had reached a peak. But when i am writing this the diamond and ruby studded IPL trophy has slipped from the royals and have gone to Deccans . After beating the Super Kings in the semi's everyone in Bangalore thought that they would go all the way and win the IPL . The Sunday was the final that would decide the IPL champion for the 2009 and what a cracker of a game we had . The Super Sunday started with a Master Stroke from the 38 year old captain for the royals, as he knocked the stumps of gilly in the 3rd bowl of the 1st over , the People in Bangalore were jubilant and over the moon . I must say that royals did play well and restricted the Deccans for a modest total within 150 , which in T20 match is a very easy score to chase down .

So through the half way mark all the people who were watching the match thought for sure that the royals are gone be the IPL champions, Even the Deccan players also thought the same i guess, but what happened during the next 2 hours is that amazing pressure bought on by the deccans on the royals , before the Start of the match the way Gilly communicated with their players were so intense that one could have felt that there is something that is gone happen for sure and the deccans wont be a just a push - over even if there were all the stats stacked against them.

What happened next was something many bangaloreans never thought it will happen. Under the pressure mounted by the deccans the royals just folded like a pack of card and lost the game and with that the title too . what a disappointment that was for all the fans including myself to see the game which was in our hand and at the last moment lost it to silly cricket that was played .