Mumbai Indians vs Deccan Chargers at DY Patil
Yesterday I saw my first IPL match live at the DY Patil stadium. Good thing that they built it close to my house. The stadium is very good compared to the joke called Wankhede.
I think that the DY Patil stadium is the best in India and hopefully they would keep it that way. The cops and the adminsitration did a good job in managing the crowd and the parking arrangements made were quite good for such a huge crowd.
The last time I went to a stadium was Wankhede to watch an India Australia one day, the Aussies kicked our butt.
I liked the atmosphere; it was more like a big party. You have to be in a stadium to actually feel why T20 is getting popular. The stadium was packed with 55000 people one can imagine what Eden gardens might be with 1 lakh on a houseful day.
The organizers were playing the usual item songs from movies and boy it was fun to sit with 55000 people most of them were dancing for no particular reason. They had kept some dhol walas in the stands to play the typical Mumbhaiyya tune which we hear during Ganesh visarjan. Music which brings out the ranti dude in any Mumbaikar.
The crowd wanted Sachin and when he waved on the big screen they went mad.
Those who were opposing the cheerleaders should have been in the stands, the moment the firangi cheerleaders of Deccan Chargers came in people forgot that a match was going on.
Everybody in the there were ogling at them.
Well give our crowd firang babes they go bonkers. The poor Mumbai Indians cheerleaders were totally ignored for these goras they must be feeling like Mukesh Ambani after the match. This happens in a sexually suppressed society.
Coming back to the match it was paisa vasool with Gilly giving batting lessons to the Mumbai batsmen.
Initially the crowd was cheering for the Mumbai Indians team but when Gilly started hitting people started cheering him.
I feel that IPL would not be able to bring in team loyalty like the football leagues; people just want fours and sixes from anyone.
Gilly gave the masses what they wanted. The ovation he got was much better than what he would get in Australia. Felt pity for Symonds whenever he came near the boundary for fielding he was booed by the crowd.
Whatever people say I still feel that Deccan Chargers is a good team and they certainly can win over anybody only Laxman should be on the bench. The other team which has got an impressive run till now is the Chennai Super Kings.
Speaking of Chennai this Dhoni ad is worth a watch.
