Bangladesh beats India
As any staunch supporter of team India, we watched this game — of World Cup Cricket 2007 — with disbelief as India got slammed. If we’d do a double take on the match, we’d rather skip criticizing team India’s medicore play in favor of talking about Bangladesh’s excellent team performance.
To be fair, they beat India fair and square. And this victory only reinforces the thought that this could turn out to be anybody’s World Cup this year. A little while ago, we were amazed to see Ireland’s thrilling fielding and those near impossible catches they took, while playing against a formidable team like Pakistan.
From a spectator’s point of view, there has been another fun filled way of enjoying Cricket: It was wonderful to catch The Indicast’s live skypecast. They have pledged to provide live commentary and fan chatter along throughout the match.
In short, a bunch of guys, who love Cricket, were not only providing a live commentary of the match — for those who couldn’t or were unable to watch — but also were discussing the never-ending ifs and buts of the game, strategy and everything that the otherwise Cricket fans would love to talk about while watching.
I love the thought of watching a game and sharing opinion over a live chatter. It is as much fun as watching the game itself. Seeing people groan when a catch was dropped or jump-up in joy when the ball went over the fence, et al, was really fun.
I have been a mute listener to the skypecast. It was simply because either we had nothing to say in particular, or we were too paralysed to react to team India’s breathtaking performance. Honestly, we were groaning endlessly.