Bermudas..!
After the majestic and magnificent victory that India achieved against Bermuda some time ago the mood was very upbeat throughout the country, in the cricket team and amongst other well wishers.
“Four hundred and thirteen runs!” exclaimed an Indian supporter pasting together the poster of Sehwag he had nearly torn up and burned the day before, “Never before has any team scored such a total!” And he kissed the poster and rubbed off the gum that stuck to his lips from the place he had torn the day before.
“Three sixes and seventeen fours!” said another Indian supporter, “that’s what our hero Sehwag hit, “Has anyone ever hit seventeen fours?”
“In eighty seven balls!” shouted another supporter.
“Bravo Dhoni!” said another youth.
“Twenty nine in twenty five balls!” said a youngster as he carried another brick on his head and placed at the site of Dhoni’s house, which had been pulled down the day before. “For such run rate the government should give him another house free!”
“Ganguly!” said a Bengali supporter.
“Ah! Ganguly!” said another, “What a fight, what a comeback!”
Like I said the mood in India is jubilant.
“We are world beaters!” said a stockbroker in a Bombay local as he tried to edge a man sitting next to him out of his seat.
“We will beat England!”
“And Australia!”
“West Indies!”
“And New Zealand!” cried all the passengers in the crowded local.
“And China!” said the man who was being edged out of his seat.
“China does not play cricket,” said the stockbroker as he finally edged the man out of his seat.
In the offices of the Cricket Committee the mood was ecstasy.
“Watch India become world champs!” said the Cricket chief.
“They’ll bring back the World Cup!”
“We’ll keep it in my office room!”
“I’ll shine it every day!” said his secretary.
“Why not keep a special room for it?” said a member from Calcutta
“I’ll keep it in my office room!” said the Chief and all the members walked in to see where the chief was going to keep the cup.
The bookies were happy.
“Best odds for India!”
“India will make us millionaires!”
And all the Indian supporters, the passengers in the train, the members of the cricket board and also the bookies shouted in one voice, “India will win the World Cup!”
“As long as the other teams all wear Bermudas..!” rang out the lone voice of the man in the train who had lost his seat, but this time everybody nodded sadly in agreement.
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