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ENG v WI: Cricket is back!

Imagine being with someone right from your birth and suddenly they go off for more than four months. There will be emotions. There will be an uncomfortable feel and uncertainty of their return. You will miss them and will find it hard to live without them. Cricket is probably my first love and I never realized without cricket my life would be like this. It is super hard, I tell you.


Well, I’m lying to you if there if I say there is no cricket at all during these four months. I did watch millions of videos including practice videos just to hear the sound of the ball hitting the bat. I would have watched Babar Azam’s cover drive a thousand times, MS Dhoni’s world cup winning shot a thousand times, Dada’s collection of sixes, Sachin’s collection of fours, Raina’s catch to dismiss Akmal, Dravid’s batting against Akhtar, Jack Leech’s single, Ponting’s pull, Rohit’s straight-six against Bangladesh, DK’s final ball six, Starc’s yorker, Ferguson’s inswinger, Warner against Broad, Watson against Riaz and the list goes on. Now, Sachin Tendulkar’s videos are something I do daily even during my normal days and don’t get me started on a few women’s cricket videos available online. Oh, I missed them all. We all did, right?


Now, it’s more than 100 days since England flew back to their town from Columbo. Who would have guessed it that it would take four months to see them back in action?

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The cricket will not be the same, of course, they will be playing before a zero crowd with only support staff and the media watching them live. There will no noises and the silence is going to kill them. There will be no one to boo or go berserk for every good ball and every wicket. Oh, yeah, the climate is going to be all beautiful tomorrow which Anderson would love and he is a match or two away from a milestone, so is Broad and Roach.


Kudos to England for coming up with this arrangement to make the game happen. However, I’m worried about their safety as well. These England men must be loving the game so much. Oh did I mention that West Indies men travelled many km, leaving their town that had far less COVID19 count to stay in a hotel that looked like a prison with no outside contact?
Cricket really more than a game, isn’t it?
Some people cannot go without watching it. Some without playing them and some without ranting and writing about them. It is life or more than that.
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Tomorrow when England walk out, they will be having a different captain. Ben Stokes. From being dropped in 2015, making things worse by bowling the final over in 2016, Stokes has come a long way.
In the interim, he had many controversies away from the game. Still, he was there when England lifted the World Cup, won that match against Australia in the Ashes and tomorrow he will be filling in for Joe Root. What a turn over in his career and what a moment that will be for him.
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Now, cricket is not going to be all same tomorrow. There is no spectators, no saliva, no handshakes and hugs. The only contact will be the ball kissing the bat. While it is going to be difficult to witness the changes, it is going to be the new normal and we have to get used to it. Well, I don’t want the nostalgia anymore. I don’t have videos left to watch. I want live cricket and if this is what the future is, I would take it. Oh yes, those headbands. I’m so going to love this.
Image courtesy: England Cricket

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