It has been more than 7 years I lost the opportunity to watch cricket. It is in the last couple of years that Cricket has seen the new phase - Cricket 3.0. Given full day presence in US, my love of game has shifted to American football (not soccer). Being in Tennessee for most part of US life, my obvious team is Titans and I like Vince Young. There is NBA, there is PGA, there is ML world seriece (really can't follow the whole baseball season though!!) and all kinds of NCAA stuff. Kevin Harvick and NASCAR is certainly fun to see some serious wrecks.
Does any of this impact my love to Cricket? No. There is no easy way to watch the game live like seven years ago. But cricinfo.com has always been a bookmark on my links/favorites bar on all the browsers - IE or Chrome. I do the 10-second click almost everyday to make sure I read the headlines.
Given the heavy IPL format, I have a new problem. Which is my cricket team? India. It is still India. But IPL is so much fun, I can just watch the game but need a team to support. So, like Titans, what is my obvious choice? Mumbai Indians - Sachin Tendulkar plays for the team - an obvious choice. Is that my team? Yes. Born and bought up in Chennai area - I like Dhone too. Is that my team? Yeah. Being a Telugu guy and been to Warangal for school, is it Hyderabad my team? Yeah. Gosh. I live in Bangalore for the last decade and love the city from childhood. Is Bangalore my team? Yeah. Thankfully Delhi, Kolkata, Punjab and Rajastan are not competing for my race.
What a good problem to have in a game!!
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