The World We Live In!

Today, World Cup Cricket 2015 ended for us. We lost to Australia in Semi Final, and are out of game. I am not going to analyze the game, and provide insight on why we lost, and what we could have done better. Every cricket fan knows what went wrong, and everyone has opinion, suggestions and what not, about how we could have won. So, there is no point writing about it.  I am going to write about my feelings, and good feelings, proud feelings about our team. The Indian cricket team. The M S Dhoni and his boys in Blue! They lost the game, but won our heart! The overall performance in this tournament by our team was outstanding. They came as a weak team, and no one was even ready to accept that they will reach Quarter Finals. I remember, their first game was with Pakistan, and we were wishing for that one match win. No one was expecting team India to defend their title. This was because of their recent bad performance in Australia. The team was not at all in form, and was losin...

The Planning and Ticket It all started when my friend JD called me on Saturday, March 27, about the tickets of this game. All the news channels and newspapers are constantly telling that tickets are sold at very high premium, and not easy to get. I never planned to attend this game in the ground, as it was in Mohali, around 300km away from my place. But just knowing that JD is going, and emotionally, I too was completely attached to this game, decided why not? It took me just 5 seconds to decide about paying Rs 22,000/- for Rs 500/- ticket of this match. It’s not that I bought the ticket from black market on a premium, but ours was a package from official Tour Partner of World Cup, TUI.in, and it includes a T-Shirt, transfer from Chandigarh to Mohali and back, apart from the ticket. I know what you should be thinking after reading this, yes, we paid premium for the ticket, but at least, we did not pay it to some black marketeer selling tickets on high price, illegally. So, thi...