Got tons of posts to publish but I had to get this out first, lol.
The 5 of us home are all cricket fans. A good day of cricket leaves me without a workable voice for a couple of days. I am sure people hear us from halfway down the street.
Last night was the yet another episode in the eternal battle........ which is Trinidad vs Guyana . If trinidad plays alone, we support them, Guyana alone, we support them........... but Them against each other, its Dad vs the rest of us hehehe............ Is T&T all the way.
So last night me and the boys watching the game, Guyana batting, first wicket falls, we cheer. In comes Chanderpaul. If it was West Indies playing, we celebrating, but we get quiet, knowing his presence could give Trinidad a fight. 3 balls later he gets caught out. Wayyyyy we cheer as if Tendulkar, Jayasuriya,Kallis, anyone from the Australia team ( 1996-2004) got out.
I guess we know what it feels like when other crowds cheered whenever one of our greats got out, Lara, Gayle, God himself( Sir Viv) etc. Even in IPL we never cheered that much ( if at all) when one of 'our' players got out when playing for the other team. We would actually cheer them on still............ afterall iz still we boys !!!!
No way I can say that we aren't fans of the man. I can remember the first match Shiv played, the agony of him trying to reach his first hundred ( along with all the whole of the WI and the crowd that was in Kensington that day), him becoming the cornerstone of WI. The celebration to him outing last night was unexpected. I think we all watch each other and thought," What the hell?" hehehe.
Doh worry boy, we love you forever ( not gonna turn on you when things get bad like how people turn on Lara and Gayle...... me eh care Lara is the man no matter what anyone says). But when it comes to playing against Trindad, the faster the person back in the player lounge, the better, hehehe..... it be country first !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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