The IPL Finals was expected to be the mother of all battles and hyped as the ‘clash of the titans’ of this year’s IPL’s two month long festive extravaganza, but ironically ended as an anti-climax of epic proportions, that felt like all the super-fizz gone out of the giant ‘cola’ that was the ‘Sunrisers’ H team, which had played astonishingly till the evening ! Such was the domination of a fired up KKR bunch that the match was over in half the time, for their batters it was a mere walk in the park with about ten overs to spare.
This caught everyone off guard (for records SRH posted lowest ever IPL Final total to be chased !), the organizers took ages to set the stage for the ‘Presentation Ceremony’ in their valiant efforts to reassemble BCCI biggies on the podium to hand out the IPL trophy/awards to the winners ! By midnight, the long wait had commentators running out of subjects but the media guys had a field day as King Khan and family, other team owners and their entourage did the celebratory gestures, flying kisses and victory laps. For audiences worldwide it was a toss up between switching off the TV and sleeping or wait for Harsha or Ravi to start the awards function proceedings.
So in waiting I imagined that in a celestial world, two great writers (presumably cricket lovers) were discussing the ‘Tale of Two IPL Teams’ with Charles (Dickens) expressing sadness over SRH’s plight while William (Shakespeare) extolled the rout by KKR …
In his style Charles might have reflected :
‘It was a far far poor score, That SRH ever in IPL made
It was a far below par show, That SRH ever dreamed of..’
To this William, a KKR loyalist would state :
‘There was a tide in games of KKR, Which when played in the Finals
Led to a great win and fortune…’
It was left to Charles to sum up the Finals :
‘It was the best of times for KKR, It was the worst of times for SRH,
It was an evening of hits for KKR, It was a night of misses for SRH,
It was a stadium of hope for KKR, It was ‘Chepauk’ of despair for SRH’
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