The Proudest day of my life!!

2.30 PM i wake up on a saturday afternoon and park myself infront of the TV like millions of other Indians (not sure if that number is now Billions). I sit right there watching Srilanka go into bat. The match had two sides showing too much respect to each other and it showed in the way Lanka eased to a score of 275 and more so by the way India crusied to that score without being largely troubled. MSD for all his poor moments this world cup had a flawless game! right from bowling changes to the batting order (and yes I predicted DHoni would come in before Yuvi!). The only one being getting MOWGLI (Sreecan't) in for Nehra when he had the option of Ashwin.

However, the one thing that stood over it all was seein the cup come home. Its been 28 years. A long wait! and the wait was sweet as hell considering the end result! As they say in India, everything has a happy ending. Now our Generation has a World cup story to tell the next, much like our parents who had their own. Kapil Dev has company at the ultimate epitome of success where it had started to get lonely and India have ethched their name in Golden words in the history books of the sport.

However, this win meant the most to me because of one man! A man who has carried India and the Indian expectations tamasha on his shoulders for 21 years. A man who has gone about his business quietly and surpassed all expectations, broken all records and earned his place as the best player in the world, but for a missing trophy in his cabinet. That man is Sachin Tendulkar! A man no indian is stranger to. In India kids know about Sachin well before they know how to read and write...An Indian who is more Indian than anybody else, an Indian that deserves to be given a special mention in any record books, history books that the country ever has.

I never thought being born a human being, God gave me emotions for others too but for the first time I felt emotions boil over, I cried with Yuvi, with Dhoni, and I cried most for Sachin. Seeing that Man touch that elusive cup, which eluded him for the previous 5 editions of this Tourney was finally in his hands! He hugged it, kissed it n lifted it in Air and each time they showed his face on TV tears rolled down!

A man that all of India has loved with all their heart, An Indian who has not a single smudge on his character on his track record, a Man who has loved the country irrespective of the country not believing in him at times...A man that defies everything another man could feel and changes the way a Man can feel about another man!

Sachin this world cup truly is for you! This world cup has truly united the entire nation and given everybody a reason to feel alive again!

P.s: The one thing that I hated was people celebrating Pakistan and Srilanka's defeat over our Victory! Ridiculous! Absolute Ridiculous!