Thank You Sachin!

I checked the time in my mobile. It showed 6. Oh! 6 o’clock! Everybody had left at 4.30 and I was there in the office, with three other persons. Thanks to this ‘fourth quarter of a financial year’ thing. At least there is some work to do now! So much, that it makes me stay in the office till 6. And even sometimes 7. Touchwood! Meri khud ki nazar mujhe boht jaldi lag jaati hai. :-/

And then, he made a call to somebody. He was not my boss, but the one, jise I hate the most! All the conversation was going on in Telugu. So there was no chance, that I could get anything what they were talking about. And then after sometime, he yelled Sachin, which brought my attention to him, who was standing at about 10 meters away from me. And then, 191. What? 191? 191! By that time, I had just a single update of the match: India had lost Sehwag very early. So I was wondering what is wrong or right with this 191! Was this his score? Or India’s? Or something else is there? And then, I saw him smiling. It was not a smirk. It was a smile on his face, in the bliss of something. And it did not take me to make a guess what that 191 was all about.

I went to boss’s seat. timesofindia.indiatimes, Ctrl + Enter and clicked on the sports tab. OMG! The screen was showing something which amazed me to the core! He was playing on 196 at that time. 196!!! :O and about 3-4 overs were left to be bowled by RSA. He had already broken one record, which nobody had been able to do for a long time! OMG! Ye kab hua?! Mujhe kyun ni pata is match ke baare mein kuch bhi?! 196! Matlab, 1^st double century in an ODI is on the way! Saara India khushi se jhoom raha hai, aur main yahan mara raha hoon! Ummm..kya karoon! Jaaun? Ya baithke kaam khatam karoon? Tmrw GM will ask for the updates. erm..kya karoon? Daant sun lunga..200 baar-baar ni banne waale. Yea right, daant sun lunga. Calculated the risk and went to the boss.

“Sir! I’ve almost done all the work. Just these 2-3 GRs are left, which I cant bill. There are a lot of mistakes in them. And I’m leaving now.”

(After thinking for a while)

“OK fine. The work is more or less done. Go!”

And then, I ran! I ran like hell, from the office to the hostel, for about 5 minutes, with just one stop of about 10 seconds, remembering Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump and praying continuously to God, “Please! Don’t let him! Please!” Reached hostel and then common room. Just-In-Time! He was at the non-striker’s end, the score-bar showed that he was playing at 199. Aur fir jaake meri saans mein kuch saans aayi. Thankyou God! Sometimes, you do listen to me! Thanks to Dhoni. He didn’t let him.

But fir Dhoni ne pakaya boht saara..he played all the six balls of 49^th over, without even taking a single run! How could he do like this?! :O When he was hitting boundaries, nobody was cheering up but cursing him. 50^th over, 1^st ball..dot! I ran for about 5 minutes not to see you play, uncle! Temper was at its peak, and then, 2^nd ball..another shot, heading to become another boundary, but thanks to Hashim Amla, who stopped the ball, just a few meters away from the fence.

And then was the moment there, which I was waiting for, for which I ran so fast, for which I didn’t care about what would be happening with me tomorrow. I saw him making a 200! Mera effort waste ni gaya! :D :)

I was more than happy! There was a reason to stay happy. He made me happy.

Iske aage aur kuch ni likhna. :)