Ind vs Pak 5th ODI, Venue:Lahore

24th March 2004

"Deck the halls with boughs of holly,
fa lala la lalala
Don we now our gay apparells ,
fa lala la lalala...!!"

The christmas carol mite b out of season, but definitely not out of occasion..! .. Victory tastes sooo sweet doesnt' it..!?Now that the cup is won, i think that i'm more than willin to propagate the "Jeet lo Dil" propaganda...!What a match..! well..actually...there wasnt much of a *match*...we clearly had an upper hand..n i think pretty much the whole of India knew within the first 15 overs of the 2nd half that we'd win...As for the battin, well i cant say that we xceedingly well...sehwag was once again blastin away senselessly n handed over his wicket in a platter to pak, yuvraj too didn't seem to show much grace under pressure, ganguly cud have done better and yup the wall did crumble, but hey,in his case i'll jus say that bowlers got lucky(yup, he's beyond critisism).Tendulkar..?? : No commentAs for laxman he played splendidly, he was my fav in the australian tour n his knock of 107 was jus what the doc had prescribed for the indian team....but.....MOTM, i think not. Yes, laxman was VV good , but Pathan was Brilliant.It was heart wrenchin to c the motm *not* go to him.Those early wickets, that magnificent bowlin, its not for no reason , that i'm more than willin' to allow him to share the status of Demi-God along with( who else! ) dravid!