Here I am, up at 02:00 local time, watching a cricket match…strike that…THE cricket match of the year.
India vs Pakistan in the 2011 cricket world cup semi-finals.
I don’t really feel it in my gut, just how important this game is to my friends from India, but at some level I MUST get it because well…here I am. I know that many, many, MANY (all?) Indians and Pakistanis regard this game as the biggest game for their side since 2003 – the last time these sides met in a world cup match. Those same fans are up also in their various offices and homes, watching.
Can’t say I would be here, alone in my office, at this un-holy hour, watching this match if it weren’t for those self same colleagues who took an afternoon last summer to show me and others how to play.
I am, amazingly, mostly tracking the terminology and even some of the more subtle details. I don’t have a good idea of pace and run-rate of this caliber game other than what I can glean from the emotion of the crowd and from the tone of the announcers.
I am very happy that the stream includes English speaking commentary – and that the game didn’t start on IST. 🙂
Go Blues!
blief 
Thanks for the clarification, there was a riveting documentary on at 2am PDT about the gestation cycle of the grasshopper on the Discovery Channel. I was about to see if you wanted to share notes.
Go Blues!
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Dwayn and I can’t get you to join us for a beer, but you’re up at 2:00 to watch freakin’ cricket?
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Tony~I see the east has not harmed your humor! 🙂
Lief~you didn’t fall far from the tree! 🙂
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@Mom – leaf’s generally don’t.
@Tony – OMG – It was like Alien in there!
@Shawn – You know, we’re gonna hafta rectify that – next time you start at 2AM gimme a call. 😉
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I rarely start at 2:00, but I’m still going at that time fairly often. I don’t think the rest of your family would appreciate the phone ringing at that time of “night”.
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