Winner takes ball!
Updated On: 07 July, 2024 06:53 AM IST | Mumbai | Rahul da Cunha
A relatively younger ball, with green stains, but full of energy said, “Hello everyone, I’m a 2011 masterpiece, I am a master ball, a ball no one will forget…”
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Illustration/Uday Mohite
Night had fallen on the Wankhede stadium– all was quiet inside the ground, as the stands filled up—a calm before the storm. But, outside on Marine Drive it was mayhem. Mumbai’s adoring crowds thronged to catch a glance at their homecoming heroes—as the open bus approached the venue, an epilogue of cheering and celebration would soon envelop the Mumbai’s premier stadium. Up on the stage lay a fancy box of cricket balls, they were excited, the balls, along with India’s victorious T20 team, they too were to be felicitated by the BCCI. These were legendary balls, each of them had played a critical part of India’s most famous victories in ODI and T20 matches over the years— there were some newbies, some semi new and a few faded old ones. Which of them was the greatest ball in white ball history—they argued among themselves.
An older white ball, scuffed and soiled, “Ouch, my body still hurts, man, I was thwacked by Yuvi Singh for those six sixers off that Stuart Broad upstart, my entire career was over in six balls in 2007… but at least I was part of a record and I deserve this honour!”
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