Cricket + Thrill = Invalid Combination, Try Again

The SAF games 2006 is on in Colombo at the moment. After the South African cricket team decided to "chicken" out from the triangular series many sports enthusiasts in the country were deeply dissapointed in missing out on some cracking sporting action. Well, think again ! What did you miss ? Did you at all miss anything ? Anyone who watched the Sri Lankan table tennis team battling it out with the Indian team in the Women's Team event would have had a time of their lives. It had everything on display. So many come-backs, the agony, desperation, frustration, enthusiasm..YOU NAME IT, THEY GOT IT. To think of all those days where we wanted to wait until the last over of an ODI match to see catch some adrenaline pumping action. (if you call that a thrill) The TT finals were so awesome, every damn minute of the games was so damn amazing. A treat to your eyes. Afterall it takes only around half an hour to decide on the fate of the game and the atmoshphere at the St. Thomas College sports complex was just second to none. After a desperate attempt at getting the so called "invitations" (as tickets were not sold due to security reasons) ending in a failure, I was forced to sit down and watch the match on a mere 21" box. Damn, i felt so jeallous of all those people who were witenessing the action Live ! The screams galored at the Radikal Headquaters (my home) when the match was in progress, screams that even Chester will be proud of.

Eventhough, Sri Lanka lost the match 3-2 after an immense fightback (which was followed by a howl for death from the vicinity of Radikal HQs), the adrenaline pumping action was just great. It ruined any chances of relaxing before a brand new week begins. Especially, I wanna recognize the performance of Ishara Madhurangi who was 2-0 down at one point but trashed her way back to win her event 3-2. Kalpani Herath was bit off target today, whilst Deepika Rodrigo did her level best to bring Sri Lanka to a whisker within getting their first ever international-scale Gold medal through a table tennis team event. This may not sound like a blog entry, but what the heck, here's a hats off to our "ping-pongers" ! Let the world take the heat ! All the best SRI LANKA for the coming games.