It really hurts when you sometimes really look forward to something and plan for something which is not in your control and when that thing goes wrong. You feel that you wasted a lot of time and effort for that. Well leaving all serious things aside, cricket matches tend to lead to this outcome a lot.
When I was young I use to hurry from school hoping and praying for my school van to move faster to get home quickly to watch the cricket match on tv, and then when I get home I find out that there is a power cut, or just when I turn on the tv a wicket falls (this happens a lot when I wait a bit too long to go for a lecture at the university) or the opposition are well set for a victory. (Oh the feelings of disappointment)
Last Sunday was a perfect example for what I call the curse of the spectators. Me and a couple of friends went to a friend’s place in Deniyaya after finishing the dreaded exams. All of us are avid cricket fans. So after much effort we managed to find a color tv and an antenna and a booster (just in case) to watch the World T20 finals.
Then when we got to Deniyaya we spent over two hours moving, rotating the antenna around to catch Channel Eye properly. One guy watched for the quality of the channel while others moved it. Phrases like “than onna hariyagena enawa”, “aiyo onna aaye upset una”, “thawa poddak oya paththata”,”naa oy oya paththata neme anith paththata” came constantly out of the quality controller’s mouth.(it was only later we found out that the match was being telecasted on rupavahini which has far better reception than channel eye, in outstation areas).
All along we were discussing on the strategies Sri Lankan team should take to win the match. We all agreed that batting first would be the best thing to do, and decided any score over 140 would surely be defendable because our bowling was very good. We talked in length why Chris Gayle won the toss and decided to bowl first in the semi finals (gosh wasn’t he stupid?). And specially about Dilshan and his performances. (we also formulated a few theories on how he managed to be so consistent)
By 7.30p.m. we were already with food, couple of mega bottles, water and all the other little things.
What Happened : Sri Lanka batted first made 138 and still lost the game.
A classic case of the spectators curse.
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I used to beleive this theory. The spectators' curse. When many people are looking at something you're doing, it tends to fail don't know how
Nice blog man, hope to see more soon
thanks malshan
...and that Sanga shouldn't have given the ball to Isuru Udana instead of Jayasooriya... lolz
Anyway players would have done better if they know the mere faith Sri Lankans (like the watcher inside the sanctuary) had in them or the effort the bunch of guys put in, to tune channel eye. he he