I want India to win the ICC World cup this time. I have been following a little bit of every match that India has played. So far India has won/tied every match. I hope India wins toady's match- India Vs South Africa. Here is the theme song of the ICC Cricket World Cup Opening Ceremony:
I wrote this in May 2026 and then left it sitting in my drafts for six weeks. Partly because it feels more personal than what I usually put online. Partly because writing honestly about uncertainty is uncomfortable when most of us are busy performing certainty. And partly because I wasn’t entirely sure I believed all of it yet. I’m still not sure. But perhaps that’s the point. So, here goes. ----- May 2026 Two years ago, I moved back to India. I hadn't planned on it. In fact, if you'd told me in 2020, when I packed my bags and left Bangalore for France, that I'd be back in four years, I'd have laughed it off as a failure of imagination. The plan had always been to stay abroad and build a career in Europe. The universe, well, had other plans. Four years abroad had been, by most measures, a good run. Two years in France at Sciences Po, a well-paid summer internship in Paris, the youngest funded researcher on a research project between Princeton, Columbi...
That was a very close finish (IND-SA match), isn'nt it? Till the end, I was not sure who would win.
ReplyDeleteAnd I saw you celebrating in the 48th over that we would win (it looked like that), but a four and a six from the tail-enders tilted the victory towards South Africa.
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I must be the only Indian who is not watching/keeping track of the matches. So, pls LM, do let us know who won the cup in the end.
ReplyDeleteSouth Africa won the match vs India. It was the first match India lost this ICC World Cup time.
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ReplyDeleteIndia Vs Pakistan Ind-260-9 50 Overs Pak- 231-10 49.5 overs
The ball was caught by Virat Kholi on the last ball of the innings and India Won