If you stand in a queue for about three hours in the hot sun (and you are probably one of the few girls) and still do not complain then you must have been waiting for something very important. If you are thinking I must have been waiting for such long hours for applying a visa or to get admission to a glorious college, well my intentions had been much nobler! I waited for around three and half hours to get tickets for cricket world cup (2011).
Oh yeah! I am one of those billion cricket adorer and is proud to be one. Where did this love which sometimes even gives me a range of symptoms from High BP to missing a beat originate? From my home, I guess, where if Azharuddin gets out my grandpa switches off the TV in his room only to switch it on in the living room. 
So I grew up with this sport which has inspired many throughout the world and whose players been considered larger than life in my country. Who could have not had a heart-break when India lost their semi-finals in 1996WC (of course, if you are/ were prejudiced to this cricket loving nation and cricket itself) or had butterflies in stomach when Anil Kumble was a wicket away from taking his and India’s first ten wicket haul?
When my fellow class mates found teleserials interesting, a group of us took pleasure in discussing Rahul’s batting style or Srinath’s speed. As I grew old, so did my interest and love for this incredible game.
So you can imagine the mad joy I must have experienced when India did win the world cup. Tears of joy, jumping up and down and texting non-stop to convey my happiness, I can still recall those lovely moments.
Ok, it might not be a big deal
for most of the people around, but for me, it truly is a moment which I will be
bragging about as long as I live.
Who knows even in my old age I might animatedly talk about "those times" and like Severus Snape, when someone asks me "after all this time", I would proudly say "always".
How can I ever agree this is just a sport when it has helped me get some really good friends, wonderful moments and a smile every time I watch it? I am not really good at initiating conversations but few things that interest me, like cricket, is a perfect way to hold me on to person and as a starter, it does help.
So when I did get my tickets for the CWC last year, needless to say, I was on cloud no. infinity. I had been telling everyone around any one who would lend me a ear that watching the world cup in India is one of my long term goals (It really was since 1996 CWC). I am not kidding! I am capable of such crazy behaviors.
Much has been said of the sport that literally masks other wonderful games. Cricket sure has come a long way from the time I started watching it, but the happiness of watching a really good match or even just a good over does still grip me to the seats and I hope it always does.
