So it was a passing cloud after all!

I was in a dilemma yesterday whether to keep up with the ball-by-ball updates of WI chase against the aussies (which they did without much success) or to watch jaysuriya and sachin blast away a bunch of discards and amateurs (which also didn’t materialize).
Watching the 20-20 was more appealing as it was coming on TV while I could only follow the updates of the test match on cricinfo. The test match was interestingly poised with the host requiring 240 odd runs with 9 wickets in hand to give aussies an underdog bite, the West Indians promised more or so it appeared, which somehow lured me into following it. Though the host began boldly, they lost wickets in a heap and Clarke and Lee had the final say in spite of resistance from the tail. The match was anything but interesting after the first half hour and after chanderpaul got dismissed there was only one team that can win. Knowing this, I started seeing the IPL match where a half-hearted Mumbai Indians were blown away in the last over. In spite of being a thriller, there was hardly anything I could feel after the match while the memories of the 3rd and 4th days of the test match were still lingering in my mind (though it came a cropper on the 5th) . Maybe Jeffrey Archer (the prolific author) was after all correct when he said
"Twenty20 is not cricket. It's pure entertainment. VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid batting out a whole day against the Australians - now that is cricket."

P.S- Imagine VVS Laxman and Dravid batting a whole day, this might lead people lining up to go out rather than queuing up to come into the stadium.