Early morning call ...

Its 5.10 am this morning and the Mission Impossible ringtone on my cell phone goes full blast. I have one of those "Earthquake Happenned" type awakenings, as I jump out of bed. I find the cell phone quickly and it says "Unknown" on the caller id. Ramya who is still trying to come to terms with my explosive jump tells me it must be from India.
Groggily, I say "Hello!".
Guess who's calling? Its my dad!!
He's like "What are you doing still sleeping? It is India v/s Pakistan cricket match finals. Aren't you watching it?"
I say "Nope dad ... no live relay anywhere!"
He says, sorta sad for me, "Oh! Sorry I woke you up"
I say "Its ok dad ... Thanks for calling anyways"

I tried sleeping, but couldn't! I was super curious about the match now. I tried refreshing the score once or twice on my cell phone, while still sleeping. The match was just too exciting for me to sleep.

I jumped out of bed and started following the game excitedly on cricinfo. Man ... what an exciting match! India's total was pathetically low. For a game like this, something close to 200 or even 200+ would have been very safe. I felt Yuvraj and Dhoni let the team down badly by their batting. Bowling and fielding was amazing as usual, except for pathetic bowling by Sreesanth and Harbhajan. But, Sreesanth made up for his follies by taking crucial catches.

An early morning work related phone conference meeting made following the game all the more tense. Man! that's what great games are made of. I wish I could WATCH it live.

Thanks Dad for making my morning a great one! :-)