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The cricket match is about to restart and I\u2019m chatting up Al, a 50-year-old man who grew up in India and just sent his friends a picture of the clouds.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s been here in the States for 20 years, but back in Chennai, the friends he grew up with won\u2019t stop texting him about the rain delay that threatened to clear out this match before it even started.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re asking me, what\u2019s the weather like?\u201d he says. \u201c \u2018Can you look at the sky and see whether the clouds are clearing?\u2019 I had to literally take a picture of the sky clearing and send it to them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said, \u201810 minutes, bro, hang on. I spoke to the weather gods. They promised me they\u2019ll clear up.\u2019 It\u2019s that crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finally, after two delays, the gods have obliged. The sun is out. The biggest international cricket match in the world is taking place on Long Island, in front of a crowd of first- and second-generation Americans clad in blue for India and green for Pakistan, and the emotion is total joy at the fact that they get to be here.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s beyond words,\u201d Al tells me. \u201cWere you here when the anthems were played? Did you feel that? Every grain of sand, every blade of grass in the near vicinity would have felt that vibration.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some background: they\u2019re playing this game here as part of the T20 World Cup, a biannual tournament that\u2019s being co-hosted by the U.S. T20 refers to the format. One of the things most people know about cricket is that it takes five days to play, which is true, sometimes. Most international matches are now played in a one-day format; T20 is an even shorter version that\u2019s meant to appeal to a larger audience, where each team gets 20 overs \u2014 a set of six balls.<\/p>\n
Neelay and Baljit Bhatt, a couple from Indianapolis who flew in for the game, spend most of it answering any question I have before it can form in my head. They\u2019re India fans, and it\u2019s going poorly at the start.<\/p>\n
Pakistan won the coin toss \u2014 eliciting a roar unlike any I\u2019ve ever heard for a coin toss at a football game \u2014 and fielded first, a huge advantage on a wet field where the ball won\u2019t travel far. Then, after the rain delay, they take out Virat Kohli after just four runs, which is roughly equivalent to striking out Mickey Mantle, only if Mickey Mantle was then not allowed to hit for the rest of the game.<\/p>\n
Amad, the Pakistan fan to the left in the row above me, is chanting for Pakistan every two minutes and losing his voice. He\u2019s 29, from Queens, but has family in Lahore, the second-largest city in the country, near the Indian border.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means everything,\u201d he says. \u201cRight now, I have cousins sending me videos from Pakistan. They have the streets shut down. They have screenings going on all over the country. It\u2019s being celebrated as a national holiday.\u201d<\/p>\n
It looks like they\u2019ll have more to celebrate soon. Pakistan have beaten India just once in 16 World Cup matches between the regular format and T20. They hold India to 119 runs and get 10 wickets, which I gather is enough to make them heavily favored before they bat. My college roommate, an Indian-American, is texting me that his team needs to get it together and the situation doesn\u2019t improve once Pakistan starts batting.<\/p>\n
The first Pakistan batter accounts for 31 runs. They\u2019re going to catch 119 easily. India\u2019s win probability, per ESPN\u2019s CricInfo, gets to 1.98 percent with more steady Pakistan hitting. The crowd \u2014 mostly India fans \u2014 is dead.<\/p>\n
Then, in comes Jasprit Bumrah for India and Baljit leans over to tell me he\u2019s considered one of the best bowlers out there. Think Mariano Rivera. Think the 1999 World Series. The crowd is behind him. I don\u2019t know much, but I know Pakistan can\u2019t hit this guy. Pakistan gets just three runs in an over, then just two from the next one. It\u2019s an implosion.<\/p>\n
Suddenly, Pakistan need 32 runs from the last 21 balls. Then they need 26 from 16. We\u2019re counting down like New Year\u2019s. The crowd is chanting Bumrah\u2019s name every few minutes. They need 18 from 6. They need 16 from 3, then hit one to the boundary for four runs. They need 12 from 2, which means they need two sixes \u2014 the equivalent of home runs. The batter hits one towards us in the East stand. No one can look. It lands just short.<\/p>\n
India are going to do it. The final score is 119-113\/7. I look to my left and Amad is already gone. The Bhatts want me to take a picture with them and, what the hell, I oblige.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, talking about their daughter, who spent most of the match playing with the family iPad, Baljit joked that she would be more into it if the Fever were playing. \u201cShe\u2019s in the conversion process,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Right now, I feel like mine just finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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