“We squished them like flies,” said the puny studio hand with the kind of unholy glee you expect from delinquent tyrants and infantile Australian fast bowlers. When it comes to cricket rivalry between Mumbai and Delhi, fans in India can be all of these and some.
I need hardly add to which city the studio hand owed allegiance. The panel discussion on the IPL match for which I had gone to the studio had been as bland as curry without spice, because the match had been so one-sided that no debate was worthwhile. Mumbai had, well, squished Delhi like flies.
Even Delhi’s partisan crowd went into raptures at this performance from the Little Master, who must remain the only cricketer from Mumbai to be accepted wholeheartedly in Delhi. In that sense, Tendulkar unites India like perhaps nobody before.
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