Before the IPL started  I made a promise to myself that I would watch at-least one match in the stadium this season.  A couple of days ago, thanks to Anant I had the pleasure of watching Royal Challengers Bangalore take on the Rajasthan Royals in Bangalore.

We had easily one of the best seats in the stadium and had a great view of the match. The hospitality was great but only for the spectators, the visitors(Rajasthan Royals) got abushed by the home team(Royal Challengers Bangalore). RCB were so dominant that they finished the match easily in half their allotted overs.

The one sided match was not very exciting but the event itself was so amazing that it was easily of the best experiences of my life…

As the crowd settled in we watched the Royal Challengers going thru their warm up ahead of the match. There was one moment where Rahul Dravid turned to a section of crowd and jokingly flexed is biceps, the crowd went nuts…

RR were batting first and they never really got off to a start. We had some very impressive pace bowling by Dale Steyn, Jacques Kallis and Praveen Kumar… The RR batsmen could not find an answer to the bouncers they were being served… then came Anil Kumble. Easily one of the best leg spinners of all time, Anil was in perfect control of the match. Another lovely moment that I will never forget…

Yousuf Pathan was looking good for a while, he hit two awesome strikes out of the ground but misjudged a single and was short of the crease when Manish Pandey knocked down the stumps. The rest of the innings was almost a blur… In the end the visitors where bowled out for 91 and the match looked already over.

The Bangalore boys were on song right from the start. Manish and Kallis were striking the ball so well that we wondered if the match would even cross 10 overs. Shane Warne brought himself on… another exciting moment in the match, I got to watch the two greatest leg spinners of my time bowling and that too on the same day!

In the end the match ended in what was an anticlimax, a couple of wides and a simple single to seal the victory. And just like that the evening was over… Another day of my life that will be hard to forget…