I don’t really follow cricket, but I guess I’m a bit drawn to the events of this weekend, the first weekend in the first round of games gearing up for the World Cup. You see it seems that there were some unexpected losses and upsets, namely the Indian loss to Bangladesh (which, as one friend explained, was supposed to be such an obvious game people had expected to sleep through it) and the Pakistani loss to Ireland. And like I said, I could probably not care less about the Indian or Pakistani teams and their chances at World Cup fame. But I was oddly happy to hear of these turns of events this morning. At least I wasn’t the only one caught off guard; clearly there was something in the air that left me, the Indian
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