19th September 2020;
Mahira's POV:
After all those tours and travels with the last one being England Tour, today mahira finally landed in Dubai after wrapping up the work after England rest series and pre IPL work in India, obviously the work is never over but now I have a beautiful view to work from, so I'm not joining CSK for now I'll be staying with my team, i.e, our production management team, and guess what, we're staying in Gevora (guys if you don't know about this hotel, google it right now.), It's the world's tallest hotel and has the coolest pool on rooftop. And this is where we'll be staying for the first few days at least.
Nevertheless, if I were to describe my happiness in words I'll not be able to do it. Finally that thing which brought me so close to these amazing people is starting again. And I'll get to be there on the ground on the first day to cheer for my CSK. We sat on the bus and left for the stadium, since we don't have a standardized work place here in Dubai, all the team based analysis and production work will happen from the stadium itself, they've equipped all three stadiums in UAE with stable machinery and technology. We just had to carry our laptops.
Every match is good, but MI vs CSK is the El Clasico of IPL and we all know it, no matter how much I love rohit bhaiya and everyone else, today I'm so against there team.
CSK won the toss and elected to bat first which was quite a shocker because mahi bhai always chooses to field first, but I can do better than doubting his decision, because trust me, I've done it before and regretted. Whatever decisions he takes, you can just trust them to be the best. So his equal-to-computer brain must've thought something or well, everything, before choosing to bat first.
Since today was the first match it took me some time to complete my work and the match was about to start, I ran to the vvip pavillion where literally everyone was now Sakshi bhabhi, priyanka bhabhi, reeva bhabhi, jaya, imari, puja bhabhi, vidya bhabhi, sheetal bhabhi, archana bhabhi, firoza, sumayya. Literally everyone was there and all the kids as well, it's the first time I'll be meeting Priyanka bhabhi, and oh, the stadium is full, UAE is corona free and the stadium allows crowds.
"Hello!", I said jumping out from the door from inside the pavillion.
"Hey. Come come.", Sakshi bhabhi said and patted a seat beside her.
"I've saved the seat beside me for you.", She said and I side hugged her. How can someone be so sweet all the time?
"Hey mahira!", Sheetal bhabhi greeted me. I've met her before, archana bhabhi, riva bhabhi, jaya as well, rest others I was meeting for the first time.
"So guys, let me introduce her properly. She is my and Mahi's closest and loveliest Mahira, who a lot of you must've heard of.", Sakshi bhabhi introduced me to everyone.
"Yes yes, we've spoken on calls so many times already.", Priyanka bhabhi said and we hugged each other.
"Faf told me about you. Someone Cheerful and sweet.", Imari said and I smiled, I'm yet to meet the boys.
"Yeah. He was super nice as well.", I said to her.
"And also she was my only companion on the stands during the first leg of IPL.", Riva bhabhi said
"Yes bhabhi. love you, it was just us two but we had so much fun.", I said and hugged her, she was my first friend here but after meeting everyone else my bond with her has weakened a bit, all due to my fault. But I promise, by the time we leave Dubai, we'll be best friends again.
"Okay guys, match has started.", Sheetal bhabhi said and we all took our seats, watching Rutu and Faf walk out to bat.
And so the match started, when Rutu was standing there, Faf, Moeen, Sonu bhai, Rayudu, the wickets kept falling and it felt like we are watching a football match, even mahi bhai came in early and got out at 3. But Ruturaj, he was standing tall, smashing a half century he continued his India form. Jaddu bhai went to bat and successfully managed to score 26, but unfortunately Jassi bhai's yorkers didn't spare him, and he had to go back to the pavillion. Dwayne Bravo came out to bat, and he made 23 runs in 8 balls, Ruturaj was still there, so close to a century he scored 88 valuable runs and stood there when the entire middle order collapsed and saved CSK's day, even though he couldn't score a century that day, that 88* off 58 screamed out loud 'It's Ruturaj's time'. I'm awaiting a centure though, hopefully we'll see one from his bat.
