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Chandigarh: The heat was on the Indian team for the major part of the game on Monday, with the hosts desperate to get on the scoring sheet and then while defending the target. And their fans were in no mood to disappoint. Chants of ‘Symonds go back’, directed at explosive Australian batsman Andrew Symonds, invoked memories of the agitation against the Simon Commission during India's Freedom Struggle in 1928. The voices then used to chant ‘Simon Go back’. Chandigarh was in no mood to see the Aussies to have the Indian team on the mat this time. It turned out otherwise, though, as India bounced back in the series by winning a nail-biting thriller by eight runs. Call it irony, but India's first win in the ongoing One-Day series against Australia here at the Sector-16 stadium wasn't registered in front of a capacity crowd, unlike previous defeats which were witnessed by a sea of Team India supporters. The mood, however, remained upbeat among the ones who did come to watch the match, ignoring the 0-2 deficit at the start of play, as well as the rising temperature at the stadium, which didn't have any shelter. The fans tried a lot of innovation with their boundary placards, denoting fours and sixes. A hole through it and you had a trendy headgear, also doubling up as an attraction piece for shutterbugs. Inhabitants of the Land of Sardars had brought along with them their own piece of art to the highly secure area - some were donning colours of the Indian flag, while some chose to follow the style statement made popular by cricketer-turned-media personality Navjot Singh Sidhu, who incidentally was part of the Indian team that played its last game here against England in 1993. Schoolkids, too, had a statement to make as a young fan had probably asked his mother to make this unique piece last night. A costume made of threads and bearing the Indian flag on the chest was what he had to offer. Most of the upper stands, reserved for Haryana's entire clan of politicians, was left empty as none of them turned up for the game perhaps because of distance or the proposition of sitting in the heat sans the comfort of air-conditioning. The Haryana Cricket Association, however, did make amends, although partially, by inviting around 40 schoolchildren inside the stadium for free. But those who chose to stay back home will definitely repent having given the edge-of-the-seat game a miss. ========================== effinf politicians want A/C on grounds too now.... As if they work really hard to earn a cold air :finger:

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