“Football is a simple game: 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win,” English footballer Gary Lineker once said. Indian Premier League cricket and Chennai Super Kings come very close.
Injuries, bad form, rotten luck… nothing seemingly dims the chances of M.S. Dhoni & Co. And unlike the straightjacketed Germans of yore clothed in black and white, the men from Chennai do it with panache and more than a dash of resplendent yellow.
The five-wicket triumph in the final over Gujarat Titans at the Narendra Modi Stadium in the wee hours of Tuesday best embodied this.
