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Upsets and Underdogs

Kiwi Cricket's Shangri La... "Can still hear the deafening din of the Indian crowd chagrin. Stunned shell shocked silence at mandarins' sins. Yet somehow still so loud Like thunder down under in the proud Land of the long white cloud. Daring to dream of derring do plunder. Upsets’ unctuous umami. Shocks’ sumptuous serendipity. Cast asunder as against the odds. Hallowed Gods' anguished..felled & fallowed. Kiwis vanquished the voodoo of Indian home hoodoo. This purple patch, so perversely plush...got a hunch. Would make even Prince blush, proud as ribena punch. Sporting nirvanas cavorting with crepuscular career nadirs. Can’t pillory this Test expedition, like the Everest conquest & Hillary. Black cap sedition…Indian perdition. Tradition debunked by spunky funk. Not once, not twice but thrice. Teeming..awash with gleaming beaming white. Emancipation...damnation & salvation. The Indian’s cardinal sin…not being able to play spin. No way you can naysay.. just another Bill Murray day. As we learned..the underdog winner.. we yearned had turned. Fat cats burned & stats spurned..into a dog's dinner."

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