Both Indians and Pakistanis are expectantly looking for a “Mother of all finals”.Passions and emotions are expected to run high. Anyway whatever happens will be known as the evening progresses.

Being a keen observer I am going to marshal my creative ability to speculate how India Pakistan 20-20 finals will mean differently to people from different walks of life?

Political parties as usual will try this opportunity to put each other in a tight corner. Congress (I) has already fired the first shot .The appointment of Rahul Gandhi as Leader of Youth Congress will be interpreted by the party loyalists read family loyalists as Congress Leadership’s faith in Indian youths. The behind the scene shakers and movers will correlate Rahul Gandhi’s emergence as India’s future with Dhoni’s men in blue domination on the ground. Rejuvenated BJP Leadership just back from Bhopal will be looking for a young face in the party but in the end will reconcile and settle for all time young leaders “Vajpayee and Advani”. These leaders will invoke Dhoni’s home state Jharkhand’s “latent resources” fond memories comparing them to Indian team’s  superiority on the field.Left Front will surely miss the opportunity even though it has young leaders in its “kitty” since these names will require ratification by the Politburo first , indirectly suggesting to Dhoni to get the team’s strategy endorsed by BCCI President first before its implementation.DMK will be ready to showcase its young emerging leadership.The party cadres who took part in ransacking BJP’s office have been already identified to take this onerous responsibility , thereby sending a clear cut message to Tam India to ransack the opposition. RJD party has no “young leadership” problem!.The Honourable Railway Minister will surely pick and choose from dozens available within his own family and through him convey “chara” strategy “catch me if you can” to Dhoni.

Betting syndicates on both sides of the border will have a field day. The Indian Betting Syndicate Chairman doubling up as Pakistan betting Syndicate Chairman , presently holed up in Karachi will make sure that between the two countries which delivers maximum profit to his Corporate wins the Championship.

All mobile companies including state owned BSNL will be too busy delivering millions of “coded bets” in the form of SMS choking networks.It is a different thing that they will be required to send a “call details” printout to RAW and IB in respect of international calls to Pakistan and South Africa lasting more than one minute after the match.

The media all over the world will make “moolaha” (fast buck) by hosting competitions and contests.The Indian TV Channels will compete with each other to improve their TRP ratings since all “Comedy, Music and Melodrama” shows today will have few audience.

The Government employees all over India will take a break from their normal practice of leaving office “half an hour early” by deserting office one hour in advance today.

The restaurants and dhabas will be geared up to do a roaring business today evening, waiters tipped to earn heavy tips and their owners hiding cakes behind the counter, ready to spring a surprise on the customers in event of India’s win.

For a change housewives will be resting in the afternoon after a marathon cooking session, with dinner cooked and stowed in Microwave all set to watch the grand finale.

The common Indian and Pakistani with no axe to grind will wait with baited breath to saviour Yuvraj’s , Dhoni’s , Sharma’s , Imran’s ,Malik’s and Afridi’s four’s six’s and Sreesanth’s, Pathan’s, RP Singh’s, Asif’s , Gul’s and Tanvir’s deadly bowling.

Let us wish both India and Pakistan teams’ good luck and respecting the victory of the team that performs better on the field today.