I never did make it to the IPL players’ sale.
If I could help it, I wasn’t gonna miss out on the merchandise sale.
But I did. Or maybe I didn’t, I can’t even say if they had a sale last time round.
Somehow, last time I wasn’t a full 100% behind the Delhi Daredevils. So how was I gonna shell out a full 100% for their stuff?
But because I never got to the sale, I never could tell how many % I was behind them.
Would I buy at 80%? Or wait for a middle of the road 50%?
Looking back, by the time the Devils got to that knockout game vs. Mumbai Indians, I was with him in the high 90%s, maybe even more.
But then they lost, as expected, to the Royals, and I was through with them, just as they were through with the IPL.
I didn’t expect to be in Jan. 09, asking for a Daredevil tee at adidas? Firstly, I didn’t expect them to stock the stuff in this nowhere season. But they did.
While I’m no XXXL, I’m no Posh Spice size 0 either. But the little salesgirl brings me a Delhi Daredevil sports’ bra. It was that small.
My size sold out. That’s the way it is with everything in the IPL.
Later in the day, with the Daredevils many times removed from my mind, I walked through another adidas store.
They had enough 3D ammo to clothe all of Delhi & the NCR.
Reckon Sehwag and McGrath get their stuff from here.
And so do I. That’s when I figure I back the Daredevils 60%.
Two Tees for Naked Cricket in the trial-room please.
Which one will it be? The match jersey that Sehwag wears with the Hero Honda logo or the cheaper one with no Hero.
Ok, here’s the math: 1st choice: 1299 less 40% = 779.40. 2nd choice: 899 less 40% =539.40
Man, even the prices sound like run rates.
The team jersey’s great, only that neck’s straight outta the maternity ward. Ok, so the players pull that back – right on, in goes the hairy beast.
And then the store manager gives me an ace sales pitch – a picture album of Sehwag at the store. Only he’s in a Daredevil jacket, and the adidas country head is in the Tee.
Anyway, I buy it. And the one with no Hero too.
But when it came to the cap there was a restraining order.
For the record, I will not buy the Knightriders at 60%.
