Weather God smiles, Kochi turns delirious

Kochi, Oct 2: With the weather God smiling down in the form of bright sun shine, it is a full house at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium for the second of the seven match Future Cup ODI between India and Australia here today.

Young starry eyed cricket fans, yearning to see their favourite stars, especially the home-bred Team India pacer S Sreeshanth, went delirious waving the Tricolour and having it painted on their faces.

They thronged the stadium early to get the right spot in the galleries. They had been praying that they would get to watch the Indian and Aussie stars, espeically the former in the wake of Team India's Twenty 20 world cup triumph.

''There is tremedous response for the match due to India's T20 world cup triumph'', former Kerala player P K Balachadran, one of the convenors on the organising committee for the match and in charge of players amenities told UNI