By Trisha Ghosal
I’m writing this from Kolkata. It’s cloudy here today. The kind of cloud that doesn’t pour, doesn’t thunder—but just waits. It waits with a silence that screams louder than any cheer. And somehow, I feel like the sky knows. That we, the RCB fans, have been waiting too. For 18 long years.
Tonight, in Ahmedabad, Royal Challengers Bangalore will walk out onto the Narendra Modi Stadium, our warriors in red, one step away from a dream that’s eluded us time and again. A dream we’ve chased across generations of legends, from Rahul Dravid to Virat Kohli, from heartbreaks in Johannesburg to tears in Hyderabad. And now, perhaps… to glory in Ahmedabad?
This season, RCB haven’t just played cricket, they’ve written a symphony. Seven away games. Seven wins. Nine Player of the Match awards. Every game, someone new has stood up. There’s no one-man army here. This team has bled together, believed together, battled together. They’ve barely put a foot wrong.
But all of it, every miracle, every roar, every choke of joy in our throats, it all comes down to this one game. This one night.
As a journalist, I’m immersed in numbers, previews, balance sheets of performance. I write build-ups, cut reels, line up stats. That’s my job. But as a fan, my heartbeat isn’t calm enough to sync with any script.
I’m not in Bengaluru tonight. I’m not in Ahmedabad. I’m in my hometown, behind a screen. But inside me, a stadium full of emotions is erupting. There’s hope, unreasonably loud. There’s fear, quiet but firm. There’s excitement like a rising tide and anxiety that makes the hours feel like days.
How do you describe what 18 years without a trophy feels like? It feels like sitting on the edge of forever. It feels like waiting for a storm that might never come, or might just sweep everything away.
But tonight, we believe. Because this team has made us believe again. So as I sit here under a clouded Kolkata sky, I’m not just watching. I’m breathing every ball. I’m living every over. Because if there is a story to be written tonight, let it be the one where RCB finally becomes champions.
Let this be the one.
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