Saturday night, M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore: Hardik Pandya is bowling the last over against Bangladesh. All eyes are on him.
Saturday night, Jodhpur Gardens, Calcutta: One pair of eyes has a special something in them as they stare fixedly at the screen. Oh no... oh no... oh yes... oh yes... OH YES!!!
Saturday night, M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore: Hardik Pandya lets out a roar, leaps for the stars and becomes a nation's heart-throb.
Saturday night, Jodhpur Gardens, Calcutta: One heart is throbbing like no other. Yes, He has done it! She can't wait to speak to Him!
Who is She?
Lisha Sharma, 21. One of the most prominent faces on the Calcutta ramp today. Till now, you've seen her on the t2 pages - yes, she's one of our favourite models - but now the country will know her as 22-year-old Hardik Pandya's "good friend".
Is she a Calcutta girl?
Lisha is a Jamshedpur girl who has made Calcutta home for the last six years.
What's the Hardik-Lisha story till now?
They have known each other for a year, after meeting through common friends. Hardik Himanshu Pandya, the Gujarati all-rounder who has caught the imagination of a cricket-crazy country has since been spotted with Lisha in Calcutta shopping at Quest mall (think, Armani) and dining at The Hub in Taj Bengal.
The cricket world now knows him as the great Indian hope. What does Lisha know Hardik as?
"A gem of a person. Chivalrous. Very grounded. Calm. Perfect."
So are they friends, or...?
"Abhi friend hi theek hai!" laughed Lisha, when Metro met the Capricornian at her Jodhpur Gardens home on Thursday evening.
But isn't he the suitable boy?
A giggle and a laugh later: "See, the whole of India wants to date him. So, obviously, he is dating material!" Is that a yorker or a bouncer?
What's she doing apart from cheering for Hardik these days?
The 5'10" model - Hardik towers above her at over 6 feet - Lisha has walked for the biggies in the fashion business. Manish Malhotra and Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Wendell Rodricks and Anamika Khanna... and yes, she is the face of Quest campaigns.
"I am the first one in my family to take up modelling as a profession. I was very confident and believed in myself. Just be yourself and the world will adjust," is her credo. Quite like Hardik's 'I am like that only' attitude on the cricket field that has won him many fans. And yes, she has set her sights on Bollywood, and a certain Aditya Chopra. "I am total filmi!" laughed Lisha, a Ranveer Singh fan.
Hardik too has a Ranveer Singh connect...
He loves dancing, smiled Lisha, and is Ranveer Singh-type cool on the dance floor. His man in Bolly, though, is Akshay Kumar.
So what do we know about Hardik, from Lisha, that the world does not?
He can survive on Strawberry Smoothie and Chicken Biryani.
Finally, did Lisha get to speak to Hardik after he bowled India to that famous win?
Yes, she did, very late at night. And was he going bonkers? "No, he was so very calm. That's the thing I like about him. In the last over he was smiling, so I asked him, 'Tum smile kaise kar rahe thhe?' He said if he felt the pressure at that point then the pressure would have shot up!"
Howzzat!
