Well, What can you say about a team that has the world's best batsman, god on the offside and a batsman who bats like god ? No words to describe the greatness of such a team... Give them a challenge when they really need to apply themselves, fight it out and come out winners. Can they pull it off ? They showed us today that they cant. Accept the fact. We are chokers. We cannot withstand pressure. Laxman's innings of 281 was a miracle. Miracles wont happen often. We dont want miracles to happen everytime when India plays. We want real fighting cricket. I am okay with defeats. I know you win some and you lose some. But the way you lose is what pisses me off. Take the first day. 0-3 and 39-6... What better start you need ? Pak team should have been bundled out for a score less than 100. They end up making 245. Now that is what I call a fighting innings by Kamran. We replied with just 237. None of the top batsmen made a 50. Then they start their innings and toyed with the bowling making 599 leaving India 607 to win. I was of the hope that this team has in it to fight it out. I was expecting a draw. A loss after a fight would have satisfied me. But the team did not even last for 60 overs. We have one full day ahead of us. What is this team when a young guy like Yuvraj can stay there and score a century and the others could not even give him company ? Have not these guys played some of the best bowlers in the world ? Dont they know how and when to curb their instincts ? Well I also start to doubt the yardstick that we follow for different players. If Sourav does not play, the entire country is against him... But what abt Sachin ? Sourav gets out playing a needless pull of Razzaq in the first innings and Sachin gets bowled to a ball that kept low. So what..? At this level, the guys are expected to play. After all he is the best batsman in the world... If he cant, Well he is not then....
What am I doing ? Why the rant ? This is gonna get me nothing.. Will this loss make me stubborn enough not to follow cricket at all ? No.. The one day series is gonna start and I am going to follow the entire series... coz I am a crazy Indian Cricket fan.... Damn it...
Go to Hell !!!
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They are just another bunch of over-paid under-performing professionals. They have absolutely no incentive to perform at their very best - win or lose, as you have pointed out, the crazy cricket fans are going to follow the sport anyway. Not even the ugly betting scandals has done much to improve the lot of other sports in the country.
Until the time we realize that cricket is not the only sport, and these cricketers are not demi-gods, just professionals, and until the time we realize that they do not deserve the time and attention that we shower on them, we are bound to live with such pathetic results.
A bunch of overpaid underperforming professionals. True in many sense. But the craze for this game is so much in me that when the next series starts, I will sit and follow the same at every ball level. Shame on me.
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