Men in Blue in their own backyard
31/03/2005
Finally I have a blog and this is the place where I can write what is going through my head.
Cricket being my favorite subject , so I am starting with a blog on Cricket.
This blog is written after India lost to Pakistan in Bangalore (3rd Test, Mar.2005)
We all know that in our Cricket-crazy country ,the performance of the Indian cricket team affects the mood swings of the entire nation. Whenever our cricket team is doing well and winning the matches , we Indians tends to feel so good , all of a sudden feeling of "proud to be an Indian" is all around us and everything around us becomes so good. Where as a bad performance or a defeat can ruin the entire week and things starts to look gloomy in a matter of minutes.
In this light, the defeat by the hands of Pakistan was particularly distressing. Its not only the fact, that we went down, but the manner in which we went down which was particularly heart wrenching. We have got the best batting line-up in the world ( ..on paper atleast..) and still we were unable to play out those 96 overs . It is a pity indeed. Lots of things have been said about the performance of our captain Ganguly and that he is the person responsible for the Indian defeat.
But in my opinion , its the attitude and the intend to win , what was missing on that particular day. Shot makers such as Sachin,Gambhir,Laxman played out of their character and in the pursuit of playing slowly and defensively lost their wickets and India lost the match.
90% of the cricket-followers will be cursing Indian team at the moment , but I can assure you one thing that 99% of them will be watching the match on Saturday , gluing to their respective TV sets and will be enjoying this beautiful game "Cricket".The thing is that memory of cricket-crazy Indians is very short and they (we) tends to forget the bad performances by the Indian team in a very short span of time.
God Bless All
Finally I have a blog and this is the place where I can write what is going through my head.
Cricket being my favorite subject , so I am starting with a blog on Cricket.
This blog is written after India lost to Pakistan in Bangalore (3rd Test, Mar.2005)
We all know that in our Cricket-crazy country ,the performance of the Indian cricket team affects the mood swings of the entire nation. Whenever our cricket team is doing well and winning the matches , we Indians tends to feel so good , all of a sudden feeling of "proud to be an Indian" is all around us and everything around us becomes so good. Where as a bad performance or a defeat can ruin the entire week and things starts to look gloomy in a matter of minutes.
In this light, the defeat by the hands of Pakistan was particularly distressing. Its not only the fact, that we went down, but the manner in which we went down which was particularly heart wrenching. We have got the best batting line-up in the world ( ..on paper atleast..) and still we were unable to play out those 96 overs . It is a pity indeed. Lots of things have been said about the performance of our captain Ganguly and that he is the person responsible for the Indian defeat.
But in my opinion , its the attitude and the intend to win , what was missing on that particular day. Shot makers such as Sachin,Gambhir,Laxman played out of their character and in the pursuit of playing slowly and defensively lost their wickets and India lost the match.
90% of the cricket-followers will be cursing Indian team at the moment , but I can assure you one thing that 99% of them will be watching the match on Saturday , gluing to their respective TV sets and will be enjoying this beautiful game "Cricket".The thing is that memory of cricket-crazy Indians is very short and they (we) tends to forget the bad performances by the Indian team in a very short span of time.
God Bless All
posted by bharatb @ 2:45 AM
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