Retire in Style :-P

Its better that all the senior players in our side retire when they are in prime form. I know that none of our senior players are even in a reasonably good form. I have a suggestion to make here. This suggestion when incorporated will help our senior players get back their golden touch. The suggestion is nothing but bring teams like Bermuda, Zimbabwe, Kenya to our home soil. Make them play against our team. These matches will make the our players look like the best players in the world(atleast they can make up as if they are the best). The seniors should then call it a day after these matches. They can easily announce that they would like to retire when they are in prime form and that they would like to see the youngsters performing for the team.

Welcome Exit

I dont know what made me write about Bangladesh in my previous blog. I never expected, for that fact noone had expected that Bangladesh would hand over the same treatment to us like what they did to NZ. It was pathetic seeing the Men in Blue perform in the middle. It was like a fashion show, with each and every member of the team coming and going back in a jiffy. Ganguly though not in prime form took the pain of staying in the middle and gathering some runs for the team.

The next match against Bermuda was a cakewalk for Team India. Atleast there should be one team like this, else we can never create records like what we did against Bermuda. Virender Sehwag made a mincemeat of the Bermudan attack and informed the team that they should not expect him to score for the next few years. After all he has scored against Bermuda and now nobody can question about his presence in the team.

The next match against Sri Lanka was a do-or-die match for the Indians. But it seemed that the Indians were more interested in joining their pakistani counterparts. Dravid, it seems has asked Inzy to wait for them, so that they could go home together.

It was heart breaking watching India perform against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. And I dont have a strong heart to see India perform the same way in the coming matches. Thankfully India is now not into Super 8's and I could spend some time on my work instead of pondering about India's performance.

Indians were not thrown out of the world cup by their opponents. They threw themselves out of the league. And we should appreciate our team for this particular collective team effort. Long live the Indian team.

I would not be complaining if our men had fought till the end, but they never seemed to take the charge to their opponents. Winning is not important, but making the opposition fight for their win is more important. Indians never seemed to understand this.

Their exit in this world cup is a welcome one. They have saved the lives for plenty of fans who could not have tolerated if India had performed the same way in the semis or finals...

Shocking win for Bangladesh

With less than a week left for the world cup to start, Bangladesh has made everyone sit back and take note of them. Yes, it was a crushing defeat for the Black Caps in the warm up game. The confidence of the Bangladesh team will definitely be soaring now. Though it would not be affecting the kiwis to a greater extent, they certainly would have never expected this after their 3-0 win against the Aussies.

Our own Men in Blue started of their world cup campaign in style by thrashing the Dutch team by a huge victory margin of 182 runs. Thanks to Sachin, Rahul and Yuvraj. The only saving grace for the Dutch was the performance of ten Doeschate who nailed 5 of the wickets that fell for India. Sehwag once again failed to impress us with his performance. He was expected to spend some time in the middle and get back his lost touch. Lets pray that he strikes back in time and guide our team to world cup victory that's been eluding us for the last 24 yrs.

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