Team India, or India??
Well... hate to say this... don't may be want to talk abt this again... but yeah... i guess it is obvious.. and it is something, which I believe should have happened at some point of time... we neither had a bunch of world beaters, nor we had a team with attitude to win.... Yes... I guess, one thing that is very important to play any game is to have the attitude to win.. to take victories in their own stride and give them the importance they deserve. Having experienced this myself in a very simple intra IIT environment, I can clearly and safely make this argument.... I want to make this more of a diary entry than a blog site, coz it is more of my feelings, something that I feel is very important to document, in what ever relevant format possible... can't put an IEEE paper for this, can I? :P anyways, on a much more serious note... the team we had was a bunch of novice players... we had one experienced man, who did play for the insti, but the other 12 were novices... a lot of new comers... and some wounded men from previous battles.... The crux of the matter is a combination of these two is a very good combination.... redundancy at its best... or you might say I am short of words... but there is another point I'd like to emphasize here and that the word of the day is combination... yes.. you need a combination... combination of winners.... combination of men with attitude... combination of wounded men and young blood.... Winning the World Cup needs determination, attitude, killer-instinct and mental fitness besides the physical fitness and cricketing skills... well... yeah... team India lacked in this... but Bangladesh had it... so they won... and we lost... now what else can one argue about... But Is this going to affect any of us? Well... I dont think so... and I think it shouldn't... ppl burning houses... breaking walls of Dhoni... are we civilized men or what? Oooh India, come on... rise up.... let us be matured country... let us support these men... they, who gave it their best on the field more than once... they who have always had this pressure of a billion men on them... those billion men, who wanted team India to do well in the world cup... that country, which enjoys the country's victory... now that must also share the grief... we must also support these men.... some of them who are perhaps playing their last world cup... a very sad end, perhaps to their glorious careers... still remember as a child seeing Kumble bowl the windies out in the HERO cup final to win us a series at home... remember as a teenager Ganguly come down the track to smash pollock over point for a six... remember warne dancing to tendulkar's wishes at Sharjah... a 40 ball 84 for tendulkar in the first match as an opener, a player who has never looked back after that innings of his... they indeed need support... and its our job to support them... not to be selfish... one may say, they play for BCCI, played all this while for some bucks that was based on their contracts.... but yeah... more than those bucks... it was the motivation... of the 1 billion ppl.. that kept them going... i think we r overreating on this issue may be because we give much importance to this game. If u remember even france has to faced first round exit in last to last world cup. so its a game and we should take this defeat in professional manner. and one very important thing that we always forget to do is 'introspect'. we should try to learn from it.. then only we can survive in long... quoted from rediff this by a very sensible cricket fan... and truly in a very few words said well... so... i shall call it a day here... and lets hope Team India learns its lessons atleast by the time the next world cup comes to the sub-continent.. and hoping to have finished my PhD too by then.. :D :D
posted by ASHWIN KRISHNAN @ 7:41 PM
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