India and Pakistan... Two of the favourites for the World Cup, have now become 'favourites' for the World cup !! No one would have imagined that Ireland would oust Pakistan, and send them packing - But that's what they exactly did ! They dismissed PAK for a paltry total, and then sealed a win with a six off the last ball that they faced !! Pakistan is no longer in the tournament, and it seems there's more to their team than just a bad day out in the field... Centered around controversies and 'injuries', they seem to be losing a lot of shine, despite having probably the BEST middle-order line-up in the world today !
India... The land of a billion cheerleaders, as they say, were literally thrashed by their neighbours on Saturday. Dravid won the toss, and elected to bat, on a pitch which he 'thought' would help the batsmen to score big ! Probably he was trying to compete with South Africa, who set records rolling yesterday, but only to forget that they need to win the match in the first place... But anyways, his team did set a lot of records rolling :)) No batsman seemed to be comfortable against a new-looking Bangladeshi attack ! Only Ganguly and to an extent Yuvraj looked comfortable enough, but Ganguly proved to be very very slow. It seemed more of a tedious knock, than a resilient one. Despite a pathetic start, when they were crawling at 157/4, we might have thought of a total close to 220 - Which would atleast give them something to bowl at. But our ever-so-experienced line-up had other thoughts in mind - They decided to lost the next 5 wickets for a mere TWO runs ! Gosh... Isn't that lovely, condidering the already bad start they had received ?
People said that we have players who've scored more number of runs than any other player in the world, the total matches played by our players is more than any other team competing in this tournament, we have players who have loads of experience with fourteen-thousand-something and ten-thousand-something runs behind their belt... But the expert forgot a simple thing - That experience doesn't really count in cricket unless you have the passion to perform ! And that passion could be seen in the fighting Bangladeshi tigers...
Seems that almost every player in the team only plays now to save his position in the side, rather than to do a job he's actually sent out there to do... He'll earn a name for himself in the advertising world, you see.. Otherwise, how do you expect him to do more ADs ?!?! A selection in the India team is way beyond a matter or pride now... It's all about money, honey :) The Indian Cricket Board would be the most disappointed with their defeat against Bangladesh... Naaah ! Not because they did not perform well, but because probably now they might have to spend some extra money to get India into the Super Eight... Well, just kidding... But, you never know ;))
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