WC 2003. We had a dream. Ponting had a bigger dream.
WC 2007. We had a dream. We woke up too soon.
Yesterday we crashed out of the world cup. We might still make it if Bermuda beat Bangla - but we rather not make it that way. We are out.
While I was quite ok with the Bangladesh loss - we were surprised and they did play quite well, the match against Lanka was a disaster. 255 was chaseable through the strategy of batting out 50. Did not happen and thus ended the World Cup for Team India. And in all probabilities the last WC match for Sachin, Ganguly and Dravid. The big 3 have bowed out of the cup with only one man having put up a fight. Sure Sachin got a ripper of a ball - but this was one match where he shouldnt have been ripped. Dada - I dont know what the hell he was thinking. Yuvraj ???
*Sigh* Its all ended in a heap. Now we will witness old unsuccesful fat players play the sharp critic, news channels will have a field day and the players will be generally made to believe they shouldnt have been born.
Dravid will probably lose captaincy. Greg will go. Maybe Uthappa will have signed a resignation letter with his shot. All this desirable? Maybe not. Any other option? Sadly sanity will not prevail.
Lets just remember that the players are humans too. They did not want to lose either. They are breadwinners for their families (sure the bread is made of gold but that shouldnt matter). They have a right to make millions from Advertisements. If they do not perform - the market forces will take care of that. We have no right to grudge them their earnings. They dont get paid taxpayers money. The MPs and MLAs do. Do we ransack their houses when they get caught for scams or dont work?
Dreams do get shattered every now and then. But its always the pursuit of the next dream that eggs us on.
Cheers
Pushkar
A Team India loyalist
Shaken, stirred but still a loyalist.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
The end of a dream.
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I think the news channels have gone truly overboard with their over-reactions to this ousting from the World Cup. Alright, we got thrashed but heavens, this is supposed to be just a game.
I suspect all 4 of them have to go - Saurav, Sachin, Rahul and Anil - they are not what India wants and needs in 4 years time. But I just hope they do not leave together - if they do or are indeed forced to, then maybe we need to give our younger players a fair amount of time - maybe even a year or so to start learning for themselves how to win games.
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