As the night of 14th June was closing in, the Indian cricket fans were watching their team fighting against a possible exit from the Twenty20 world cup. In the end the cricket team lost the battle and are now out of the tournament.
Now, starts the real story with critics rising again to do what they know best, not to forget media bashing and fans losing their cool. I agree Indian team did not play up to its potential, controversies off the field, strategies backfiring did not help their cause either. And during such times of adversities its the captain who has to bear the brunt, this time its no exception. Now the fun starts, so, I returned back from office and inquisitively switched on the T.V to see the progress of bashing and there it was, one of the news channel running an SMS contest asking viewers if we should forgive Dhoni or not(as though he has left us without any livelihood)? I did not see any such contest asking if we should give tickets to candidates with criminal records during elections.
Wouldn't that have been much more critical and detrimental to Indians? Anyways coming back to the contest, so the result was along the expected lines with the "NO" bar graph standing tall at 72% rising high on emotional fuel and looking down at the "YES" graph standing at a meagre 28%. That was the fans' verdict but I feel this question of forgiving popped because the man himself MSD apologized through the media. How many cricket captains before have done that for even shoddier performances than yesterday?
With this series, alright the world cup all past efforts of this team and Dhoni have been erased off from the public memory. The defeat in this world cup is over weighing the 2007 world cup victory, triumphs on Australian soil, the ever eluding New Zealand series. More important than all these victories it was the new emerging Indian team with refreshing approach towards the game and playing 'fearless' brand of cricket. The flag bearer of this radical change was none other than Mahendra Singh Dhoni. To my surprise some even opined that anyone of Yuvi, Zaheer or Bhajji should be the next T20 captain to which Ajay Jadeja replied that MSD's worst is still better than the above players' best day simply because he is experienced now and tasted success in different countries and different form of the games and I felt he made sense.
Well so much about India's defeat as a fan I would like to support them during this time and wish them all the best for next match and coming series. Although I know what I will get in tomorrow's newspaper, it will be some more "bashing".
The next T20 world cup is in about 9 months time in the Carribbean.
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well said..!
ReplyDeleteok alright - i gotta admit you sure developed the art of laying golden eggs via words ;).
ReplyDeleteI agree with your stand but also hold an opinion that a a 72% bashing is justified just to keep the Indian Team and MSD aware of the fact that they represent over 1 billion of people which is largest among any cricket playing country(any genre) not to mention the prosperity of BCCI - this would make them feel that they have responsiblity and they just cant afford to lose and thats the only reason we have the largest fan base of any game compared to cricket. You know a kind of canning we used(or should i say i was bright and it was only you :-)) to get to keep ourselves on right track when we were going through the maverick mindset of teen age.
good job!