Not out says the Umpire!!

Yes, hard but true!! India lost the opportunity to get into Super 8s. They have shattered the hopes of too many Indian fans, infact crazy Indian fans. I believe many prayers for the Indian cricket team have gone for nothing. All the wishes sent from the billion populated nation has gone worthless. The Indian cricket "role models" have not performed their "role". All the above stated statements are tautologies.

As an Indian cricket fan, I would still hope for India to get the world cup, if not this time, atleast in the years to come. It really doesn't make sense when people fume our cricketers house when they have not performed in the world cup matches. As cricket fans, we need to back them up and encourage them to perform better, or atleast never criticize them. Everyday atleast 15% of the internet bandwidth goes for criticizing the Indian cricket team. Forwards which mock Indian cricket team, an April Fool mail stating Indian team has reached Super 8s, finding sarcastic reasons for Indian team losing against Srilanka and many others are going to belittle our Indian players confidence and in no way is going to boost them up or pat them up for the next world cup.

When a kid fails, it is the responsibility of the parents to cheer up the kid and get the kid up and growing rather than just beating the kid asking for why the kid shattered the parents dreams. After-all cricket is another sport and it has to be treated as a sport. After all it is a matter of 100 overs and nothing remains after that. Sports are always meant to be as a part of entertainment and never meant to demolish things. Please stop criticizing our Indian (wounded) cricketers!!

Will this coincidence be converted to an incident?

World Cup 2007, the "War of the Cricketing Nations". After having lost to Bangladesh and enjoying an emphatic victory over the minnows Bermuda, Can India continue on going forward to win the world cup 2007? Here are some interesting coincidences!!

1. Captain of India in 1983 was Kapil Dev and now in 2007 is Rahul Dravid - Both the captains have their second name starting with the same character 'D'
2. The captain of India before 1983 was Sunil Gavaskar and the captain of India before 2007 world cup was Sourav Ganguly - Both the x-Captains have their first characters of their names the same 'SG'
3. Both the players Sunil Gavaskar and Sourav Ganguly open the Indian innings when they played for the world cup in 1983 and 2007 respectively
4. After world cup 1983, the next world cup was played in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and similarly World cup 2011 would be played at India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
5. Prince Charles got married in 1981, exactly 2 years before India won the world cup. Now again he got married in 2005, exactly 2 years before 2007 world cup.
6. Australia lost the Ashes cup before 1983 world cup. Similarly Australia lost the ashes cup before 2007 world cup.

So will India win? In 1983 India stopped West Indies becoming a hat-trick world cup champions. Will India stop Australia from becoming a hat-trick world cup champions in 2007?

Lull before Storm or Storm before Lull!!

The Blue Bees have flew to W'indies to play the most expected World Cup 2007. India, a strong team (?) as the Blue Billions call it, have the most exciting and a capable lineup. The most experienced/exciting batsman of the century S R Tendulkar, one of the best orthodox batsman Rahul Dravid, The Bengal Tiger Sourav, the most dangerous opener Sehwag and an over-match Hero Dhoni and the list goes on. Having such a beautiful line up, it still keeps everyone wondering why really did India lose against the upcoming cricketers of Bangladesh. Is that because of their sluggishness or over-confidence or their defensive stance. Infact this is a mixture of all of them. But more than this, I would attribute the loss to the most expecting Indian cricket craziers. In India, cricket is not just a sport, instead cricket is a religion. More the amount of craziness, more is the pressure on the Indian Legends. Having so much pressure it is always an expected outcome to lose the simplest of matches.

India has never had the greatest of starts in the recent world cups. They are always expected to lose in their first match and following it, it is customery that the Indian Crickets Fans, blow up our Indian Cricketers residents. Expectations becomes Demands for the Indian cricket team and there is where they perform the best, LULL before STORM, a perfect example India Vs Bermuda. All the players stormed in to pile up such a record score of 413/5. Now having reached the STORM part of it, will it go back to LULL soon. We need to have our eyes open on the 23rd of March 2007 when India meets the SriLankans.

Hopefully the Lull to Storm doesn't go back to Lull soon.