Aaya Raam Gayaa Raam
I paid the penalty twice for not sleeping on Saturday night (IST) - watching Indian team to perform pathetically (I had seldom used such highly toned down refined word to express my extreme anger) all-round in the match, and a good round of verbal beating from my mom for spoiling her health as well mine, as I was all along disturbing her sleep by inadvertently smuttering angry words and waking her up now and then.
What had let down the team? In one word its the conceit. The conceit that was running high in the heads of everyone in the Indian cricket team. I felt that conceit was very evident during the Indian fielding inning. On the one hand you perform poorly with ball right from over one, and on the other hand you are totally lethargic and assume that you can control a better team at the last over? I don't want to add any suffixes like "-of-the-day" to "better team". Bangladesh is indeed a better team in this WC than India. With their performance, if they maintain it, Bangla team sure can reach the semis.
In the beginning of the match, based on the history, Dravid and/or coach might have rated the Bangladesh team to be very inferior and hence, perhaps as a learning step (or should I use their word and say experimentation?) chose to bat even after winning the toss in such a pitch. It was a gamble. One can argue for either case -- support the risk taken by Dravid (or) say that you have not played a single match hence it is unworthy to take such a risk at that juncture. But now that the risk is taken and India batted first and battered well by a disciplined TEAM. To me I don't blame much on the overall team score. I have my share of abusive words for Shewag, Dhoni et al. Still it is a competitive score especially against lesser experienced Banglas. I don't believe the worthless-justifying-statement (sappakkattu) by dravid that we fell short of about 30 runs. Boy! with such a pathetic performance with ball (bowling as well as fielding) you would have squarely lost the match even if it were 300+ scored by the bat. If India cannot contain a team, which is perceived inferior, within 190 runs (given the fact that the trend of 220 being a very competitve score to defend so far in the WC) how can you expect to be qualified for playing WC league matches? It is very sad to note that even after this thumping defeat the team was not honest in identifying/admiting its weakness with ball as the culprit.
I feel very sorry for Pakistani bowlers, for, if their batsmen had scored the same 190+ the current pakistani bowlers would have brought their team to victory in defending that score on that same day. Probably their fielding would have undone in such case a hypothetic case. But still Pakistan was looking a better team with the ball on that day.
Jaya tv had started a pre-match and post-match one hour each show with the veteran Venkataraghavan. The sad part is that this show is deviced only during the matches that India play (not even considered for Semi-finals and finals if India doesn't play). I was very much looking forward to see that show and its analysis and prefer it to any other channels's frill-filled diatribes. So the life of this show is going to be only 2 more days thats all. I liked the no frill, simple, straight-forward at the same time measured way of talking of Shri. Venkataraghavan. Really I am going to miss this series. To listen to Venkat's analyses and statements I can very much stand blabbers of Abhisheik. Abhisheik, the "anchor" of this Jaya TV show, needs to do a lot of home work otherwise its better he stick to his homeground -- mega serials. Abhisheik doesn't seem to be knowing the difference between billey bowden and tuffnel and more pathetic was the way he tried to cover it up like a loser. On the otherhand, Mohan Ram yet another TV actor who was the guest on that show shared a lot of information about Venkat.
So, I have to say the third loss is not-going-to-see-Venkat. hmm...lemme wipe off my running nose.
Now let us get back the "aayaraam gayaaraam" title from Indian coalation political parties and hand it to a more able body, Indian cricket team.
uh..aah India...Aayaaa Aayaaa India...vaapas aayaa Indiaaaa...
What had let down the team? In one word its the conceit. The conceit that was running high in the heads of everyone in the Indian cricket team. I felt that conceit was very evident during the Indian fielding inning. On the one hand you perform poorly with ball right from over one, and on the other hand you are totally lethargic and assume that you can control a better team at the last over? I don't want to add any suffixes like "-of-the-day" to "better team". Bangladesh is indeed a better team in this WC than India. With their performance, if they maintain it, Bangla team sure can reach the semis.
In the beginning of the match, based on the history, Dravid and/or coach might have rated the Bangladesh team to be very inferior and hence, perhaps as a learning step (or should I use their word and say experimentation?) chose to bat even after winning the toss in such a pitch. It was a gamble. One can argue for either case -- support the risk taken by Dravid (or) say that you have not played a single match hence it is unworthy to take such a risk at that juncture. But now that the risk is taken and India batted first and battered well by a disciplined TEAM. To me I don't blame much on the overall team score. I have my share of abusive words for Shewag, Dhoni et al. Still it is a competitive score especially against lesser experienced Banglas. I don't believe the worthless-justifying-statement (sappakkattu) by dravid that we fell short of about 30 runs. Boy! with such a pathetic performance with ball (bowling as well as fielding) you would have squarely lost the match even if it were 300+ scored by the bat. If India cannot contain a team, which is perceived inferior, within 190 runs (given the fact that the trend of 220 being a very competitve score to defend so far in the WC) how can you expect to be qualified for playing WC league matches? It is very sad to note that even after this thumping defeat the team was not honest in identifying/admiting its weakness with ball as the culprit.
I feel very sorry for Pakistani bowlers, for, if their batsmen had scored the same 190+ the current pakistani bowlers would have brought their team to victory in defending that score on that same day. Probably their fielding would have undone in such case a hypothetic case. But still Pakistan was looking a better team with the ball on that day.
Jaya tv had started a pre-match and post-match one hour each show with the veteran Venkataraghavan. The sad part is that this show is deviced only during the matches that India play (not even considered for Semi-finals and finals if India doesn't play). I was very much looking forward to see that show and its analysis and prefer it to any other channels's frill-filled diatribes. So the life of this show is going to be only 2 more days thats all. I liked the no frill, simple, straight-forward at the same time measured way of talking of Shri. Venkataraghavan. Really I am going to miss this series. To listen to Venkat's analyses and statements I can very much stand blabbers of Abhisheik. Abhisheik, the "anchor" of this Jaya TV show, needs to do a lot of home work otherwise its better he stick to his homeground -- mega serials. Abhisheik doesn't seem to be knowing the difference between billey bowden and tuffnel and more pathetic was the way he tried to cover it up like a loser. On the otherhand, Mohan Ram yet another TV actor who was the guest on that show shared a lot of information about Venkat.
So, I have to say the third loss is not-going-to-see-Venkat. hmm...lemme wipe off my running nose.
Now let us get back the "aayaraam gayaaraam" title from Indian coalation political parties and hand it to a more able body, Indian cricket team.
uh..aah India...Aayaaa Aayaaa India...vaapas aayaa Indiaaaa...
posted by Kupps at 2:58 AM
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