WheN HE NearlY SilenceD OnE AnD AlL
Fingers Crossed…. Bladder ready to burst…. Legs and Bum cramped! I sat through 40+ overs just so the curse of my short attention span would hopefully, fail to strike again.
The Curse:
"It’s happened before. Whenever India is batting and I drift away, do something else…. The moment I am back a wicket falls. The first ball I watch is a wicket. It has happened umpteen times…. Even my roomies have started to believe it…. They once locked me in my room and we actually won from a precarious situation…."
So I walked into the Office breakout area for a game of Fuzball, and guess what…. Swashbuckling Sehwag throws his wicket away as soon as I enter. I carried on to play Fuzball having no hopes of an Indian Victory today…. With all the shouting I was tempted to have a look in between games… Gambhir Gone! Am I a curse or what….
That had to be it.
I sat my arse down on what seemed like a comfy couch.
I was soon taken back to the 90’s. Sachin dancing down the track, lofting pacers and spinners alike, straight down the ground.
Oh how much I missed that in the years gone by, and how thrilled was I to see him thrash aussies again, a decade since the Sharjah slaughter.
At the fall of Dhoni’s wicket, I thought to myself. "Same Ol’ Story. A fighting Tendulkar and the 10 pins that is the rest of the Indian Team". But Raina’s first six revived my hopes.
By the time the score was 300, I was ready to pee in a bottle. But I didn’t want to jinx the Jewel of cricket. So while Sachin displayed controlled aggression, i exercised bladder control.
But Alas! What a shame. Lost by 3 runs.
Tendulkar did not deserve this result.
You may want to argue that he did not finish the game for us.
Well had Praveen Kumar been at the non-strikers instead of the pathetic namesake i.e. Jadeja, I guess Tendulkar would have played a more sensible shot. It’s all about support you Dimwit Critics.
I don’t feel sorry that India lost. We have done it so many times. Victory is there for the taking, but givers that we are, we gift it away to the opponents.
I feel sorry for Sachin. When one guy scores half the teams score, you need the rest to at least cumulatively score the other half.
That is why Australia win. Everyone contributes.
You can’t blame Tendulkar for not finishing matches.
The many match winning knocks he has played, he has had to do it single handedly. No Support whatsoever.
If the innings is of the magnitude that Tendulkar played, we need at least 2 supporting knocks. What hurts more is not the effort that’s gone in vain, but the criticism dished out to a player who gives his 100% each time. Even a 50 is considered a mediocre performance from him. Such are the expectations from him.
Anyway, I ain’t no cricket pundit. But when I hear someone criticize someone unduly I can’t help defend the person.
Specially if it is Sachin Tendulkar.
There are just 2 sportsmen i really admire.
1) Sachin Tendulkar (Cricket)
2) Kimi Raikkonen (Formula 1)
Both Superstars and geniuses in their field, yet criticized severely by idiots.
Well we all know what Sachin has to endure.
Now Raikonnen as well has had more than a fair share of bad luck, which by critics has been accounted in his Skill Analysis. Boo Hoo.
In my book, the 2003 and 2005 F1 Championship was Raikonnen’s.
2005 undisputedly. The only reason Alonso won in 2005 was because on 4 occasions, Raikonnen was forced to retire from the lead
due to technical failure, and in 4 of those races Alonso went on the Win. Not to forget, there were many other technical retirements.
In all of his career he has had to retire 38% of the time because the car gives up on him. His true Talent he displayed this year, by driving a Crap of a Ferrari-F60 on to the podium so many times and even Winning a race, while his team-mates were struggling to finish second last.
What pressure these guys have to endure.
I only pray and hope that God rewards Sachin with a World Cup Victory to his name. He will not survive till the 2015 WC. SO it has to be 2011. In India. Wouldn’t that be swell?
As for Kimi, hope Mclaren sign him and give him a reliable car and a one he can contest with for victories.
Cheers to you 2 for now and beyond!
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