How can a great team like India get eliminated due to one unfornuate bad match? A few dedicated key players scoring 0s or single digits? A excellent set of fielders dropping a few catches? The strongest batting line-up not chasing 254 runs in a do or die match?
With so many achievements if a team gets eliminated the format must be wrong.
Hopefully they will realise the mistake and change the format to keep the highly committed team like India in the game.
So the bottomline is, keep watching cricket while killing all the local sports in your area!
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by Raman on Mar 28, 2007 01:45 AM Permalink
What do you guys mean one match,what about all those matches that we lost before the WCUP,are we like AUS to have won everything in sight? What about the match against LANKA?Did we beat them and were narrowly kicked out by Bangladesh? So what do you expect,Bangladesh to make way to Indai despite winning 2 matches to Indias 1,that too agains the WORLDS strongest team BERMUDA?
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by Harinder Toor on Mar 28, 2007 02:06 AM Permalink
Anir, I sort of sence sarcasm in your post. If sarcasm, I will laugh along you, but if you really mean it, I will laugh AT you.
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by Harinder Toor on Mar 28, 2007 02:07 AM Permalink
I meant, **I sence a bit of sarcasm in your post ** instead of I soft of sence sarcasm.. my bad sorry but yeh you get the point
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by anir garud on Mar 28, 2007 02:15 AM Permalink
Hey Harinder, It's all sarcasm and nothing else. Which team is giving this kind of ridiculous excuse?
My larger point is, Cricket has wiped out money from lot of local sports. It's time Indians and India media seriously encourages those sports. Just one sport and that too played with set of commercial junkies is not a very healthy sporting scenario for a people of 1.1 billion.
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by Harinder Toor on Mar 28, 2007 02:31 AM Permalink
true.. and the other day i had someone talk to me in person who said well look at china.. their population is larger than ours but they dont play cricket.. and a third person in the conversation responded, what about all the "golds" china wins during the olympics.. If an indian wins a 'bronze', they will be treated as gods. Its not so much the players that are to be blamed but its the media, the politics, the people that treat the players as gods. Leave it as a sport and play it with discipline and I am sure you will see positive results sooner than later. Cheers!
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by Raman on Mar 28, 2007 03:13 AM Permalink
As per you what makes India a great team,how many ODI tournaments have we won with the so called Great Batting line up,please tell me that
