Its Over!!!
So World Cup '07 is over for India almost as soon as it began. Well at least the hopes were killed right in the beginning so was saved a lot of time in the later stages.
Was watching the news coverage regarding it the next morning and there was a scanning shot of the Indian players in the dressing room when the last rites were being carried out in the field. It started with Dravid, went to Sehwag, and then to Sachin. All were morose but Sachin's expression somehow made me feel sorry over the event. Yes, sorry. He had made a Royal Duck when India in a veri critical match. But his eyes were very wide, sad, his fingers twitching in the air, his face conveying a deep sense of gloom and ... in all of it, there was also an expression of hope against hope which was making him keep looking on the field wide eyed and all, trying to concentrate and feel and find any flicker of resurgence or a turnaround by the tail batting on the field. I am very angry with the performance!!! But this image of the players is going to haunt me for some time.
Well what can one say. He was 'ONCE' a great player. The very fact that he is not a great player anymore is that for the past one full year he has been consistently getting out in a similar fashion -inside edge onto the stumps - to all the bowlers around the world. If he was still the same great player, then he should have already sorted it out.
By the way, one of my colleagues had in the morning said that Chapell should go to the field with his baggage packed so that in case India is ejected, he can save his life and go to the airport directly from the stadium to catch a flight to Australia. He and Dravid have brought about the downfall since they took over and they have to take most of the blame.
Another thought is that maybe there would be some underhand dealing between the commercially interested parties and Bangladesh cricket establishment to make them loose against Bermuda. There is so much money at stake here, and I am just talking legal money, that if India get ejected along with Pakistan at this preliminary stage, then a lot of commercial loss will take place. I am sticking my neck out. If this result comes true in the next match then you know where you read it first.
