13 March 2008

Cricket Ogle

A fan indicates where his support lies, India v Australia ODI series, Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad, October 4, 2007

I am a self-confessed neurotic fan of this sport:):)

I have been following this sport from the time of my childhood, if I am correct then from the past 15 years, but I have never stumble upon such a year in its record.

Yes, this year India was knocked out in the World Cup but later this year in which India won the first ever Twenty-twenty world cup. I am talking about the year 2007 so don’t confuse yourself.

We as supporters of this sport, have had a roller-coaster trip of passion, we mock them subsequent to the shocking exit from the world cup and illustrated honour and admiration when they won the T20 cup.

Let’s have a look up into 2007 team changes before world cup...

2007 started with Saurav Ganguly publicize his come back to the team with outstanding batting and good score against South Africa which reserved his hold in the World cup squad.

The team to West Indies had a lots of debut player in foreign land outside Asia few names are

v M.S Dhoni,

v Robin Uthappa,

v Shreeshant,

v Munaf Patel,

v Dinesh Kartik

The mature sheep’s in the company of Captain Rahul Dravid leading from the front.

But who possibly will have dreamed that India will be beaten to Bangladesh and bundle its bag in the first leg of the play-offs.

Well they faced terrible cost when they arrive at home since we all know how acutely we capture Cricket. Once the blame game going ahead it ruined with Greg Chappell’s resignation and shortly the heroes of yesteryear were made to seem like nil.

At last the Aussies bagged the top nobility making it three times in a row.

The World cup tragedy followed India’s tour to Bangladesh in which the Indian split them separately and take vengeance of the defeat of the world cup.

India subsequently played against England and South Africa, in which they showed some standard and managed to win test series aboard following a gap of more than 5 years.

September set the stage for the foremost ever twenty-twenty cricket world cup, which was a shorter edition of the sport and guaranteed a great cricketing experience. Not a single soul possibly will even envision in their deadliest dream that India could carry the credit.

The 20-20 cup was a greeting shock for the whole nation, initially no one expected India to set off so distant in the competition without senior players in the dressing room and pound Australia and South Africa.

But the young team brought it on and played like champions hammering Pakistan in a finishing game with remembrance.

This year focused an extraordinary revival of Cricketing bent in India’s arsenal. And the prospect gives the impression of being dazzling.

~~Cheers~~

No comments:

Post a Comment