As an always optimistic, die-hard Indian cricket fan I am hurt and disappointed by the sudden turn of events on the fourth day in Cape Town, which led to this heart breaking series loss vs SA. A lack of killer instict is not a new thing but what is more disheartening is that the practice of giving it all away when the moment is ours is back again.
It is a no-brainer that when the series has to be decided by one good batting performance it is the senior members in the side that need to put their hands up. In India's case, the senior-most, batting legends.. so to say, froze like chickens and were demonstrated what it means to be positive by people who have less than 50 tests to show amongst themselves.
There will be post-mortems galore and people will still go on and say that it was a valiant fight by India especially after an utterly forgettable and dismal one-day series. There will be things said that both teams were evenly matched and no one even thought that India would stick up to South Africa and they gave them a very tough fight.
For what its worth(it wont even be worth scraps probably) I seriously think that if we perform to our abilities ( that has never happened and probably never will) we are a better team than South Africa any given day of the year. I think that we lost the series 1-2 rather than SA winning it 2-1.We got to be ashamed of abject surrender in Durban and Cape Town and some heads need to roll and rightly so.
Rahul Dravid said that the guys showed a lot of character even though the result didn't go their way. I respectfully disagree !
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It doesn't hurt as much...maybe signs of waning interests are surfacing. It could very much happen that couple of years down the line I wouldn't care less. The retirement of Warne hurt more frankly speaking...there I said it...shoot me.
You may just be right Balls.. I think that Warne and Langer leaving the game hurt more emotionally but this loss was more hurt due to disgust than anything else. We have tickets to the World Cup and we are selling it off..so I couldn't agree more with you on the waning interests point.
I completely agree Aup & Balls. Interest is waning in the sport - for me at least. To be honest, I figured that we would loose the test series because the high just never goes on. If we had drawn the first and second I would say that we had a chance to win it.
Anyways - you guys selling the tickets?? Thats shocking, you should go, even if we loose - it will be a fantastic outing - you will regret not going later. UNLESS OF COURSE - you guys are planning on making a butt load of money on the tickets and then using it to go watch FOOTBALL in england. A manu game maybe?? Tell me ok?
Jhadiye.. what does "loose" mean..its "lose". India jaake angreji bhool gaya kya. Yeah we are planning to sell the tickets and make a butt load of money..ur guess is spot on !
Ahhh!!! I must be losing eet!!!! Now I an wondering if I spelt losing it incorrectly.
Meh!! Mush!!! So when do I see yu next!!
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