Ignominious, humiliating, debasing and many words which i am not able to put are the reflection of the trauma through which we all Indians went through last night after watching the death of Indian Cricket against the Bangladesh. This can happen and happen only to Team India that vaunts about her famed batting line up to the last limit.
The Wall, Mr. Dependable and Mr. Cool did some very horrible errors in the Match. On a pitch that favoured movement to bowling Dravid chose to bat first and this error is the beginning of many errors to come. Prince of Kolkata and Nawab of Nazafgarh opened Indias inning and Sehwag opened his gate to welcome Robin Utthapa who chose to offer his wicket by offering a lolly to Bangladesh. Sourav continued with his current form he adapted his game to the pitch and played a sheet anchor role but Sachin and Rahul got out at wrong time. Yuvraj supported Ganguly and they both played to make a platform for a good score. India was 133/4 in 40 overs. In the next three overs Sourav and Yuvraj scored some good fours and India was well poised at 154/4 in 42 overs and we were hoping about 220 but unfortunately for India both got out in quick succession followed by their ardent followers with Dhoni, Agarkar and Harbhajan all scoring ducks and score was 159/9 in 45 overs. Munaf and Zaheer fought hard to gave india some decency.
I failed to decipher why Dravid came to bat at 5th position why not at number 3. Still the score 191 was not too less. I was quite hopeful about Indias win.
Bangladesh started and started well with Shahriar Nafees firing and firing like hell. Agarkar and Harbhajan failed to take a single wicket combine together while spinner like Mohammad Rafique was able to take wickets of Dravid, Ganguly and Dhoni. Dravid started the procession of bad fielding by dropping a catch in the start of inning followed by Dhoni dropping a lollly, Utthapa dropped 2 catches and harbhajan followed the path shown by his captain by dropping a catch. Mahendra Singh Dhoni was seen smiling after dropping a lolly what an act, that simply showed the his non seriousness. Well i dont think that any Cricketer reserves a right to play with the feelings of millions and millions of Indian fans. Again a blunder was done by Dravid by giving a ball to Yuvraj not to Sehwag and when Sehwag got a chance he got 2 wickets but the time was over. I was shocked by this ludicrous defeat still have some hope left about our chances in the Cup.
Ireland gave the same to Pakistan.
In the memory of Indian Cricket that died on 18th March at Trininad&Tobago, Port Of Spain. May the soul of Indian cricket rest in peace.
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