Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Men In Blue....... overhyped ?!?!


This is in response to some of the articles i have seen in recent past which in a way have tried to address the issue of over hyped Indian cricket team's win Down Under.
Cmon guys, this aint any normal victory!! Look at what happened in the test series-the much hyped..Border-Gavaskar trophy,what we were left with is some bad cricket by our players at the end of 1st test and some horrendous umpiring decisions in the second test,ever seen a third umpire making a mistake which even the commentators could'nt make ??
The saga continued in the 3rd test as well but we won !! The fourth ended in a well fought draw.
The simplest inference every person could draw from this series is - the series victory for Australia was not totally deserving.
Now the comments galore!! .. Harbhajan vs Symonds , Hayden vs Harbhajan, Ishant vs Symonds.As summed up by Dhoni, the Aussies had turned these kind of incidents into an art and that India would need to catch up.
Now coming to the CB series.Where was Srilanka in the series anyways??? Of course it did give India a few jitters for the final spot. The whole of CB series was like waiting for the finals of the cup and watch another major clash of the titans!
Now after all this ,a 2-0 whitewash to sum it all up.Sachin not just helping India win as usual but actually taking them through was another highlight.The extradorniary performances of Ishant,Gambhir,new boy-Praveen Kumar also were deservingly given credit by the media
Dont you think this deserved the kind of backing the media has given to our "men in blue"? This has generated such an aura around our players ....like "The Untouchables" . I personally feel that, although media for its own reasons has ignited these duels Down Under has rightfully given our players their due.This talk about media blowing the issue out of proportion is worthless.Let us join the celebration of cricket,the sweet victory down under which traditionally has left us bad memories,except perhaps the '87 series starring Ravi Shastri.

1 comment:

AVINASH said...

chocolate boy... welcome to blogging....