Cricketing Blues!

Now that India has won the Twenty20 not to mention World Cup, everybody is damn sure these boys can 'get em and beat em' (anybody) under the sun. Even if you are an Australian they will beat them black and blue. These past days we have been celebrating the victory and even as I walk down the road I hear people talking about how proud they have made us, they have changed the whole perception of what cricket was thought and etc...

Even with the India-Australia series coming up, we are quite confident that our boys in blue will emerge as winners. Yeah right! Now with Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly we will surely clinch the title. I say why even bring them back? Why not let them retire peacefully let them get about with their own stuff? We have fresh energy, that you can literally feel adrenaline pumping through your own veins. Sourav is okay but why the other two? C'mon don't give me the stupid reason that well they are more experienced players and all that...we don't need their experience what we need is willing to take the chance, plunge into it and enjoy the game of cricket fully. Not a couple of hillie billies who stand there wasting balls and not having the balls to actually take the challenge. At least the new team proved it at Twenty20 that even if wickets start falling we actually don't cling onto one person and not play...We fight and fight with all our might! That's the change that was seriously refreshing.

But the next thing I dread to think is...what if we...what if we lose!? Will we be singing the same praises as we are doing today...coz that day we will be burning posters, effigies and God knows what else..perhaps threaten the cricketer's family or stand outside their house and humiliate them! Its okay if they lose, coz if they put up a tough fight like they put when they were playing the recent games then thats fine. At least in our heart of hearts we will know they tried, they fought but they could'nt conquer.

For now, all I can say is All the Best to our Indian Team...hope they conquer the Kangaroos and yea God give some strength to Tendulkar and Dravid. Naahhh..Sourav does not need it! Remember he's the Bengal Tiger....