Happy to start my new blog talking about Cricket, my favorite sport.
I had so many reasons to be eager for the India Vs Australia cricket series to start. Starting from Sachins 100th ton till the anticipation over winning the first series down under. Looking at the recent performances of the Aussies against SA & NZ, one would have thought this series would be the opportunity that we were looking for so many years to rule over the OZ nightmares.
But it was again proved that reality matters and what happened actually broke so many Indian cricket fans including me.
It was a known fact that the Indian team are slow starters when they tour out of the sub-continent and that was the talk going around when we lost the first test which I feel we had every chance of winning. The days which came after was expected to be heart warming but ended up heart breaking.
All of a sudden the failing Aussie batting seem to have gained a sudden confidence and the toothless bowling (that's how it was portrayed) got something to bite at. If someone was expecting the Indians to fight back in the second test, they just showed the back and no fight. It was a mere surrender and everyone had resigned from the winning idea or even from the idea to draw the test match. On the first day of the second test match when India folded to 191 the talks were only around the white wash. Lots of people said that was too early to write off, but the days came after seems to be on the way to 4-0 result.
Winning a test series down under is now out of the talk and discussion were around retaining Border-Gavaskar trophy until today. Seeing the pitch prepared at Perth, even the possibility of retaining the trophy looked slim however the Indian team insisted they are confident and have high hopes of turning things around.
It came the day it mattered, the first day of the Perth test. Until this day, the Aussies, at various instances had questioned the body language of the Indian team and have talked about how Indian team mentally goes down in tough situations. As expected, the players who represented the Indian team in various press meets denied their morale is down and kept insisting that they will bounce back on the bouncier pitch in the world.
The Indians showed today why the Aussies felt the Indian team is down and out. We clearly saw the Indian team had resigned from putting in any efforts to win a test match or even to draw. This time around, the Aussie bowlers showed us that they are hitting a dead snake. Eventually whatever did their bowlers do today, fetched them wickets and to make the matter worse, their opening stand had almost crossed the total first innings score what Indians could manage.
When people can talk about a white wash during the second match where Indians managed 191 runs in the first innings and ended up loosing, why can't they talk about it now where our team managed 30 runs less than their first innings score in Sydney.
David Warner, the Australian opener is 100% accurate in saying India already beaten. He had clearly killed them today by hitting the 4th fastest century in the test cricket. It was really amazing, on a pitch where he could score a humiliating fast century, none of our guys managed to reach a 50.
Being an ordinary fan who gets upset when India looses and gets excited when India wins, I wish the Indian Cricket Team, all the very best to try and draw this test match (which now needs a miracle and dramatic turn around)
See ya guys in the next post...
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