India’s end in the race to the World Cup ’07 had been a major setback for the Indian cricket fans. But this doesn’t mean that we should start burning their homes or we should start troubling their family members. I don’t know if anyone will agree to me if I say that I always believe that our players try to give their best on the field. Although they performed very badly this time.
Not only us but the players also know that they were unable to match the whole country’s expectations. Believe me they all must be very disappointed too with their performance.
Indiatimes reports:
When Tendulkar cried
ANTIGUA, March 26: Team India is set to return home but most players have yet to recover from the sight of Sachin Tendulkar openly shedding tears after the loss to Sri Lanka on Friday.
Tendulkar had tears streaming down his cheeks after Munaf Patel was caught on the squareleg fence by Chaminda Vaas. It brought to end India's disastrous chase of Sri Lanka's reasonable target and more or less shut them out of the 2007 World Cup.
Tendulkar, who had contributed nothing to India's chase earlier in the day, being clean bowled by Dilhara Fernando, first tried to control his emotions but unable to do so, locked himself in the bathroom lest he made a spectacle of self in the public.
A couple of junior cricketers in the side were so taken aback by the sight that they themselves started to cry.
It's little secret that Tendulkar desperately wanted to do well in this World Cup and be a part of the winning team. The "little master" in his glorious career more or less achieved everything he set out to do, but his World Cup dream is unlikely to be realized now.
Young fast bowler S Sreesanth's emotions got better of him as he too broke into tears. He was consoled by close friend Robin Utthapa, who on his part was so nervous and upset that he kept drinking cups of coffee. Sreesanth just couldn't stop crying and kept saying: "Why God did this to us?"
While Tendulkar and Sreesanth gave vent to their emotions, fast bowler Zaheer Khan broke a chair in the dressing room. After making a spectacular comeback to the Indian team, Zaheer's colleagues said that he was desperate to make amends from the last World Cup final where he let his adrenalin get better of him.
Rahul Dravid, by all accounts, was himself tearful while Sourav Ganguly, behind his glasses, sat stunned on his seat.
Coach Greg Chappell had given up on the team during the match. As soon as Mahendra Singh Dhoni was out, going back and finding himself plumb in front to Muthiah Muralitharan, he got up and switched off the television.
As far as he was concerned, there was little else to see.
His vision and work of past 18 months had come crashing down in a matter of a week.
2 comments:
quite an emotional post there... recently heard ricky pointing say that India did't deserve to be in the super 8's ... well what i could concurr was that India didn't look mentally prepared for the world cup, and we made real bad selections didnt take kumble for lanka's match, should have taken pathan or srisanth instead of agarkar ...anyways atleast now on they will be more accountable to the country n the sponsors
hmm....quite true..nobody likes to losse intentionally...yup we as indians r vry emotional ppl...we tak everythg on to our heart if we can die for someone we dont step bak to kill the same person if they ditch us......thats the complexcity of indians......first they make cricketers god and then we as there fans might to harm them if they dont perform....extreme of any behaviour is somethg nt acceptable.....i dont defend indian team for their bad performance.....bt then they r also humans.......and nothg is perfect and sweet all teh time.....there is always another chancve.......
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