Million Dollar Cry Babies

P.S.: Dedicated to all my friends in the Media/Media related fields. Of course...“Nothing personal".... :)

First of all, let us all clear our minds of the “web of deceit and lies" that the so called “responsible media” has been feeding us for long now.Let us look through our own eyes for a change and not through the shaded lens that media creates for us to see through.

It was not a “grudge” series as the media has labelled it and one thing is certain that whatsoever may have been outcome of the series, India certainly has not lost its “honour and pride” as we are being made to experience.

If pride and honour were so whimsical a thing to be lost when our cricket team was defeated or when “Mahatma Gandhi’s forgotten memorabilia” sent under the hammer for auction by a “foreigner”, then we would not have had any pride left in us.

But yes, the truth is plain and simple. A full strength, first choice (barring Zahir Khan), Indian Cricket attack came a cropper against a depleted yet resolute Australian cricket team.
And what do we get as excuses.Some crap about the pitch and all.Let us stop a while and take stock of things in our team.

"Blaming the moisture of the Guwahati air or the vaastu of the Rajiv Gandhi stadium at Hyderabad or for that matter accusing the Pakistan team of " match-fixing " to throw India out of the Champions Trophy, won’t help."

The kangaroos certainly showed us why they were and still are the Number 1 team in the world for so long. And we, take pride in the fact that “ we also were the number 1 “ team in the world for 1-2 days and call ourselves the "heir apparent" of the Aussie team.

We won the World Cup ...long long years ago in 1983 and still gloat about it as if it is the ultimate in sporting glory.Look at the Aussies.They have been World Champion in cricket for over 10 years now both in terms if success in the world cup and the true form of cricket " the test cricket".

To win in cricket, more than “natural talent", " flair" and " prodigious skill" , that we have so much in abundance in our players , one teeny-weeny important thing more necessary than all these combined is " commitment and mental strength", which unfortunately we ignore and that very aspect comes to us as our doom.

What gross misconceptions we have and the faster we come out our “little utopian world”, the better it is for Indian Cricket.More than that, there is something, something fundamentally wrong with the way in which we think of cricket or our triumphs.

Are we so starved of sporting glory that any small victory by the cricket team means the world to us and we measure "national pride and honour" by it.