The Lonesome Road

Disclaimer : This post is more or less about cricket. Won’t make sense if you don’t follow it

Anyway, it seems that the moment we came back from the overhyped “Friendship” tour, our great Indian team went back to their old ways. We’ve gone back to the old, tried and tested method of playing as induviduals rather than a team.

There have been two tournaments we have played recently - and done badly in both. In the first tournament, we managed - I don’t know how - to reach the finals. And then we lost to Sri Lanka. I mean, why take all that effort to reach the final when all you plan to do there is lose tamely. Just gets the fans more riled. Exit early guys - then we don’t have to take time out to follow your matches.

The Indian team were playing England over the last week as part of the NatWest Trophy. It was a three match series. Well, we lost 2-1. The first match, our much vaunted batting line up collapsed for the score of 170. England cruised to victory by seven wickets. In match number 2, the Indian captain thought - well we might as well chase. Oh boy - did he get it wrong. England plied up 308. And once again - we came under pressure chasing. A run rateof over 6 an over is hard in any case - an explosive start is needed - but wickets must remain in hand to see the match through. But as Mr.Geoffery Boycott so aptly put it, we batted like millionaires and managed to lose this match as well.

Well, England were so relaxed now (they had won the series already), that they rested Andrew Flintoff for the final match in the series. This dude demolised us in the second match and picked up around five wickets totally in the first two matches. Thankfully, the team managed to do something right and won the final match.

Last year when this series was held, as far as I can remember, we beat England 2-1 and the Indian captain removed his shirt and waved it at the crowd. Looks like England managed to remove the Indian captain’s shirt this time. Well played.