We have never seen Indian team more helpless in recent time. I have sure seen bad times in cricket but have never felt worse. Team gets out on mare 200, while opposition scores 700 and keeps on going, you have left all hopes of getting a wicket, an edge goes to slip and you drop it, you just can't believe that you might have had a chance to get the batsman out. Opposition keeps on piling and finally they decide to get you a chance to get hands to bat. The one batsman you had high hopes from, who you thought could get things turn around for you, gets a king pair (out on 1st ball in both innings).
I am sure things would have been much worse for cricketers who are actually on fields feeling this. But I am talking about an Indian fan over here. When you lost first test, we said, we are gonna bounce back. We always lose first test. In Second test, you have got 124/8 opposition, and you go on and lose the test by around 400 runs. Well, a lot of fans might have given up hope even then but there are few like me, who think "well tough things happen, we are gonna bounce back". We Indian fans keep on watching every ball, every day hoping we will see a brilliant delivery who will get the opposition batsman, which never really came up. We Indian fans can see our bowlers getting hit across grounds all over, after all we aren't a world class bowling attack. However we can't see our star batsman getting king pair when team desperately needs them to score, we can't see a Tendulkar, a Laxman, a Raina playing a shot which they won't be proud of on seeing replays. That just hurts.
Well, we lose heart, we criticize team, we criticize BCCI for not giving players any rest. We swear to ourselves not to watch a cricket match ever again in future, only to find ourselves stuck to TV next time, when again we win a series/match we love cricket like anything.
I am sure things would have been much worse for cricketers who are actually on fields feeling this. But I am talking about an Indian fan over here. When you lost first test, we said, we are gonna bounce back. We always lose first test. In Second test, you have got 124/8 opposition, and you go on and lose the test by around 400 runs. Well, a lot of fans might have given up hope even then but there are few like me, who think "well tough things happen, we are gonna bounce back". We Indian fans keep on watching every ball, every day hoping we will see a brilliant delivery who will get the opposition batsman, which never really came up. We Indian fans can see our bowlers getting hit across grounds all over, after all we aren't a world class bowling attack. However we can't see our star batsman getting king pair when team desperately needs them to score, we can't see a Tendulkar, a Laxman, a Raina playing a shot which they won't be proud of on seeing replays. That just hurts.
Well, we lose heart, we criticize team, we criticize BCCI for not giving players any rest. We swear to ourselves not to watch a cricket match ever again in future, only to find ourselves stuck to TV next time, when again we win a series/match we love cricket like anything.
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