Didn't I tell you in my previous blog(http://houstonvijai.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/03/we-will-be-back-back-with-vigor-and-vengeance.htm) we will be back and back with vigor and vengeance. I think they heard us. Heard our countrymen cry for a good showcase. They didn't fail us, atleast this time..
What a splendid, spectacular innings by Indians? It not only created the marks in the world cup history but also given a big alarm and threat signal for SL's. This might even play against by wakening the wild side of SL to perform well on Friday. I can already hear some scaristic comments already that we can only make this kinda of score with minnow teams like Bermuda which no one can easily spot in the map.
There is always somebody to complain and comment about everything our team does. We really went mad at them on the way they played last saturday but we never lost our confidence against them. They came back up to prove that they will try to make our dreams come true. Whatever it may be nobody can change what had happened. Great Innings and unbeatable total marked the books of the World cup history.
What a splendid, spectacular innings by Indians? It not only created the marks in the world cup history but also given a big alarm and threat signal for SL's. This might even play against by wakening the wild side of SL to perform well on Friday. I can already hear some scaristic comments already that we can only make this kinda of score with minnow teams like Bermuda which no one can easily spot in the map.
There is always somebody to complain and comment about everything our team does. We really went mad at them on the way they played last saturday but we never lost our confidence against them. They came back up to prove that they will try to make our dreams come true. Whatever it may be nobody can change what had happened. Great Innings and unbeatable total marked the books of the World cup history.
I really saw the total sulekha forum went wild tracking the himalaya score. Everybody starts to share their joy with different posting on the world record. Its a good time to cherish. Its a great team effort and good decision made by the captain(atleast this time he thought of something better).
Uttapa seems to be the scapegoat this time. He had a good chance to shine but didn't materialize it.. If we can give second chance for sehwag, we sure definitely can give you one more chance, hold on Uttapa :-)
A very good partnership for the 2nd wicket. Ganguly did struggle a lot but got the act together finally after his 50 and smashed some good sixers. He has lots of dot balls in the first half of is innings which got compensated by the sixers on the next half. He gave a good standin for sehwag. Sehwag did play a good innings to prove that his skippers believe didn't go in vain. :::I would root for W.I.: :what's going on with this match ?! : never checked this one yet. Good variety of shots to score 114 of 87 balls including 17 4's and 3 6's. We hope to see this continue through the innings..
The change of positions to send Dhoni next played to maintain the RR was a good decision. He didn't play is natural game but try to rotate the strike to give Ganguly more to bat. Expected some flying shots by ended with a mere 29. Next comes Yuvi. I expected our WALL(Dravid) to walk down but another surprise to see Yuvi. He played an outstanding matured innings with lots of SIXERS. Next comes Sachin to the field. I even forgot that he is still there. It was not his usual game but he played a real sensible cricket to keep the run ticking and rotating the strikes with Yuvi.
It was a great knock by Yuvi scoring 83 or 46 balls with 7 6's and 4 4's. I was hoping to see the fastest century in this world cup but it proved to be too greedy at this time. He should have contained himself and stayed for another 2overs. Then comes Dravid. Just gave strike to Sachin and at the last ball hit SIX which is really fantastic.. Good finish by the captain.
All-in-all a great show putup by our Indian team. It made history in all aspect. Highest score, Highest number of SIXERS etc.,
Being said all that and getting carried away with this record and praising our boys innings, India still has lot of work to do. If we can play with this confidence, vigor, determination and aggressiveness. We can sure to beat SL and then cross our fingers and pray for the SL/BL to fail. First thing first, we just need to get that job done by defeating SL with a good margin and wait for other things to fall in place.
Worst case - Calculations are on :
If we win SL - India - 4 points
If Sl win BL - SL - 4 points
If BL wins Bermuda - BL - 4points.
All team will have equal points and RR comes to play. This match should give us a boost in the rate. We should be able get to Super 8 convincingly if BL and SL fail in their matches or rain spoils to give us advantages or we have to watch out for their low RR's.
We always digged deep hole to ourselves and get to a tense moment like this one and tried to get out of it. Its not new for us. We never entered convincingly to super 8 one time but we always made it there. So like anything country men, I am also hoping we will make it this time too..
Lets cherish this wonderful and start worrying about the other permutation & combinations later.. Any thoughts about the other options in the calculation ?!
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We just won Bermuda by 257 runs and that is the highest margin of win in terms of runs in ODIs.
There is still lot to worry about our bowling and Captiancy. Can we fight against SL with this bowling which doesn't have power and aggressivenes.We should have bowled them out long back. We got 8 wickets and couldn't finish the last 2 wkts tail enders. Is it worries yo uand gives sign to other teams that our bowling loses strenght.
Why dravid wants to keep trying Agarkar if he is expensive ? Why can't he try Sachin earlier ? Why he didn't try Ganguly. Lots of questions to be answered..
Lets hope he sort out these questions and get ready for the big one yet to come..
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