Feb 6, 2006

Disappointment!

The past 2 weeks have been disappointing and frustrating to say the least, bureaucratic nonsense delays even the menial of tasks,,,, the system especially in countries like India has degraded to such an extent that I sometimes wonder how it actually works,,,, also
being an ardent sports lover, takes its toll, especially when none of your teams are doing well. I follow a lot of sports, soccer,hockey,basketball and most of all cricket. As with any sports fan, I have my favorite team in each of these sports, most being club teams, with the notable exception being cricket and as a billion fellow Indians, India is my team in cricket.
Team India the present and future:
India is visiting Pakistan for a 3 match test series, followed by 5 ODI's, the test series ended up in the Pakistani's favor 1-0, the Pakistani's winning the last test at Karachi, was extremely frustrating to watch as from a vantage point of 39-6 we threw away the match, the batsmen were blamed for not putting up a fight etc etc, but the crux of the issue is that India has a tooth less bowling attack, which at its best is not capable of bowling out even the mediocre of teams in world cricket. The only place our bowlers can bowl well, are on tailor made pitches in India. A billion people and not one genuine pace bowler, how pathetic is that?,people attribute it to flat pitches,lack of infrastructure,etc etc, well then howcome our neighbours produce fast bowlers a dime a dozen!I had commented on the new look indian side previously in this blog, the whole chappell-ganguly saga, and a young side in the making, i am an eternal optimist and will continue to believe that this side will eventually find its groove and start winning on a consistent basis, it is too harsh to judge a team with a failure in one series,,,, but that being said, unless we find alteast 2-3 quality bowlers,the team with all its batting talent will get nowhere.
All that said Pakistan deserved the win, they outbowled,outbatted and outfielded us!
News Flash:
First ODI, india lose by 7 runs, D/L method, was close but the game only went on to justify my point about the bowlers!

2 comments:

Amit said...
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Amit said...

Just chanced upon ur blog, totally agree with you that the Indian bowling attack lacks the teeth and the firepower to run through the opposition. And yes we did outplay the pakistani team in the fielding department.