Well, I guess you learned your lesson today morning. Yeah!! "YOU", because I learned the same lesson before (Indian cricket team can never make it in WC) when I was a kid. I was 11 and I was crazy about cricket. My favourite player was Ajay Jadeja. It’s the First Semi-Final between Srilanka VS India 1996 WC.
After my day at school’s over, I ran to a house nearby and asked for the score "Srilanka 60/4 (numbers am not sure but first three wickets were taken by srinath < 30 runs)" was the reply. Since I was with lot of hopes I couldn’t wait to get to home. I stuck on to the television without food or water. My intuition was, India will make it to the finals and azzu bhai will raise the CUP with a great honour (come on!!! I was just a kid.). But Lanka’ns played with determination and asusual Indians couldn’t control them(actually, ‘anything’) and they went all the way for 250. At break, had our dinner and we (me, bro,dad and two more dad’s friends) were back to watch the match.
First blow, Sidhu was out when the score was < 10. Then it seemed "OK" when tendu and manjrekar was playing. "Yeah !! they will make it. It’s just 250+. We have azzu bhai, jadeja, Kambli….. ", those were my thoughts. When tendulkar was out the score board showed it was 98.
Then it began the legendary "Indian cycle stand batting (ONLY indians can do it)", one by one they will come and they will go, can’t stay in the crease, can’t bat, can’t face neither a ball nor the bowler and yes!! "the great expression", as if they tried a lot but it was just a miracle that they got out (After all!! they are great at acting. Remember sachin’s latest ad "aaaoooooooowwww!!! kya kaata yaar ??").
Anyway, I looked at the TV it’s 120/8, I couldn’t believe it, it’s just like a bad dream, but, there’s a hope still inside me. Bengali’s know what’s gonna happen and they stopped the match. I was mad at them for years but now I know why they did it. I was left heart-broken in the room alone, mad at every member of the team and on srilanka’ns. You believe it or not, I didn’t watch cricket for the next 3 years. I absolutely had no idea about anything, like who’s the captain, who are the best players, what are sachin scores in the latest matches etc, etc… which I used to remember before.
Well, 1999 was another wonderful world-cup, thanks to the team for coming back at super six level. I felt nothing when they couldn’t make it to third round. Because, it’s fixed in my mind that our players are losers and they can never make it(bringing the world cup)come true.
2003 I gotto say, is the best world cup I have ever watched. I was in jail (read "hostel") and the only fun was that world cup. Ofcourse, final was yet another disaster but I made through it because disasters were not new for us. (Week end Eamcet model papers never made 130+ and every paper used to be a disaster, it’s nostalgic, hmmm )
2007 - the year with many lessons for me. When it comes to cricket it’s the routine boring lesson(don’t hope that india will win). I actually made a list of things that we can predict.
1) If it’s important match … sachin makes < 10(for sure 99%, 1% for a miracle, ha ha I believe in GOD, afterall), legennnnnnnnndary "cycle stand batting" activates, the only chance is a newbie or some bowler bats well and brings home the victory and he’s the HERO for that match and for the rest of the season and expect him in many of the ADs while watchin movies and serials on TV. Ohh !!! and sachin’s "surprise rather say shockin" or "a sorry" expression on his face while goin back to pavilion and we will loose for sure (100% expect no miracles here).
Captain’s statement "boys played well, but pitch is bad or bowlers are bowling fast or dhoni has missed his afternoon glass of milk and ofcourse our hero missed his "sixer" buscuit." ,….. LOSERS!!!!
2) If it’s a booku (Telugu ppl know abt this word…. read useless or shit) match… sehwag will make a great score or a least (DUCK). Can’t predict him actually its 50-50. Sachin rises as master blaster onto the adversary. DADA routine defence like a old man (Slow and steady wins the race. F**k you loser). Dravid the wall. Performance will be great from the team.
Captain’s statement "boys really played great.. we have a great batting line up, we do ads and we also make matches, and yes we will bring world cup (You brought us us sry ASS)"……
Indian Cricket Team :::: A bunch of losers who took billion people’s hopes with them and brought nothing but their stupid pale faces.
They ain’t MIB’s, WE (Rest of the INDIANs) are. We are the "men in ‘BLUE’ (sad)".