India In The Midst Of Another Marvellous Series!

The colors changed from white to blue but India's Batting Blues continued!

So much for pre-match hype and the rhetoric that went with it. The second ball of the match had the Sri Lankans dancing, the Indians crying and most importantly most of us students glued to the headphones of our dear mobile phones cursing , screeching and abusing all at the same time. On top of it many of these innocent spectators (albeit only through the Ears) were expected to pay attention in their lectures or perform a dumb experiment in their labs. After all Gautam Gambhir had his stumps scuttled and India's ONLY BATSMAN had fallen. Sorry, I just made a statistical error. There is ONE MORE BATSMAN in the Indian Team but he has conveniently twisted his ankle and is now out of the series! I am referring to Sehwag and not the original Master Blaster as the latter has currently forgotten how to bat! (And has a different injury)

Yuvraj Singh had gone on record saying that he is confident of achieving success against the spinners. Be it Mendis or Murali he was going to clonk them over the ropes. He was talking sense but he just forgot to mention the duration of his stay on the wicket. He proved his worth by scoring a blazing 23 and then falling like a loser to his nemesis-Ajantha! If he takes a break from his prime purpose of life i.e. wooing bollywood beauties who ultimately don't give him a damn; and instead concentrates on his cricket then maybe that eternal boorish smug on his face will have a valid reason.

Now coming to India's captain-Dhoni saab apka jawab nahi. This guy is the most diplomatic person in Indian Cricket. His comment before the series, and I quote, "The Test Series Loss should not be blamed on the Seniors", was a very witty comment. After all his team consisting of the Young Brigade was going to do equally bad if not worse! Sachin ko gaali dene se kya matlab jab Dhoni saab khudh itna achha perform karne waale the! He almost got a hundred but was only 94 runs short!

The most interesting event took place in the dressing rooms between the two innings! After India had toiled to reach three figures and post a imposing target of 147 in 50 overs, Mahela Jayawardena made an offer to Dhoni. He asked Dhoni if India was willing to concede the match at that point of time. Because there seemed to him no point to continue the play as everyone knew which captain was going to walk up to the host first during the presentation ceremony. Anyways everyone knows who is winning when opponents are India and Sri Lanka have Mendis in their 11. The real reason was he didn't want to miss his favourite serial on TV. It is probably the Sri Lankan version of our own K serials and has a repeat tellycast in the afternoon.

But then the veteran and the true sportsman, aka Marauda Bomber-Jayasuriya came and started scolding Mahela for tarnishing the spirit of the game! He accused Mahela of underestimating the Indians and also tarnishing the image of Sri Lankans as true sportsmen. He said that Mahela had brought shame on Sri Lankan Cricket by even suggesting this.

He had a different offer. A novel and respectful solution which would give India a fair chance! He offered to bat Right Handed! Yes u read right, Sanath said that he would go out in the middle and bat Right Handed so that the match would last another 30 overs atleast or else it would have ended by over number 15 itself. At this point someone from the Indian team corrected him and said that because Shreesanth was not playing the match would have ended in 20 and not 15 overs. Sanath just smiled!

Well bottomline - India Lost! Haha! Looking on the positive side, Sri Lanka took 35 overs (Sanath was not allowed to be generous) and the margin was 8 and not 10 wickets! India started this tour on no.2 position in International Rankings, but looks like they are going to end up at no.7!

I have stopped watching these fracases and I hope many will follow suit! This will save a lot of Electricity as the T.V.'s will be switched off!

Bbye and do leave your comments!