Falling Short

I don't approve of T20 to be a great test of an individual or a team strength , so i wouldn't have felt if the Indians didn't win the cup ..heck i would have even not worried were they knocked out in the super eights..but the manner in which they went down disappoints me ...they have been technically found-out and it was frustrating to watch that such talented youngsters couldn't even rectify their one single flaw even on the second chance...windies have brought back memoirs of ganguly(remember those countless short-pitched balls he received for over a year ages ago) ..their failure against windies could have been pardoned cos they banged the balls in suddenly and swiftly, but with England(with much slower bowlers) they should have definitively rectified that ,becos failures for a batsmen are acceptable but not on similar deliveries,this not only cost them the game but probably their cricketing future (when such talent like" raina" cant handle a short ball it really worries) ..also i find dhoni to be too defensive in his captaincy (sending yuvraj too late out of fear, and inexperienced jadeja up) along with his batting(which has become unsuitable even for tests),only consolation was bowlers have not been worked out by any team....final word loss in T20 is not a big thing(at least for me) , but unless the batsmen strengthen technically India are under a real threat in the tougher forms of the game....

Life is not stranger than fiction.....

Here i am overcoming months of laziness to finally post supposedly a valid article.Cricket and cinema are probably two things in India that everyone is capable of criticizing , in other terms everyone is allowed to criticize...so here i am following that safe path(if anyone by chance reads this please bear those typos)
i am a die-hard mumbai fan and was a strict rajasthan hater at first....but somehow the team suddenly earned my admiration.....this was probably a result of myself pondering about them after my sleep was robbed away by munaf patel (still amazes me how did he just gave one run in the ultimate over, he wouldn't even do that in a test match)...they are such an interesting side that i have deiced to post about them first in spite of being a mumbai supporter, these are some inferences i made out of their victories

Films like laggan, rocky and all those baseball , basketball flicks that Hollywood churns out always amazed me....because what they advocate is years of experience that a champion has can easily be knocked off by a hard working rookie ,plus some motivational bla-bla stuff(achieved in Hollywood by means of a lengthy speech, songs hither)....they look nice on screen but really are impossible practically ..............

And it has been proved that experience rocks many times...some compare India's victory (@june25 1983)to something like lagaan but tats really not a credible comparison cos the windies were having many players on the verge of retirement ,plus India also defeated them in the group stage..........
But i think rajasthan's achievements in both seasons of indicate more substantially that such philosophy is plausible ... IMO its more evident this year(2009 season) than their championship last time.....it may sound crazy(considered the fact that they made the lowest score in IPL) but look at the troubles they had, to start they were robbed off Watson(400 runs 10+wickets last time) &almost every "match- winner" is stripped the next game (kamran khan, amit singh)...but still they just mange against all-odds ..which clearly indicates that you can win with almost any side just out of pure will power& hard work ....

also in cinema that underdog always triumphs with a miracle i.e. a six of the last ball, a three pointer with zero seconds, a knock-out in the last round..this is where really cinema & sport tend to diverge...but yet rajasthan strangely have scripted success in such dramatic fashion mostly (6 runs to win with dada still at the crease and yet they pull out a tie, score 17 of the last over, bowl out mumbai with 4 runs to win)...and also they comeback quite cinematic (58 against rcb vs 200+ against kings) ....IMO this really makes their triumph sort of " life imitating art" stuff..



by the time i post this they would have lost to Delhi, but yet they will still be probably the side with best team spirit in IPL ....cheers to Warne for running a team that reminds us this