Australia and India become rivals
The relationship between the Indian and Australian cricketers are becoming more and more serious with the ODI series. There have been many disputes between the two teams during the game also. I would say it is the fault of both the teams and not for a signle team. Shanthakumaran Sreesanth has been showing extra aggressive in the game of gentlemen. Also there have been many cases of war-of mouths among the players of India and Astralia.
Recently in the last match, Pathan and Andrew Symonds were having some exchange of words. I know a pathan is a cool guys and he will not involve in such activities unless he is true and the argue os meaningful. Andrew Symonds said that Indian cricketers are like God in the country, they are giving many facilities and also a huge amount of salary. I guess Pathan was angered over the saying of the Andrew.
And now the Australian team says that they will look India in their field and bowlers days that they will attempt only the heads. Now the match will become more competitive and interesting with the disputes within the match. But is not suitable with the gentleman’s games like cricket. Now lets see what happen in the next match in Australia. Wait and see wait they will do in the match between Australia and India.
Finally India Won
It looks like India won the whole ODI series. I am talking about today’s match only. But it was spectacular match between India and Australia in the 6th match of ODI series. Something wrong happened in the match. Either Australian batsmen not played good in today’s match or India did good bowling and fielding. Australia made only 193 runs in the first inning. I do not believe that Australia makes that much low score sometimes. Normally they score above 250 in 50 overs but today it was about to stop in 150.
The bating of India was even unexpected. As the score of Australia was low enough, I expected that they must have gain some confidence and they will win the match very easily but it turned out to be false. India became in the situation that I can’t believe that they won the match. It was 64 runs only for 6 wickets. It was a huge fall of wickets and I lost hope of winning after this. But somehow bowlers of India did great performance in bating also. Zaheer Khan scored more than 35 with a very amazing six in Brat Lee’s ball.
Again a new Steroid case
Doping and steroid cases are very common in athletic and football. I have come across many stories of doping and taking steroids since my childhood. In football I heard for the first time in the Maradona’s case of taking steroids. Taking steroids helps the players to generate short term energy and stamina to the body. Now I heard a fresh case of steroid for the China’s top female triathlete, Wang Hongai. She has been banned for taking steroids for two years and with this she will miss the Beijing Olympics of 2008. It is unfortunate that she will miss the Olympic even if it is happening in her home ground.
She was formerly banned by the International Triathlon Union after becoming positive in the steroid test. This is the highest nation’s doping profile just after the Sun Yingjie who is the long distance runner. In both A and B samples Wang recorded positive for exogenous metabolites of testosterone. But the question is the banning of Wang will affect her team or mot? It is the personal problem of using steroid and not the problem of the team as a whole. It should impact on the personal career only and not to the team as a whole.
ODI Series- A tragic for India
After the winning of Twenty 20 World Cup, India goes back to the bad performance in the ODI series with Australia. Australia has been winning all the matches of the series except a single match. It looks like Australia is taking revenge against India for their lost in the Twenty 20 World Cup. After the Twenty 20 Cricket World Cup I am interested in Cricket and now I use to see cricket match sometimes. But I am disappointed by the performance of Indian Cricket team in ODI series. But as Australia is my favorite cricket team even if they are not for my nation, I do not care at all. I watched the last match of ODI series in the Nagpur, India. Australia did a marvelous performance in that day. Matthew Hayden played amazingly that day.
Also Australia did a good second inning that day and I would say they were in great form that day both in bating and fielding. India also chased up to a very close figure but Australia was doing great bowling. So, they failed to chase up to the end and they lost the match by 18 runs only. But in that match the old Indian batsmen Ganguly and Tendulkar played well. They were back to the form again. I saw Ganguly playing well after a very long time that day. Also some other batsman like Sachin Tendulkar, Uthappa, Pathan and Dhoni played well that day. If Dhoni could stand for a longer time, then there was chance that India could win the match. But his early fall of wicket made it impossible for India to win the match because he was the last hope of the Indian Team and after him there was no batsman.
Oh Jesus! We are Safe
The Australian cricket team and many of the Indian cricket players met a threat in the flight early in the day. They were going to Mumbai from the Nagpur. When their flight was preparing to take off from the Nagpur Airport a bird hit their flight. They experienced a scare moment in the flight and they knew something hit the flight. It was the flight of Jet Airways 9w 0112 and the passengers in the plane heard a loud sound of the hit. The pilot said it was not a major issue nut they need to check the plane and therefore they decided for precautionary landing in the Nagpur. The bird hit the right engine of the aircraft and they were taken to the Mumbai through the replacement aircraft. They were sitting in the Nagpur for about half an hour.
It was really a scary experienced being inside the flight said some of the passengers in the incident. Imagine if something wrong happened in that incident, then what would be the fate of cricket. Cricket is the only game in India and Australia is champion of cricket game for years. But if both the teams met the accident on that day, then the game will become meaningless to the whole world. And also there would be impact on the fans of the Indian and Australian cricket teams. Many of the fans would die due to heart attack just after the incident happened and the remaining fans would stop watching the game. I am thankful to God that nothing happened to both the teams.
Shanthakumaran Sreesanth- Attitude Problem
Cricket is a gentleman’s game but not a place for brat. It is one of the coolest games which need calmness and which needs well mannered players. But Shanthakumaran Sreesanth will not be able to become a perfect cricket player if he continues doing what he uses to do right now. He is just a child in the game and he just came yesterday in the field. We have been watching the game for years and he need to give respect to us also. Forget about the fellow players because it is mandatory. But he also needs to give respect to the cricket fans like me. Recently in the Twenty 20 World cup I noticed some extra anger and furious in the face of Shanthakumaran Sreesanth. But it doesn’t suit this gentleman’s game. What’s the need of doing such thing in the game?
Cheers and celebration are totally different things. We cannot say it is a kind of celebration. Shanthakumaran Sreesanth is just a child of yesterday and he is going to fight with his father like Andrew Symonds. In terms of talent and also the size, he cannot fight with them at all. It is not the problem of Shanthakumaran Sreesanth only. Harbhajan Singh of Indian cricket team also has the same attitude problem. In the recent match of the ODI series, there were many incidents of exchange of mouth between the Indian players and Australian players. That is really the bad images of Indian players especially Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and Harbhajan singh. Shanthakumaran Sreesanth was interviewed about this many times and he confessed he is young enough in the field and a lot more to learn about the game. He doesn’t know exactly whether he is doing right or wrong. Also there have been many comments from the well known figures in the cricket about the character of Shanthakumaran Sreesanth.