Monday, November 12, 2007

India Vs. Pakistan

This India-Pakistan Series as usual promises to be a cliffhanger. The series till the last match was well tied at 1-1. But after India's superb win yesterday at Kanpur has thrown opened the series alive. And that was a win India needed. It served two purposes. As a patriotic Indian, I wanted India to win, of course. And secondly, for the sake of the game of cricket. Its good for any team to take a lead early on.
The India-Pak enmity is well known. It was fueled by the last ball 6 by Javed Miandad. In 1996
World Cup Quarter Final India had ousted Pakistan. In the 2003 edition of the World Cup too India had convincingly beaten the Pakis in a league match. Which many Indian fans termed as the virutal Cup being leafted. Then there was India's world record chase. India then had scored 325 to win the best of 3 finals. Then when India toured Pakistan in 12 years, there too India had won both the One Day and Test Series.
The enmity continued in the first edition of the T20 World Cup, where the Pakistan Captain pretanded not to have known the bowl out rules. How shameful an answer for such a responsible man. That was a way to hide all that went wrong. And the best came at the finals. When again the match went to the wire. And the Indians were the only team that could have lifted the cup. (The tournament too had no other choice other than India!!!)

But now seems that its too much for the Pakistanis, and thats why they keep loosing their tempers and get the support of sledging. Like this one:


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yup thing indeed are changing. Now a days they track opposition players to find weaknesses,
http://indiadoodles.blogspot.com/2007/09/science-of-tracking-key-opposition.html