Accepting the Unacceptable

It’s not that, we stumble and bumble in becoming a sportive nation, the fact that none of the player’s houses were pelted with stones or effigies burnt, shows that we are raising our standards. Moreover the kind of support and sympathy the players won in social media after yesterday’s loss was cheerful and heartening. I am not reading much in to what kind of debate the savior of India (Arnab Goswami) conducted on his news channel last night. In fact, the most trending tweet for the day has not been #Shamed@Sydney but #ShameOnTimesnow. Even the chauvinist who doesn’t have the balls to do anything, taking a dig at Anushka Sharma or Virat Kohli can be ignored. These noises are omnipresent and the impotent opinions of these jerks can be ignored.

“For, Game is players battling and cowards whining”

To Dhoni - “I do have emotions, but I don’t show it often” is the phrase, I would chose to live with on any given day. You have been an inspiration for the whole country. We take pride in ourselves to have a leader like you.

To Virat - After the legendary Sachin Tendulkar retired, it is you who have brought smiles and pride to the Indian cricket. You need not bow down either to the fans or the country. Your efforts and performance has been the limelight for us to travel till Semifinals.

To the team - Well boys, a fact very well known before the world cup started was, we never had the firepower or experience like what we had in 2011. Nevertheless spending four months away from home, with quite a lot of defeats but still hanging out there to deliver the best was an impressive show. Hats off to you guys.

I would proudly tell my kids, that this was the team going in to the world cup with a handful of heavy defeats in the series prior and still went on to reach the semi-finals. I would tell them, we never had a potent and fiercely competitive bowlers in the squad, but they bowled out all the opponents they met on their way to reach the last four stage. I would tell them, that the batsman were expected to crumble and tumble in the bouncy Australian pitches, but they proved it all wrong by combating every strong bowling attacks they played against. And I would tell them, that this was the squad which never had a Sachin Tendulkar. The ten Spartans were led by the 11^th who was fearless like the gods, who had the power of tranquility to destroy any opponents on a given day, alas yesterday was not his. I would proudly tell them, that this was team which never surrendered meekly but fought valiantly till the end. I would, would You?