Surely England players wanted to say "Rain rain go away, Come again some other...". Another dismal performance by so called Indian star batsmen. What an impressive batting line up we have got - Tendulkar, Ganguly, Dravid, Laxman, Karthik and Dhoni that against England's relatively inexperienced bowlers (I give them a full credit, tremendous efforts by them).
What annoyed me was the scene after the test was declared drawn. Indian camp had a 'mini-celebration' as if we have a won the match. They should be ashamed instead, weather saved us in time. I have seen our team playing for some time and the world cup memories are still afresh. My personal opinion is - some players are doing 9 to 5 job. There is no passion, no desire to win. I have not seen the team putting their heart and soul in the game. They are pretty content with their lives and Cricket is just one part they have to play. It's high time we clean up our act and show the much needed performance because rain is not going to save us at Trent Bridge. Dhoni with some luck was definitely a star today but his performance is not consistent either. In fact, our bowlers did a great job. There was a consistency and IMHO they deserve full praise.
I stopped watching Cricket in between just because of the frustration. You spend whole day watching (or keeping track via whatever media you have got) the game only to find that we have lost due to dismal performance of players. I started again from the world cup only to find myself in a similar situation. There are whole lot of other issues viz., politics, team selection procedure, lack of proper system to replace ageing players and so on. Given the popularity of the game and kind of sponsorships we get its high time that we review the whole system and improve our ranking in both test and one day cricket.
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