Loss of India in the ICC World Cup 2007

Yes! India lost miserably to Bangladesh earlier and then lost to
Srilanka yesterday. What a shame. I woke up yesterday with a hope that
some miracle might happen and India might strike back. Hoping against
all hope, I connected to Sopcast and started watching the Srilankan
first innings. India wasn't doing bad ... I was pretty annoyed though to
see Agarkar back in the team even though Irfan Pathan was in the team.
When Rahul Dravid gave Agarkar to bowl the last over, I was so so so
annoyed! He just gives away too many runs. Why the hell we still play
him? Srilanka made 254 in 50 ovs which was not a daunting score to
chase, specially for a team with good batting lineup like India. When
Indian innings started, it soon became clear that the team had to
psychological attitude to fight back. Soon, ganguly, sachin fell, Sachin
fell on a duck. It was so frustrating ... so hopelessly disappointing...
I stopped watching the match and decided to go to the lab and start
working as usual. I had already wasted one half of the day through
watching this fruitless game. Unfortunately, even in the lab, I could
not work! I was just unable to accept the fact that we would loose like
this, without a fight ... in a World Cup. Its just so humiliating, its
so insulting for India .... its just unacceptable.

I could not work almost for the whole day. Towards the late afternoon, I
decided that I had to do something - I had to write my thesis abstract
and also do some more benchmarks. I am doing a presentation next week at
the regular research group seminar and I had to send my abstract soon. I
read some blogs and some news report on India's humiliating defeat.
Everyone knew that this was expected and miracles seldom happens in
Cricket, even then ....

Yes, we all Indians love our game, we love cricket. Its not only our
passion, its a part of our culture, our religion, our hope in the middle
of all crisis, its our joy and its our pain at the same time. When India
wins a match, its like winning a battle ... its like showing to the
world that we too can! All Indians, no matter where they are, all of us
love to see India win in Cricket. And then as one of my high school
seniors wrote in her blog
appropriately: " ... All eyes in India and elsewhere in the world
(except America, where no one seems to have heard of cricket or when
asked about cricket, generally conjure up illusions of a cute and chirpy
grasshopper) have been on the World Cup Series. ...".

Yes, I love India, my country and love cricket too ... I grew up with it ...