Friday, March 23, 2007

Show's over, Blue Billion.. Time to go home

Sorry for the delay, busy with the markets lately.

The quintessential World Cup post. Honestly, I didn't feel the hype this year and even though we lost, it doesn't seem like the end of the world as it would have, say, four years ago.

Everybody is going to have his or her emotional boo-hoo's about the whole fiasco. I just feel sad for all the school boys and girls; for whom cricket is the only source of inspiration in a sport-drained country. Our team has let us down, once again - time to move on. Then again, for some of the kids, it would be a blessing in disguise, as it is exam season after all.

Brace yourselves for the postmortem. Every true Indian will have his or her 'humble' opinion on why we lost, who should be sacked, why they will not watch cricket any more, and whose house is going to be stoned first. Out of which nothing really is going to happen - except for the stoning part.

Don't dwell on it too much, folks. Maybe we'll come back like France did in football; or maybe we'll lose to Bangla again. It is in our nature to be inconsistent and unpredictable. Think about something else in the meanwhile, like our economy. At least it's doing much better than that of the teams that have beaten us.

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