Sunday, January 06, 2008

We lost

Another Sydney Test match comes to a close. Australia have won their 16th consecutive Test match. India have lost yet again.

India had the world champions Australia down at 6/134 on the first day.
We lost!
India were trailing Australia by 118 runs with 3 wickets in hand, and ended up with a lead of 69.
We lost!
VVS Laxman scored a brilliant counterattacking century.
We lost!
Tendulkar made the most measured, intelligent century of his career.
We lost!
Harbhajan had the world's best batsman out first ball for the 5th time.
We lost!
Ishant Sharma & RP Singh had the Aussies crawling at 2 runs per over.
We lost!
The Aussies took 1 full day to score 282 runs against an attack of Sharma,Singh, Singh & Kumble.
We lost!
The best team in 130 years had to wait with 8 minutes to go on the 5th day of a Test Match on their Home Ground for a victory against an Indian team with an inexperienced bowling attack.
We lost?

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

*yawn* what else is new? classic snatching defeat from the jaws of victory...
sheesh,nothing like cricket to get the indian male all philosophical!

3:51 AM  
Blogger incognito said...

If you would have mentioned dismal umpiring and a dishonest winning team somewhere in the post, it might not have been so depressing:(

9:26 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

well said, and I totally agree. But we should have not lost even literally. you forgot to mention
It was the most horendous job of umpiring in the history of the game
We lost!

8:42 PM  

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