Pakistan or SL tomorrow would win the WT20 and become second Asian team to win a WC in England. Thats after India in 1983. So may be it was a community act by India who crashed out early to allow its neighbours have the pie of the cake called T20, so now are we seeing a PPL or SLPL next year ownwards ?
I just hope there would be cricketing logic and reasons for any team to win the WT20. No emotional bullying should be done. Whosoever will win, will do it on the basis of its cricketing skills and tactics. Dedicating the trophy to somebody or some event is fine, but saying we were deserved winners cos we didnt play cricket for X years or months would be aghast. Subcontinental teams have this tendency to over hype the things.
Two years back India won the inaugral WT20 and entire nation rejoiced cos it had seen the despairity of the WC2007. They wanted a victory and they got it. Since then to now, Indians hardly did anything wrong. And this wrong step and Indian players were again put on a pedestal by inept media and even inept ex-cricketers. If India would have retained the title, nobody would have gone ahead and attributed the victory to 11/26. Though Sachin did that for the Chennai win., that was wrong imo.
No amount of cricket win can compensate for the tragedy of such a huge intensity like LTTE war or 11/26 or the so called war agains terror in Pakistan.
I would also be keen to watch the reactions of Younis Khan, Imran Khan and Javed Miandad if Pakistan wins T20. Would Younis continue to say T20 is fun and WWF cricket ? Would Javed and his rival Imran Khan continue to write off T20 ? And what joking statement would Ijaz Butt give? And what happens to PCB administration which i hope wont turn square and would turn effecient? What happens to Pakistan cricket? Will it continue to perform good one day, best the other and ridiculous the next ? How would they perform in Sri Lanka series and the CT series ? Will they be a force in ODIs and Tests which would matter in the long picture ? They are langering in the bottom of this two old formats.
How will they take the WC11 hosting issue ? Will the possible win force Butt to go and give even stupid statements in the media and make a further joke of himself and PCB?
For SL, it would remain how they would turn around their poor ODI record after their possible triumph. How long would Jaisurya continue to play? take him out and SL opening remains a poor cog for the team. None of the openers tried have succeeded untill Sanga or Dilshan opened. But then is it long term solution? Similar to what India did with Mr Useless. SL bowling evokes massive orgasm from cricketing viewers, but what about batting. Except Dilshan, Mahela, Sanga and Jaya their batting looks brittle. They havent really exploded and went beyond 160 in any of the games after league game against WI.
Whosoever wins, would be good for the cricket in their country. But the intensity of 2007 would forever be missing in this tourney just cos the BLUES and the YELLOWS have lost. As in India and Australia. These 2 teams remain the top teams of the international cricket in terms of quality, entertainment and skills. Yeah yeah call me names but then i havent reeled anybody. People have choices. Homer has anything Indian, anything mumbaian his choice. Damith has SL as his choice, Q has Pakistan as his choice, Raj has Tamil Nadu and CSK as his choice. And me the devil blogger has India and Australia as his choices. So when everybody has his own choice and they stand by their choices, why just single me for criticism.
I just hope there would be cricketing logic and reasons for any team to win the WT20. No emotional bullying should be done. Whosoever will win, will do it on the basis of its cricketing skills and tactics. Dedicating the trophy to somebody or some event is fine, but saying we were deserved winners cos we didnt play cricket for X years or months would be aghast. Subcontinental teams have this tendency to over hype the things.
Two years back India won the inaugral WT20 and entire nation rejoiced cos it had seen the despairity of the WC2007. They wanted a victory and they got it. Since then to now, Indians hardly did anything wrong. And this wrong step and Indian players were again put on a pedestal by inept media and even inept ex-cricketers. If India would have retained the title, nobody would have gone ahead and attributed the victory to 11/26. Though Sachin did that for the Chennai win., that was wrong imo.
No amount of cricket win can compensate for the tragedy of such a huge intensity like LTTE war or 11/26 or the so called war agains terror in Pakistan.
I would also be keen to watch the reactions of Younis Khan, Imran Khan and Javed Miandad if Pakistan wins T20. Would Younis continue to say T20 is fun and WWF cricket ? Would Javed and his rival Imran Khan continue to write off T20 ? And what joking statement would Ijaz Butt give? And what happens to PCB administration which i hope wont turn square and would turn effecient? What happens to Pakistan cricket? Will it continue to perform good one day, best the other and ridiculous the next ? How would they perform in Sri Lanka series and the CT series ? Will they be a force in ODIs and Tests which would matter in the long picture ? They are langering in the bottom of this two old formats.
How will they take the WC11 hosting issue ? Will the possible win force Butt to go and give even stupid statements in the media and make a further joke of himself and PCB?
For SL, it would remain how they would turn around their poor ODI record after their possible triumph. How long would Jaisurya continue to play? take him out and SL opening remains a poor cog for the team. None of the openers tried have succeeded untill Sanga or Dilshan opened. But then is it long term solution? Similar to what India did with Mr Useless. SL bowling evokes massive orgasm from cricketing viewers, but what about batting. Except Dilshan, Mahela, Sanga and Jaya their batting looks brittle. They havent really exploded and went beyond 160 in any of the games after league game against WI.
Whosoever wins, would be good for the cricket in their country. But the intensity of 2007 would forever be missing in this tourney just cos the BLUES and the YELLOWS have lost. As in India and Australia. These 2 teams remain the top teams of the international cricket in terms of quality, entertainment and skills. Yeah yeah call me names but then i havent reeled anybody. People have choices. Homer has anything Indian, anything mumbaian his choice. Damith has SL as his choice, Q has Pakistan as his choice, Raj has Tamil Nadu and CSK as his choice. And me the devil blogger has India and Australia as his choices. So when everybody has his own choice and they stand by their choices, why just single me for criticism.
2 Perspectives:
no doubt that whosoever will win will win it coz of primary skills i.e. cricketing skills...but sam...there are many who draws inspiration from what happens/happened in their life...isn't it...?
Agreed SP ;)
but citing that as the justofication to win in my opinion is wrong.
When we won in 2007, we didnt attribute anything to 1983 or anything wrong happening in country then.
just that WT20 win propelled a new era in Indian cricket which i believe still hasnt ended.
only thing we wanted to end then was 2007 World cup loss. And we did. We turn around our performances in Tests and ODis and surprisingly lost it in T20 :)
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