Lathering Aussies

Oh my, who would have thought that Dhoni and company would pull this off! In case you do not know what I am talking about, Mahendra Sigh Dhoni is the new Captain the of Indian Cricket team, and the subject is the Indian Victory over the Aussies, the undefeated world champions in both the longer varieties of Cricket. It is still too early to say that India has come of age in world Cricket. But from what is happening, there is every chance that this team would give anybody the run for their money.

Forgive me the excitement, for this is unusual in the Indian Cricket, we won the 1983 world cup and the recent twenty 20 world cup, but never have risen to the stature of real world beaters. I know, I know, cricket is not a game followed by many, to some it is worse than say, golf, only a few countries in the world plays the game internationally at present, but all the same to a cricket addict such figures would never matter. To them the world means just a few national teams as far as cricket is concerned. Those who do not know the game and those who do not watch the game, well they will never realize the thrills this game, played for entire days together, can give to people .

Remember, Shelly wrote poems( Or just one poem at least) on the subject. Forget the words of George Bernard Shaw that cricket is a game played by eleven fools and watched by eleven thousand fools. Any one who have ever held a cricket ball, felt its leather, smelled the leather, held a bat in his hand, felt the shock on his hands after hitting a pleasing drive, can never forget the experience as long as he is alive. Even the controversies of match fixing has not dulled the interest and delight in the game.

Some say that cricket is a game invented by the British for the Indians, may be they are right!