An Indian Supporter Speaks

Well hadnt taken to blogging for quite some long as my work and tight scheduleds didnt just give that bit amount of free time to type down a few words.But now after the edn of the India_england series i guess it is the perfect time to vent my frustrations...
At the end of of a one all series i just cant take it all the praises goes to Flintoff and co.. I admit that the england side was deplted But come on the matters in the indian team wasnt worse..We didnt have the Bets Batsman in Form(Sachin Tnedulkar as i am forced to say)..VVS Laxman was warming the benches for most part of the 3 match series...Harbhajan Singh was nowhere near his best ..And to spearhed the bowling we had two debutants..Give prasie where and when it is due..I have been an ardent Saurav fan to the extent that i would argue him to be the best batsman in the world..BUt now Dada has to retire graciously as just like evrey other indian can guess he is very much past his colours...As for VVS Laxman...Indian public and the indian Cricket team has everything other than grattitude..This Guy was the sole reason that India was counted to be the FINAL FRONTIER by Stephen Waugh..This Guy stood up on hiw own agianst the Aussies....Well his last few innings might have been a bit off colour but a few deliveries for which he got out were indeed real gems which given any time no other batsman in the world would have been sfae with....All this hype and hoolah about Flintoff is really getting onto my nerves..I admit he is a very good cricketer...But is he worth all the praises he is been showered upon..He led a team of relative new comers to a well dreserved draw but how many cenutries did he score how many five wicket hauls did he get....The english are no where near to be world beaters..Remember that the last series in Englad also had ended up in a draw and the Indians werent credited as much as the English has been now....Well about the crowd behaviour and the so called cricket experts being unhappy at that...Big time hypocrites is never a light word to describe these senior players.They go all the way to australlia get abused by the crowd ,cow down l,ose the games and come back doing nothing..The crowd behaviour around other places are not exemplary either...Well autrallia is getting abused by the South African crowd like anything as a return of the kind welcome the proteas were given by the Aussie crowd....We indians have always been light on the filed ..Refusing to sledge refusing to abuse the umpires...And what do we gain...Nothing to be precise.This has to change the home crowd besides getting behind the home team has to be hard to the Away team as this is just what all other crowds around the world do..
As for my feeling about this indian team...A young outfit got a draw agaisn the Ashes champions are no pushovers.Admit Dhoni shoudln have played that rash shot but come on we are the same people who have cheered him when he has hit his way out of pressure situations...If Sachin cant score,Dravid cant hold the team together..Shewag cant get a single run ...Please give me a break..Dhoni is no super human.Indian team is on a chnage.Give this team the time and it will surely impress.And from a personal view i would replace Jaffer with Aakash Chopra who for me was the most cruicial player of the team Down under when Indai tamed the world Champs at their den..GO INDIA GO.......