Blogs Would we crib if Dhoni & Co. had won??
June 20th, 2009 by kapoorJust one look at the reports in the newspapers and the constant discussion in the media about how the Indian players had apparently hidden their injuries makes me feel how stupid and judgemental people can be. Just imagine what would have been the reaction had Dhoni lifted the T20 World Cup, yet again?
Would the supposed report on injured Indian players created so much ridicule among the cricket experts who are branding the Indian team members as ‘greedy’. It is a sorry state of affairs that a team has to face such varied reactions in case they have a week of bad performance. I can only hope that these things don’t start to hamper Dhoni’s progress as a skipper though my gut feeling is that he is already beginning to show signs of feeling the pressure of Indian captaincy that has flattened so many men who have held this profile.
Anyway, the Caribbean tour is coming up and it would be interesting to see the reactions if the Indian team manages to win all its matches. The only good thing for Dhoni and the team is that they have already flown to the Islands rather than come back home and answer questions that would have linked their schooling, family relations, their cultural background, the way they feel about money, the number of hours spent shooting advertisements and God knows what all ridiculous theories to their defeat.
It is time people accepted a simple fact: the Indian cricket team is almost always over-worked so it is a law of probability that will make them fail every now and then.
