Off late, where One Day cricket has been reduced to mockery on dust bowls, where the team batting first scores 350 and still feels insecure, where batsmen have looked more like Roger Federers with the wrong racquet, where u wud ask ur kid to take up hockey (considering its our national sport!) than be a fast bowler... the Champion's trophy has actually been a revelation. Suddenly, 215 seems defendable, the batsmen have been made to work hard and the men have been seperated from the boys. Its been great to see the talents of Mkhaya Ntini, Jermane Lawson, Umar Gul and Harbhajan Singh get a level playi g field. Where, for ages the ball seemed to rarely get waist high, suddenly it is bouncing ans seaming and doing all sorts of things!
But, alas, each time u switch on the TV set, all you see is empty stands.. When the quality of cricket seems to be at its best, the audience seem to have disappeared. Blame the administrators for that! Empty stands in India is rare.. but when u do the blunder of scheduling all the matches in just 4 stadiums, what else can you expect! May be BCCI has got enough money out of TV screening rights.
Anyways, back to the cricket. So does India stand a chance of beating the Australians at Mohali on Saturday. sawry.. their bowlings too good n this time, they have a 12th player.. the pitch!!
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