Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. - Vince Lombardi
The first ODI between India and Australia in the CB tri series (which Sangakkara feels is a virtual world championship) was thankfully washed out. Considering we don’t have the in-form Ganguly, the indispensable (the selection committee begs to differ) Dravid and The-man-with-the-bloated-head a.k.a Yuvraj Padukone, India needed a big innings from SRT or the wild card Sehwag to show a semblance of a fight. That wasn’t meant to be and the Indians were facing another humiliating defeat before bad weather bailed them out.
Manoj Tiwari (who was brought in instead of Raina or Karthik) looked out of place but Rohit Sharma, Pathan and Ishant were impressive. To be fair to Tiwari, a debut at Brisbane against Lee and co. is not the dream debut you pray for.
Watching the ODI still beats getting up at 2:30 am on a work day to witness the Aus-Ind T-20 massacre. Less said the better, but I think we lost this match the minute Dhoni claimed “We will take the Twenty20 as one of the practice games.” Call me a cynic, but to me that translates to “We expect to get our asses kicked – in which case, I have my excuse ready: we weren’t taking this seriously. However, if we do manage to freakishly win because Lady Luck had nowhere else to go, we can always say we won even though we were treating it like a practice game.” I like Dhoni, and I think he is a decent captain, but what’s with the negativity?
Manoj Tiwari (who was brought in instead of Raina or Karthik) looked out of place but Rohit Sharma, Pathan and Ishant were impressive. To be fair to Tiwari, a debut at Brisbane against Lee and co. is not the dream debut you pray for.
Watching the ODI still beats getting up at 2:30 am on a work day to witness the Aus-Ind T-20 massacre. Less said the better, but I think we lost this match the minute Dhoni claimed “We will take the Twenty20 as one of the practice games.” Call me a cynic, but to me that translates to “We expect to get our asses kicked – in which case, I have my excuse ready: we weren’t taking this seriously. However, if we do manage to freakishly win because Lady Luck had nowhere else to go, we can always say we won even though we were treating it like a practice game.” I like Dhoni, and I think he is a decent captain, but what’s with the negativity?
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