On Losing Side---Yet Again

The morning started in a disappointing note.

Last night I retired from my television set at around 12 o'clock leaving India well placed at 40-plus runs with 9 wickets in hand and with run-a-ball chasing equation. Defending a paltry run on board, I was quite sure that this was not the night of the Proteas and Dhoni's men will at last get a chance to leave the ground on a winning note at the Super 8 stage. It takes only special talents to loose a match from here and the the MSD brigade had just done that.

With many experts owing India's defeat to fatigue and over-exposure to cricket, I beleive it's the sheer callousness of the Indian cricketers that catalysed India's exit from the World T20 championship. Even in yesterday's match, while the South Africans were more interested in converting their ones into twos, most of the Indians fell in the process of hitting over the rope when it was an extravagant option. The skipper himself fell pray to an imaginative run that was never on the card.

Let's hope the team will bounce back in West Indies.