This I guess is the best time to ponder over this question that if India won it or Pakistan lost it? I am writing this late, deliberately, 'cause I wanted the frenzy to settle down only then the mind can think reasonably.
There were two unsual events which compelled me to believe that there’s politics, within the team and there’s more to it than meets the eye!!
First, let me state what I’m trying to prove here…that Yuvi, Bhajji & Sehwag (Punjabi / Sardar / Jat) gang-up to (ironically they themselves do not want to see each other but…) against their new captain Dhoni, a Bihari (Bihari / Jharkhandi…all the same for them, I can say this with my experience in Delhi).
Fortunately, Dhoni was able to drop Sehwag, thanks to his poor show in the Ind-Aus match but how do you drop Yuvraj & Harbhajan?? Both star performers in India’s spectacular entry to the finals. But ironically Sehwag was dropped just at the last minute, from the finals and a debutant was included instead in this very crucial Indo-Pak finals of tournament…just how many parallel examples in the history of the game itself wherein you’ve a debutant opening an innings in a final match against arch rivals…n correct me if I’m mistaken but this was the first of its kind debut and yet no eyebrows raised…ironic, isn’t it?? And was Sehwag’s injury that bad?? Was it worse than…remember Kumble with that broken Jaw still playing and winning it for the team…it couldn’t have been worse for Sehwag or could it be?? Both Yuvi & Bhajji perform abysmally in finals...watch the entire finals again and that too the previous matches against Aussies & English. In both these matches Yuvi blasts off with the word go quite contrary to their show in finals.
Never-to-miss that Joginder Sharma with a total experience of not more than 10 overs in international matches, was given that last over…Pak almost won it before lady-luck won it for us!! I mean can you imagine a Indo-Pak final in a world cup with those “every-passing-moment-heart-attack” for more than a billion fans and the best hitter of the arch rivals at the strike and your captain ends-up with an amateur…
Now, allow me to take you a couple of days back when Yuvi hit 6 sixes in an over against England and topped it with his slam-bang 70 of 30 balls against the Aussies…just as if he was trying to prove some point and here was his father all over the e-madia churning out “exclusive” sound bytes about his son’s heart-felt disappointment following captaincy being bestowed to Dhoni…his junior. And this was bothering him so much so that only his poor father could make out but was waiting for the right time to share it on prime-time and what better moment poor-chap could have asked for??
Actually the trio draw their grudge from their pathological hate Punjabis and Jats have cultivated for Biharis. It may be because they’ve grown-up watching Bhiari farm-labors, rikshaw-pullers & domestic-helps all around them and may've started believing that all of Biharis and Jharkhandis are but some distant relatives of those and how come hell they can captian us?? I mean the last thing you would want is your servant becoming your master. So let’s just spike the finals and Dhoni would then be labeled a “Choker” as alike his predessors, which will pave way for a slam-bang flambuyont Yuvraj to be crowned Captain sooner than later…
But Khudos to Dhoni and his brave-hearts for whatever they were able to pull-off!!
There were two unsual events which compelled me to believe that there’s politics, within the team and there’s more to it than meets the eye!!
First, let me state what I’m trying to prove here…that Yuvi, Bhajji & Sehwag (Punjabi / Sardar / Jat) gang-up to (ironically they themselves do not want to see each other but…) against their new captain Dhoni, a Bihari (Bihari / Jharkhandi…all the same for them, I can say this with my experience in Delhi).
Fortunately, Dhoni was able to drop Sehwag, thanks to his poor show in the Ind-Aus match but how do you drop Yuvraj & Harbhajan?? Both star performers in India’s spectacular entry to the finals. But ironically Sehwag was dropped just at the last minute, from the finals and a debutant was included instead in this very crucial Indo-Pak finals of tournament…just how many parallel examples in the history of the game itself wherein you’ve a debutant opening an innings in a final match against arch rivals…n correct me if I’m mistaken but this was the first of its kind debut and yet no eyebrows raised…ironic, isn’t it?? And was Sehwag’s injury that bad?? Was it worse than…remember Kumble with that broken Jaw still playing and winning it for the team…it couldn’t have been worse for Sehwag or could it be?? Both Yuvi & Bhajji perform abysmally in finals...watch the entire finals again and that too the previous matches against Aussies & English. In both these matches Yuvi blasts off with the word go quite contrary to their show in finals.
Never-to-miss that Joginder Sharma with a total experience of not more than 10 overs in international matches, was given that last over…Pak almost won it before lady-luck won it for us!! I mean can you imagine a Indo-Pak final in a world cup with those “every-passing-moment-heart-attack” for more than a billion fans and the best hitter of the arch rivals at the strike and your captain ends-up with an amateur…
Now, allow me to take you a couple of days back when Yuvi hit 6 sixes in an over against England and topped it with his slam-bang 70 of 30 balls against the Aussies…just as if he was trying to prove some point and here was his father all over the e-madia churning out “exclusive” sound bytes about his son’s heart-felt disappointment following captaincy being bestowed to Dhoni…his junior. And this was bothering him so much so that only his poor father could make out but was waiting for the right time to share it on prime-time and what better moment poor-chap could have asked for??
Actually the trio draw their grudge from their pathological hate Punjabis and Jats have cultivated for Biharis. It may be because they’ve grown-up watching Bhiari farm-labors, rikshaw-pullers & domestic-helps all around them and may've started believing that all of Biharis and Jharkhandis are but some distant relatives of those and how come hell they can captian us?? I mean the last thing you would want is your servant becoming your master. So let’s just spike the finals and Dhoni would then be labeled a “Choker” as alike his predessors, which will pave way for a slam-bang flambuyont Yuvraj to be crowned Captain sooner than later…
But Khudos to Dhoni and his brave-hearts for whatever they were able to pull-off!!
