Tomorrow the final phase of the triangular series is going to begin.... The entire Indian tour of Australia has been marred by incidents which have enhanced my vocabulary to a great extent....It all began with "Monkey". After some days another term "Teri Maa ki" came into my colourful vocabulary. This rate of enhancements of my vocabulary has been the highest since my school days.... But really the enhancements came in both English and Hindi..really would make my Old English Teacher proud as well as the guardian Hindi teacher... Just when it seemed that the series was ending with only the sparks remaining of the old fire.... Hayden put some more wood by calling Harbhajan "Obnoxious little weed".... Really my sixth grade teacher would be fuming red with the kind of vocabulary enhancements her illustrious students are getting :-) .....
So now where does this leave tomorrow's match for India.... Really if India has to show that they are worthy contenders to the world champions title, they need to win against them on the field. Of course they have shown lots of guts till now...but what matters is the victory.... 5 years down the line everybody is going to read the Test scoreline as 2-1 to Australia and the umpiring issues would never be looked at... similarly assuming India loses the finals... nobody is going to talk about the fight India gave.... The only talk will be that of the dominion of Australia... Really can't blame anyone on that... but if we see the cold stats, India has just won one test and one ODI in the entire tour against Australia... so if Indian team wants to be considered as a worthy challenger, they really need to win the tournament...Because people always forget the losers.... So invite your comments on possible fall-out this series will have on the team standings as well as the cricket as a whole...
So now where does this leave tomorrow's match for India.... Really if India has to show that they are worthy contenders to the world champions title, they need to win against them on the field. Of course they have shown lots of guts till now...but what matters is the victory.... 5 years down the line everybody is going to read the Test scoreline as 2-1 to Australia and the umpiring issues would never be looked at... similarly assuming India loses the finals... nobody is going to talk about the fight India gave.... The only talk will be that of the dominion of Australia... Really can't blame anyone on that... but if we see the cold stats, India has just won one test and one ODI in the entire tour against Australia... so if Indian team wants to be considered as a worthy challenger, they really need to win the tournament...Because people always forget the losers.... So invite your comments on possible fall-out this series will have on the team standings as well as the cricket as a whole...
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