As i sit down to write this , one day after the cup has come back home after a generation gap , the feeling has not yet sunk in . My father was roughly my age when we won it the first time . I always wondered since '03 , how the aussies back home , the common people must feel when the team they support played so magnificiently, consistently . Perhaps now, i atleast know how they felt when they'd got the cup. Its a feeling words can't truly describe. Its an emotion everyone of us could associate with. Pride,honour,respect for the team,glory,attitude,ecstasy and a lot more.
Its not about winning the cup,atleast put up a good show , i said to myself when sach walked away. Now, having won it, i realize how deeply it was about the cup.Even though my heart wishes to describe the so called ramayan-2 final here, which am sure no indian missed, this one is for the people , for the team , for the game and not the least about how i feel about all of these .Hats off to gauti for showing such character.Respect, loads of it. For a friend says you could be a fan of gambhir or you may be not ; but you can never be an 'anti-fan' of his.Truly. I wish this could be said for certain other individuals as well.Zaks' first spell, was indeed magical.Yuvi what a way to come back to form.WC looked like his 'ghar ki kheti'! Dhoni defines what i call 'whenever i wish to do' attitude.Theres nothing much that can said about god.Bhajji!!and everyone else.This means no disrespect,just that i aint writing this as a review of the tournament.And also that now that we have won the cup it doesnt matter what went wrong.That is for certain other voices to debate on. Well everyone said this one was for sachin.Ok.Whatever the reason,i sincerely hope you find another one the next time around.
Concerned voices , voices that matter have said a lot about cricket,in general and the indian cricket , in specific ,the past 6 weeks.Encouraging stuff,abusing shit,winning ways,losing matches,team selection,performing when needed and what not.This one is from a person,who always believed its just another sport but now sublimely understands why its called a religion in india. I still don't know what hovers my mind; the '03 bowling nightmare or the '11 nightmarish start converted to a result, howsoever surreal it maybe.I still dont know whether i praise dada,who brought in most of the current indian team and taught the team what attitude is or whether i finally credit ms for he is the epitome of composure.I still dont know whether we stand a chance next time around or is this the beginning of a wait that would end when my kids would be my age. Well everything said and done i certainly wish i could have seen and heard dada after the match.
I truly understand now, what cricket means to our generation and using some mathematical funda,i could extend it to every other generation of India.Final of any game is important.An uncalled toss-couldnt have been a better start. Swearing when sanga finally won the toss.Slow start,people praying for wickets,mahela settling in with sanga and the '03 final ghost haunting zaheer yet again. People hurling abuses for every run not taken.the thuderous claps and slogans for every boundary hit. Fingers been shown for every good ball delivered.The closed eyes and folded hands-man you would know how religious people were only on such days.A friend sat with his palms closed as in prayers for the entire second innings.Well they say 'team ko jeetana padhta hai'.Indeed! When we won the T20 WC,people said a new cricketing era has dawned.Then the numero uno test position. WC '11.The sun has finally seen the morning.
