Indian sports- another “chak de India” domain
September 24, 2007
India has just won the inaugural ICC Twenty Twenty World Championship, beating traditional rivals Pakistan. Clearly, the title “world champions” is itself cause for huge celebrations. But the icing on the cake is that in the past couple of months, Indian tennis, badminton, field hockey and soccer have all taken India to levels that were associated with non-Indian nations. It is this “broad based rally” in Indian sport that makes me want to say, “chak de India”!
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Bharat | September 25, 2007 at 2:41 am
Wonder if Pakistan and especially Misbah will start to share the ‘Chokers’ tag with South Africa. India, for their part have completed a hattrick of making the opposition choke and lose matches that were there to be won by the men with the willow to weild at the end.
Of course no complains from my side espcially since I can, for the first time in my life hear the words “World Champion” roll relishingly over my tongue. Ah!! What a feeling that too on my birthday!
Savour it India, savour it while it lasts! We are all only too familiar with the pathological short-term memory of the cricket crazy Indian Fans and given the smarting Australians round the corner and an ageing Indian ODI team, we could be in for a hiding in the longer version of Limited overs Cricket.
For the moment though, let the words roll, let it roll, let it roll, let it roll!!
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anandkrishna | September 25, 2007 at 10:52 am
One statistic stands out- in “world cup” type settings, India have so far got the better of Pakistan in cricket. But whether this means they they can be labeled “chokers”, I am not sure. Given Misbah’s form, he should perhaps have played higher in the order. Wickets were falling with alarming regularity at the other end, and Misbah really did not have much choice in the last over but to try something different. If he had pulled it off, he would have been the toast of Pakistani cricket, being applauded for his cool head, calculated risk-taking and so on. But as things turned out, it was Joginder Sharma, who is well past his prime, who has become an unexpected hero. Which reinforces the cliche that cricket is a game of glorious uncertainties…..
And if you are not convinced, think of what might have happened had Sreesanth (or Sree Santh or however he now chooses to spell ihis name) dropped Misbah’s catch!
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Bharat | September 28, 2007 at 9:16 am
Of course, I am not playing labeling games but the whole cricketing world and Australia in particular relish is admonishing the South Africans as “chokers”.
My point is simple: Any batting team chasing a target in a must win situation is likely to stumble. It is just a statistic that SA have put themselves in such a situation more often that anyone else can remember and have failed spectacularly more often than anyone else too. Australia on the other hand have never allowed themselves to be cornered the way they were in the game against India.
It is pertinent to note here that Australia have won crunch games by finishing the match in the first inning itself. Remember the WC final 99, WC final 2003, 2007 and I am sure we can come up with many more. The cricketing world has seldom witnessed Australia come up trumps in tight games that go to the wire. In fact, if ever they have been cornered towards the end of a match where the proverbial “fear of losing” creeps in, they too have been found wanting. [the famous Calcutta test, Richard Hadlee series matches in NZ, the famous chase of 434 by SA, the Oval test among many others]
They have established their hegemony by bullying the opposition at the outset. The definitive mantra to beat Australia is to ensure the game is not over till the end; in other words ‘hang on’ in the game by however slender a thread. Of course, it is easier said than done since the Australians try to outclass you at the outset of a game and they have the most intimidating openers (both with the ball and bat) to do precisely this job.
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Bharat | September 28, 2007 at 9:23 am
by the way, Misbah didnt need to do anything different. He just tried to do something different. You dont try cute shots in the final over against a dibly dobly medium pacer. You try cute shots if you are up against a bowler who is bowling unerring yorkers at the death. Joginder Sharma was bowling offerings at 70kmph. Misbah had just thwacked him back over his head with both Mid-on and Mid-off in the deep.
Misbah just had a brain freeze. he was remebering how he could not finish it off in the first game against India which is why he tried to do “something different”. In fact, his last shot reminded me of Monty Python’s “And now for something completely different”; in other words “difference for the sake of being different” aka BRAIN FREEZE
5. Global Voices Online &raq&hellip | September 28, 2007 at 12:44 pm
[...] Anand Krishnan's Musings writes: “But the icing on the cake is that in the past couple of months, Indian tennis, badminton, field hockey and soccer have all taken India to levels that were associated with non-Indian nations. It is this “broad based rally” in Indian sport that makes me want to say, “chak de India”!” [...]
6. Global Voices हिन&hellip | September 29, 2007 at 8:19 am
[...] आनंद कृष्णन्स म्यूसिंग्स लिखते हैं : “सोने में सुहागा यह है कि पिछले कुछ महीनों में भारतीय टेनिस, बैडमिंटन, हॉकी तथा फुटबाल ने भारत को उस स्तर पर पहुँचाया है जहाँ गैर भारतीय द्वीप के देश अब तक सम्बद्ध रहे थे. यह भारतीय खेलों की वो “चहुँओर फैलती रैली” है जो मुझे ये कहने को मजबूर करती है – “चक दे इंडिया”!” [...]
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