A lot of expectations were on India in the morning when they conceded just 86 runs at the stroke of lunch at 11-30AM(IST).
All the expectations of Indian fan had natural death by the evening.
Gloom prevailed over Wankhede&darkness in the ninds of every cricket lover,when
they saw all the leading batsmen fell like ripe mangoes or rather like a pack of
cards at stumps on day3.
A lead of 225 runs could have been sufficient to remove Englishmen as is obvious,
the way Monte Panesar a spinner from England did.
But whats the use of crying over spilt milk?
But these things are not unusual in cricket.
This has happenrd all over the cricket playing countries also.
Thats why this game is called a "GLORIOUS GAME OF UNCERTAINTY"
In 1983 this had happened to the uncrowned king of Cricket WEST INDIES.
West Indies was reigning over the cricket world with 3 straight wins in the World CricketCup.
They had the skipper Clive Llyod,Vivian Richards,Haynes,Greenidge,Kallicharran,Hall,Griffith,Malcom Marshal&many more in their team.
But they lost the World Cup to India who had scored just under 200 runs.It was a topic for discussion for a long time when West could not achieve a target put up by India.
In the same World Cup Zimbabwe a team ,even unknown to many then, was about to beat India
to knock her out of the Tournament.But then,Kapil Dev the skipper of India rose to the occasion &scored an unbeaten 175 runs which enabled India to reach the final against West Indies.
There was none today to rise to the occasion other than Goutam Gambhir ,who is still at the crease with a hard earned 50 .
Harbhajan singh is giving company to him to face the inevitable tomorrow.
In the last world Cup in in India ,Australia&Srilanka were sure to reach final.
But both were defeated by India.India eventually lifted the World Cup.Ricky Ponting
and Sangakkara had to resign from captaincy.
So anything can happen tomorrow.
Let us wish success to this Glorious game of ncertainty.
Bye.
SreedharanMundanat
25th November 2012
18-25 Hrs(IST)
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