At last, the Indians have won the first T20 World Cup tournament in a cliff-hanger thriller finish. Or one can say, the team of 2020 has born. Whether ex-President Kalam’s visionary 2020 India is made or not, but India is capable of building a team for 20-20 at the least!
Now, for another 48 hours, no news is too big for our entire media channels that will cover nothing but the historic (?) win of India in 20-20 World Cup. Even the news of Rahul Gandhi becoming the general secretary of INC (though it is a known fact and was only a matter of time) has taken a back seat. The media even covered the Kabirkhan aka shahrukh Khan congratulating the winning Indian team (dont ask what did SRK do to Indian cricket team)
Nothing succeeds like Success! This is proven in this episode. A man, who was questioned of his wicket-keeping skills or lack of it and was supposed to be dropped from the team, is turned into a sudden hero. He has become wisdom of cricket, leader of future and everybody says now that Indian cricket is in safe hands now!
It is a known fact that we, Indians are highly reactive and when we react we go to the extremes and always go over board! Be it hailing some one or criticizing, we knew only the extreme. Never our comments were in analytical mode. We have stopped thinking by brains and are doing with emotions.
Let’s go hypothetical now. Had the 18th, 19th and 20th overs against Australia had gone the other way – or worse, had Joginder was hit for runs on the 20th over, Mahi, our hero today would have been pulled from all corners for that decision. Even those who knew no cricket would give a comment on his captaincy!
Same way in the finals too! Pakistanis had the match in their way all the time. 6 runs from 4 balls. They could have chosen to take singles and an odd couple, but they thought otherwise. The batsman thought an innovative shot (made popular by Johnson of Zimbabwe) only to be caught! Had the bailed sailed across, today Mahi would have been ripped apart by our media and so-called experts of the game!
Thankfully for Dhoni, Lady Luck smiled on him. He is now hailed as the greatest captain India ever had. Though I agree that he kept his cool, I doubt, he would prove to be a good captain. He still has a long way to go and it is too early to burden him as a captain. He has to learn keeping, has to improve his batting skills (though he literally bullies the ball around, he does not play the game) and most of all, of course, the cricketing skills.
It was good decision that the trio had ruled themselves out of this tournament. Perhaps, they never thought that this game would get so much of publicity! Had they were genuine; they should have said the same no to even the ODIs.
Its all in the game. We have got a good, young team who has potential. Now one has to wait and see, how far this potential takes our cricket in 2020!
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