World Cups and Heart Aches - A un-ending love story
We are all cricket experts in our own right. Armchair critics to speak. We have a billion opinions on everything, even though our skillsets may warrant at best a selection to our local gully cricket team. So yes this is another ‘opinion’ which needs to be taken with dollops of salt. While I am still grieving over the debacle on the 19th, I thought the best way to get over it, was perhaps to pen my thoughts. I would be the first to admit, that before the World Cup, I gave our team no chance. I knew we were going to be quite a handful in our backyard and we had the talent to make it to the Semis, but I wasn’t very happy about the whole chopping and changing that was happening over the past few months and we had our middle-order (KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer) out injured. It felt like deja-vu that we were going into yet another World Cup not having the right middle order. All that changed during the Asia Cup. Shreyas and KL made superb comebacks and played well. What was impressive was...