Monday, March 3, 2008

India should WIN the 2nd final!

Predictably, the OZ are under immense psychological stress after their stunning defeat at the hands of the adorable Indians in the CB series final (1st ODI). Just a day before the match, Ponting, in one of his columns, mentioned that "Third final won't be needed"!! All he meant was that the team winning the first ODI would inevitably win the second one too. He, probably, was super-confident that his "champion" team could overcome the young Indian side with amazing ease, which was not to be so!

With India winning the first final, the OZ now realize that they need more than their sledging to come back in the series. Perhaps this is the reason the aussie spectators, who are not used to enjoy their team losing (in the recent times), and the aussie media, which is trying every possible 'tactic' to distract the Indian players, have pitched in to help the Oz, but in vain!

They criticized Sachin Tendulkar for his inability to score a ton in Australia......little did they expect him to fire all cylinders against the hosts, that too in a final!! Next, they targeted the 'turbanator' bhajji with reports claiming him showing "monkey gestures" at the crowd!! If Sachin silenced them with a magnificent hundred at the SCG (they should re-christen it as 'Sachin's Cricket Grounds' -- LOL), the ICC gave the blow by dismissing the harbhajan episode without even a hearing!

That the Oz are un-sportsmanly and desperate to win is evident from all the incidents that has happened so far in the series down under. The belief of the aussies is already in shambles and the Indians have a great chance to give it all to the team that has been the worst behaved unit in the cricketing history I've known so far!! If it was Symonds who cheated a catch in one of the Test matches, it was Mathew Hayden who sledged the 'kid' Ishant Sharma!

I am sure the aussies will try to do every damn thing in this world to win the 2nd final of the CB series. But the Indians now posses the ultimate weapon - "CONFIDENCE" to dethrone the aussies from the numero uno position and one of the 'steps' towards that goal is sealing the CB Series 2-NIL!!

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