There are always a certain mystic surrounding every sport, you can be a hero someday or a zero on some other day.
The shining example of Herschelle Gibbs, he was the guy who dropped the catch of Steve Waugh during the super six match against Australia in the '99 World Cup. I think he had his vengeance when he scored 175 against the same side recently(every1 knows abt this match). Ironically, he was dropped by Nathan Bracken.
One more quality of sport that I love is there is no value for reputation. i don't know why the reporters start saying before every match that this team is gonna win. Could anyone have predicted SA, termed as chokers, would have succesfully chased 434 in 50 overs. We have the best example before us even today, the famed batting line up of India will thrash the England bowlers on the Mumbhai wicket. Finally, England are on top of Day 2 of test match even though they are missing 5 of their first team players. Mind you England was on top in the past two test matches for the most part of the tests.
Unpredictability in result and the performance of both, the individual and the team, is what I love as well as hate about sport, as luck plays a very important role as well. Who knows if Gibbs had caught the catch 'properly' Australia mightn't have won the '99 World Cup.
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2 comments:
why did you put this in ur blog.. i thought u will put it in http://bayessaid.blogspot.com/
Anyways, u r tagged..
Why else do you think I place test cricket higher. The better team always wins I repeat always. Over 5 days if a team loses then it deserved to.
Look at the SA they lost the test match within 3 days. On the other hand the "strong" Indian batting line up is a misnomer. On form other than Dravid no one else would cause any of the bowlers sleepless nights.
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