Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Dream Team



This blog is part of Blogger Dream Team.

A sportsperson with a determined aim to win and achieve success puts in lots of hard work, where competition is always tough and the wining margins are close. Performance, endurance, synchronized coordination of mind and body plays a very important part in the winning shot. We win sometimes and we loss on other times. It’s never same. We just need to learn how every defeat can be turned to a win with optimism and hard work.

Cricket is the most popular and loved game in India.  In every corner, lane or street we can find a win as well as a defeat. Adding to the flavor is the ongoing world cup, the excitement is insurmountable. With India high on the scale of winning this time and the fingers are crossed till team India comes back with the world cup trophy.

No doubt that the performance of our team has improved a lot. Standards indeed have lifted up. And behind the success is never ending determination of our players. Being a cricketer is not easy; the way this game is followed and enjoyed in our country adds lot of limelight. In the course it puts up a lot of pressure on players. With hundreds of camera following each and every move, millions 
watching over, with lot of hope and expectations, puts up undue pressure on a player. With incidents of frivolous violence sometimes being reported in media, needs some generous attention, any athlete for better coordination while playing needs to have a calm and cool mind. 

India is has large pool of talented people. We need to harness the talent. There are no boundaries attached to a sportsperson. Sports academies, fitness centers, working in real  spirit, is the need of time. With schools focusing solely on academic development should rethink when a talent is getting hidden under the books. With development of sports academies, centers and encouraging sports at the school level shall definitely raise the bar. 

Winning world cup first time in year 1983 followed by 2011 and first twenty -20 world cup in 2007, was a landmark win. Indian left its mark loud and clear at the international level. Facing lots of highs and lows, a phase of down curve followed by a significant rise, is the trend of Indian cricketing scene.
The present statistics of ongoing world cup shows clearly the superb performance by our team:-

ICC CWC 2015
Pool B

Team
Mat
 Won 
 Lost
 Tied 
 N/R
  Net RR
 For
 Against
   Pts


India
  6
    6
   0
   0
  0
+1.827
1444/243.3
  1231/300.0
   12


South Africa  
  6
    4
   2
   0
  0
+1.707
1878/297.0
  1371/297.0
     8


Pakistan
  6
    4
   2
   0
  0
-0.085
1430/293.1
  1474/297.0
     8


West Indies
  6
    3
   3
   0
  0
-0.053
1485/278.3
  1524/283.0
     6


Ireland
  6
    3
   3
   0
  0
-0.933
1623/295.1
  1820/283.0
     6


Zimbabwe
  6
    1
   5
   0
  0
-0.527
1680/296.0
  1840/296.4
     2


UAE
  6
    0
   6
   0
  0
-2.032
1245/300.0
  1525/246.4
     0

Pool A

New Zealand
6
6
0
0
0
+2.564
1232/195.2
1123/300.0
12


Australia
6
4
1
0
1
+2.257
1419/215.2
967/223.1
9


Sri Lanka
6
4
2
0
0
+0.371
1788/295.4
1703/300.0
8


Bangladesh
6
3
2
0
1
+0.136
1392/248.1
1362/248.5
7


England
6
2
4
0
0
-0.753
1327/268.1
1338/234.4
4


Afghanistan
6
1
5
0
0
-1.853
1033/274.3
1419/252.4
2


Scotland
6
0
6
0
0
-2.218
1199/300.0
1478/237.5
0


Other Major Tournaments
(Statistics courtesy: Wikipedia, BCCI)

There is also Indian women's cricket team with fairly good performance, winning their first Asia Cup in 2004, this followed by many more laurels and achievement won by team.
Though I am not much of a cricket fan, but I enjoy seeing when India wins, patriotic feelings are high that time. Getting ridiculed on losing and treated like kings on winning is not an apt behavior on our part, we should accept defeat with a smile as we cherish high on every win. Without any doubt our players work hard, they are determined and committed, and they have their struggles but they come out with great colors.

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