Australia won 2 cups!

 Hi folks,

               After a fall from the grace with a painful thud this world cup, Indians have slowly got back to business of their lives.

              Some of you may have guessed with what I meant when I said Aussies won 2 'cups ' this time!! The second cup we gave them without our knowledge! 

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               It was terribly disappointing and unbearable day  for die hard Indian fans who made the gallery of the stadium uniformly blue to support 'men in blue!' Btw,  how many of us will know or go and cheer 'women in blue ' like this? No one, including me, knows who the captain of women's cricket team is. Nature and biology being partial to men, women can never match the speed and agility of their counterparts of men! Oops,  I veered away from the topic! When India won 10 matches in a row and looked to be invincible and a forgone conclusion, here came the men in yellow with a solid plan right from the winning of toss! And as they say, the rest is history and statistics! 

                  When everything went wrong for our team on that crucial day, the fans in the stadium started showing the colours along with blue(envy) . Silence and disappointment followed as we wondered how can men in blue fall from the grace! Even I thought cricket belongs only to India! We forgot that cricket is just a game! Fans have paid lakhs of rupees in black for tickets and hotel accommodation to brag 'I was there!'  When Travis Head hit century,  we forgot to give him standing ovation irrespective of the result! We booed the umpires decisions! The blue colour gave way to empty orange coloured seats! There were very less spectators to cheer the winning team! The cup presentation ceremony brought out some awkward moments as there was no positivity visible!!  The other set of dejected fans verbally targeted   the wives of cricketers! Glen Maxwell's Indian origin wife was trolled for supporting her husband's team and not India! The other players wives were also not spared!! There are other instances which  have exposed the lack of sportsmanship in our people. Of course,  it should not be denied that they do not represent majority and lot of Indians congratulated the winning team that was observed in various websites!

               The second 'cup' is Pat Cummins statement that nothing like silencing the crowd of 1.3 lakh audience and he succeeded or we allowed to succeed in that also! If the crowd stayed upto end and gave standing ovation to Australian team, he would have been forced to rewrite the script! Whether making a statement like ' I will silence the audience ' comes from a matured man or not is debatable!

Deepa.