Cricket is a game of glorious uncertainties, yet the performance of Team India against Australia, in the semi-finals of the ICC World Cup 2015, was devastatingly disappointing in all departments of the game. The loss, by 95 runs, has left the hearts of millions of cricket enthusiasts back in India bleeding.
K.R. Jayaprakash Rao,
Mysuru
India’s exit from the World Cup is a bitter pill to swallow. The collapse of the top batting order is especially hard to digest as the Sydney ground is a batsman’s paradise. India should have played with more caution considering its record in Sydney in the last 35 years. Australia, on the other hand, showed its great cricketing prowess; its batting was consistent and Smith’s brilliant century laid the foundation for Australia’s convincing victory.
Ramachandran Gururajan,
Chennai
Australia has arrested cricket fever in India by bundling out the Indian team for whose win cricket fans and even the media seem to have gone overboard, with meaningless debates, panel discussions and even prayers. Had India won the cup, we may have even declared it a national holiday, Parliament would have glorified the ‘cricket warriors’ and Bharat Ratnas may have been announced, forgetting our miserable position in other sporting disciplines.
Cricket is a whimsical game of chance and is unsuited to India given its impact on precious time, money and energy. We need to look at our cricket mania in perspective.
Y.S. Kadakshamani,
Madurai
