i am an avid cricket fan accustomed to individual star performances and collective failures -am rubbing my eyes in disbelief and pinching myself-calling wake up , wake up this is a dream-india dominating the rampant aussies in the test series and winners of the series except for absolutely crass umpiring.
            what has inspired this blog is the return of the emperor-showing the pretenders their place-i am talking of sachin-the silken devastating touch of laxman-one of the most exciting batsmen to play the game-the guts of sourav, dravid-and the sublime underrated skills of indias best bowler ever-anil kumble.
       this blog is written or rather typed in an exalted mood-understandable when you see a raw young 19 year old pacer-built like a bean pole-in his first major tour has a bunny by the name of ricky ponting-acclaimed in australia-as the best batsman after bradman-i am talking of ishant sharma-and then you have another indian fast bowler-ishant can bowl at 150 and sreesanth can consistently bowl at 145-if that is not fast i will eat my nonexistent hat-and this boy had the whole australian team going verbally at him -the end result being a demolition of the australian batting by the most underrated pace attack in the world-and then you have a warrior like irfan pathan-there was a saying about ken barrington of england-when he walked onto the field, you felt the union jack fluttering-i feel the same about this fighter i am talking of irfan pathan-and you have zaheer khan and rp singh waiting.
                     virender sehwag the most successful opener after sunil gavaskar-the only triple century maker from india-13 centuries-the most destructive opener after matthew hayden-let us welcome him back to the fold-a rare talent like sehwag has to fire only once in three innings for the opposition to be in disarray-the batsmen to follow-
you have the likes of jaffer, gambhir, karthik, akash chopra,uthappa for the opening slot-rohith sharma,manoj tewary,suresh raina,chethswar pujaraetc for the middle order slots-and i have not talked of the maturirity of dhoni in the middle order.
             coming to the most important question-the next captain after kumble-still dhoni-ahead by a whisker from sehwag-yuvraj is in real danger of losing his place in both forms of the game-the dividing line between being good and great is temparament and application-and that is where yuvaraj has always failed.
           the sting in the tail-india is already the best cricketing team in the world and neither the team nor we have woken up to this fact!