What a match it was....

While making my first post here about the world cup cricket, I hardly thought that I will have to mention about it again and probably that has made my first post look like an essay describing India's world cup campaign as someone pointed out. But things seem to be changing a lot. India registered their first ever victory over Australia since 1987 in a super-entertaining world cup match at Motera, Ahmedabad. Since I have started watching television or following cricket, this is something which has happened for the first time. I was thinking India will be under tremendous pressure due to their earlier losses to the Aussies (specially in 2003 world cup final), and being in a home ground would add more to it rather than taking it off. But the way they performed was simply brilliant. Unlike in the earlier matches they played in this tournament, I did not have a single world of criticism for them yesterday. They looked quite energetic in bowling as well as fielding in the first innings. Although the Aussies were restricted to a score of 260, the tension was not yet over since India's lower-middle order batting have not performed at all in this tournament. They performed like chokers (which South Africans used to do) in most of the games. But yesterday was special, except Dhoni, there were no single digit score by any of the seven batsmen who played. Three of them scored half century as well which I consider much better performance than one batsman scoring more than 150 and rest having single digit scores. Indians did a great teamwork in all three departments and this is the very thing which was missing in them in earlier matches. And with such teamwork, Indians are simply unbeatable in this tournament. Hope they will play with this same spirit in the biggest ever match in this tournament coming on Wednesday: clash of two arch-rivals India and Pakistan.