ICC Twenty20 World Cup

Move over Cricket - Let's switch to Football.

The Indian Cricket Team has disappointed us time over time...over time and then continued to disappoint us some more.

In the 1996 World Cup, we threw it away at Eden Gardens against Sri Lanka. Their swashbuckling opening duo was back in the pavilion before they had barely opened their respective accounts. A dramatic collapse and Vinod Kambli's tears coupled with a massive no. of bottles thrown on the pitch is all we might remember.

In the 1999 World Cup we threw it away against Zimbabwe! We were pretty much the worst team in the Super Sixes and all you might remember is Dravid and Ganguly blasting Sri Lanka away at Taunton and Sachin Tendulkar's fathers demise. Well thankfully these 3 oldies have been dropped from the Twenty20 squad.

In the 2003 World Cup we were the luckiest team in the whole Cup. Imagine having to play Kenya in the Semi-Finals? We were deservingly thrashed by Australia in the finals. I bet most of you won't even remember who Australia beat in the other semis?

Come 2007. We were sending the strongest Indian Team to the Caribbean. A Billion Blue Fans. Nike pumping in money...Reebok pumping in money...Adidas pumping in money...Pepsi pumping in money...VISA pumping in money....etc etc.

What the @#$% happened? We were mauled by the Bangladeshis and the Lankans. Back home before the Tournament even started!

Isn't it time we give the other games a chance? I'm happy a movie like Chak De has done really well. I hope it encourages kids to take up hockey. A movie titled Goal is soon to come out and I'm sure it'll inspire more than a dozen kids to take up Football.

...It's about time!
After the success of the Indian Football team in the Nehru Cup (Though many of you might not even be aware of that), we definitely need to promote the Beautiful Game in our country. Football is the most widely played sport in the whole wide world. As a nation with the world's second largest population - it's disgusting to see that your country is not even featured in the Top 100 ranked Footballing nations.

I wouldn't advocate supporting the National Football League with extreme passion from tomorrow - because the quality is pretty disappointing there.

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