Monday, March 9, 2015

The Cricket World Cup and its changing standards.

The term CRICKET doesn't needs any introduction no more. It has flourished its root all over the world and our country is definitely one among those who play the best of Cricket in the world. Cricket is not a game for us it is a religion and Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is the living God we worship. 


This religion has a kumbh organised every forth year and this grand organization is commonly called "The Cricket World Cup". The very first World cup tournament was played in 1975 in England and since then this event has been occurring at a fixed interval of four years. And a lot has been changed ever since.

And if we are talking about the changes I have really admired that the standard of our Indian scot has been impressively improved since last few years. We have won this cup twice, have been the runner up once and have qualified for semifinals once excluding the current going World Cup.


The performance of our team has been at the best since last few World Cup and I say this because we won the World Cup in 2011 and have been the runner up in 2003 and in the current going on tournament we have been leading the group stats with no loss and all win in the 2015 World cup.


There has been few players like Sachin, Sehwag, Ganguly, Zahir, Harbajan, Dhoni, Yuvraj and many more who pledged to give their best and they in fact did and won a world cup for us. Not only these players but the current team has also shown their nerves of steel and are ready to over run any opponent whom so ever it may be. The bars of standard has been raised and are being raised every day by the performance of players like Virat, Rohit, Rahane, Shikhar, Dhoni, Ashwin, Raina, Sami and many more.


The team has taken a pledged to perform to the best of their standard and win the cup again for us. It was during the first IPL that I met Watson at The Park Kolkata hotel where I was working and I asked him that what the best thing about cricket was and he said, "The best thing cricket gives you is the chance to play for your nation in the world biggest tournament The World cup". Other players like Yuvraj and Sreesanth had the same view about the World cup.


Time has changed and even the format of the game has taken few turns but yet every World cup brings a glimpse of the standard that the cricketers have raised. The bar has been set high and the players have been working hard to set their own playing standards high. And this standard will bring us the World Cup again.

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