Try as well as hope and choose a path.
Then after this, look for some luck.
These lines of poet Nida Fazli appeared on the day of 31st December. There was a phone in my hand, in which a reel was playing. There was the same sadness of 19 December, sad music was playing in the background and once again the passing year reminded of the defeat of the Cricket World Cup. Like this lion, every cricket fan is trying to watch cricket after 19th November, is also keeping some expectations but is not able to move ahead because the destiny he is looking for has been left behind.
When the 90’s kids suffered the shock of the 2003 final, it took four years to recover from it. Because there was a lot of chaos in Indian cricket between 2003 and 2007. That means there were shocks after shocks, because this was the same period when Greg Chappell had come into the team and was destroying the respect of other players including Sourav Ganguly. Then came the 2007 ODI World Cup, I thought that now we will forget the old memories of 2003 but fate again went somewhere else, that 2007 World Cup was worse than 2003.
The T20 World Cup gave good memories in 2007. Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s fighters gave the country a chance to be happy. Which simultaneously forgot the sorrows of many World Cups, especially those of 2003 and 2007. The amazing thing is that you do not have to wait for four years to forget the sorrows of 2023, because the T20 World Cup is coming in just 6 months, the question is whether the T20 World Cup will forget all the sorrows like in 2007. .
But this time the atmosphere is a little different, because the injury of the 2023 ODI World Cup is very fresh. With great courage, the fans turned towards cricket again after the final on 19 November, and with renewed hope, watched the Test series in South Africa. But to add insult to injury, the worse the condition of Team India got, the way captain Rohit Sharma surrendered made it clear that the fans do not have the courage to see this team falling further.
But the question is that 2023 has broken so many hearts, so what will 2024 give now? Does 24 have enough power to erase the sorrow of Team India’s cricket fans? Does this seem possible, right now it doesn’t seem so at all. Let’s talk one by one, only 5-6 months are left for the T20 World Cup and it seems that the Indian team is not even remotely prepared for it and the fear is that in the end everything It will be done hastily and the dream will remain a dream again.
Right now BCCI does not even know who will be the captain in the T20 World Cup, sometimes there are discussions about Hardik Pandya and sometimes it is assumed that Rohit Sharma will remain the captain for now. The situation is such that discussions are taking place that Virat Kohli will also not be a part of the T20 World Cup. Will the young players who play consistently get a place in the team or not? Will we play T-20 cricket like this, or will our way of playing change? Nothing is clear yet, there are only questions. Which is in the minds of fans and players alike.
This is the reason why the new year already seems to scare cricket fans. Not only this, the matter will go further, because this will be the year when many star cricketers will probably be taking leave from the game. Mahendra Singh Dhoni might be playing IPL for the last time, perhaps Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma would also be taking the field for Team India for the last time, Ravichandran Ashwin might not be seen rotating after this year.
Who knows how many such maybes are there in the minds of cricket fans and among these maybes, that night of 19th November comes to the fore that maybe then we would have won. The year may be turning, but the sorrow of cricket fans is, perhaps, not over. But hopes are alive…
Someday the darkness will be dispelled with light,
But someday there will be a moonlit night.
