Is this sorrow a habit of the heart, otherwise
If there is any complaint against anyone.
These lines are of John Elia, but at this moment every cricket fan is humming them. Because defeat in the World Cup has become your habit and apart from the final, Team India’s performance in the entire tournament was such that you cannot even complain. This was the first time since 2011, when your team reached the finals.
There were expectations and it seemed that this time something will definitely happen. Everyone was imagining Rohit Sharma lifting the trophy. But in the middle of this dream, the Australian team arrived, just like it had arrived in 2003. Then Sourav Ganguly was on this side and now Rohit Sharma is there.
When the World Cup campaign started, there was a lot of fear in the minds of cricket fans. Bumrah was returning from injury, the middle order was not in form, what would happen to the opening. There were many such questions but Team India answered every question of its fans with every match, imagine that this team won 10 consecutive matches. No one won more matches than India in this World Cup.
Be it Rohit Sharma’s aggressive batting or Virat Kohli’s playing anchor innings. Shreyas Iyer made some mistakes in the beginning, but later he also came into form. You had expectations from the batsmen but the bowlers also made the whole task easy for you. Bumrah-Siraj in the beginning, then Mohammed Shami after the first change and the rotation of Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja in the middle overs, this was the story of every match and you won every match, except the final.
The biggest pain here is of Rohit Sharma, the 2011 World Cup took place in his home i.e. Mumbai but he was not a part of the team. In 2015 and 2019 he scored runs but the team did not win, this time he was the captain and also scored runs but the team still did not win. Now perhaps this opportunity will not come again for Rohit, because when the next World Cup takes place, he will be 40 years old and it is difficult that you will see him playing then.
The captain changed his game for you, gave you an aggressive start in every match. Took the team players along. We have seen those reels on social media, where Rohit repeatedly talks about the World Cup and says that I do not see any records, only the World Cup. Perhaps Rohit had applied the same formula. That’s why he was out 5 times in the score of 40 and 2 times in the score of 80 but there was no wrinkle on his forehead because it was much ahead of the record.
Well, it is a long evening of sorrow, but it is an evening after all. Indian fans are now used to losing in the World Cup, then there will be a wait of four years. Today you and I are sad but after a few days Team India will be in the field again. Then we will be supporting, keep the hope.
