Bleed Green - India vs. Pakistan

Many of the experts in the world or our leaders have emphasized on this that "Our two countries shared the same destiny". Its there destinies have brought them against each other. As I wrote in my previous blog that Pakistanis had there revenge against Australian's. We took ours by knocking them out of the world cup. Both the countries had there revenges, which again adds to there incredible journey. Not to forget the humiliating exit from the 2007 world cup where both the teams knocked out of the world cup in span of 1-2 days.

Its really ironic that the teams who were considered to be the starters or new comers to the T20 game reached the finals of the inaugural edition of T20 world cup. They produced some pulsating cricket where they played with the pride and produced pulsating finishes. But this blog is for ODI cricket so we wont touch the T20 format now. I had to write this because it was the memorable moments for our generation as many of us have not seen the victory of 1983 world cup.

Its been a incredible journey of 2 teams where India was considered to be favorites and Pakistan wan't. Both teams had different approach or experiences in the games previous to this encounter. Pakistan had very easy games till now where in one of the game they got a humiliating loss against Kiwi's. I cannot say this in case of India, in fact they were in the tough group and hand to battle there way out of the first round. They had to wait for the loss of Bangladeshi's against SA. But any how both teams cleared first round.

In Quarter Finals each team had completely different experience where on one side Pakistan won the match pretty easily. They won like a champion side which bulldozed there way to semi's over WI. In that match I was expecting bit of fight from WI but you all know what happened. Where in case of India, we had toughest match in the tournament. Australia put forth the tricky target of 260 on a pitch where we lost more game than we won. It was the 3 times man of the match who helped team Blue to ecape the Quarter Final Blues.ha ha..

 This Quarter final matches have given a very wrong impression to Pakistani people that there team can win. I mean the team who was in the easy group had only one tough match or nothing at all. They had only 5 tough overs against the Kiwi's and in that too they faltered. Pakistan semifinal match also raised the expectation of the teams performance by hapless west indian's (God know how much more they will fall).

In case of India, we were in tough group, which was bit dramatized by the unpredictable England. This England was different from old where they either only used to loose the matches. This changed the the scenario of the group B. We had to win the last match to go through the Quarter Final and it took last match of the league. Even after qualifying to the Quarters, mighty Australians were waiting for us. They gave a very good fight, the fight we expect in the Quarter Finals unlike Pakistanis who had very easy game.

The Pakistani greats are harping on the fact that they are superior bowling side, I don't know to against which batting side's performance they are comparing. Wickets taken against the Canada, Kenya and Zimbabwe or for that matter NZ are going to be yardstick then India's state teams will be having the superior attack like Pakistan.

These encounter have been the end point of many cricketers carriours. Many pakistani greats got retired after experiencing the lows in these matches like Javed Miandad, Moin Khan, Saeed Anwar, Ameer Sohail etc..now its time to retire Yunis khan and Misbaah. Not to forget the Shoaib Akhtar who was always been the threat to the team India.

I came to know the similar gesture by our PM Manmonhan Singh when he invited Parvez Musharraf to watch the match. That match India lost but this time will be different. This Pakistani team is no match to team India so they should stop day dreaming. This encounter will be one sided.

Pakistan is a depressed nation right now who loves to live in denials. They will fight to tooth and nail to deny that India is a superior side, let them have some good moments because come wednesday they will cry there eyes out..ha ha ha...

Best of Luck Team India