Who is to blame ?

The stage was set. The crowd in Kanpur was roaring, as India is a country where people worship Cricket and are extremely vehement and fanatic about it. They were hoping to see a good competition and were silently praying, so that the match would go on without interruption by 'Mr.Rain' as the third T-20 match was washed away due to this unavoidable factor. The match begun and here are some of the key highlights:

1. From a mere 250 in 47 overs, South Africa went on to score 303 in 50 overs. (Can't do much if the superman AB de Villiers is on strike and Ashwin was injured).

2. Rohit made an impeccable 150. (Nearly half of the required score). I am feeling really sorry for this guy. His hundred in first T-20 was also wasted.

3. Having to require 35 runs in 24 balls with 7 wickets remaining, it wasn't a tough job. (But then you never know, Cricket is full of twists and turns).

4. India lost. (By 5 runs only, believe me losing by 50-100 is less painful).

Now the 'blame game' started. Here are few of the targets:

Target 1- Mahendra Singh Dhoni

The helicopter shot owner seems to be losing momentum. He managed a single four in his innings on sunday, which led to the required run-rate getting higher and higher.  His all-time strategy of taking the game to the last over is not at all working these days.

Target 2- Virat Kohli

Though he is not criticised much as compared to MSD but his form is also a major issue to look upon. With an average of just 29.92 in ODIs, this year seems to be the worst one for Virat Kohli.

Target 3- Bowlers

I don't know the reason, but indian bowling side seems to be the constant problem all these years. Ashwin's injury is just icing on the cake. Though Mishra bowled really well but the inability of the bowlers, to take wickets at regular intervals  is posing a problem.

Now, I would like to highlight two more points in this context.

1. People will now say "One bad match, and everyone seems to forget who you are". But search carefully mate. Series loss in Bangladesh, Losing two T-20 matches recently, Losing the first ODI and the list goes on. (And no one ever wonders why Sachin Tendulkar is known as the "God of Cricket"? It is simply because of his 'evergreen' form which almost remained consistent throughout his career).

2. I would also like to highlight the issue which happened in Cuttack.( The impudence shown by the crowd). After India 's poor performance, the crowd started throwing water bottles on the field. And Sunil Gavaskar commented," If you don't throw valuables when India wins a match, then You have no right to throw garbage when India loses". Correct, Indeed correct. Throwing rubbish on the field is simply wrong. What picture of India are you showing to the foreigners?? Simply not correct. But Mr. Gavaskar, I would also like to add that people have already spent their valuables, when they bought the ticket for this ODI. For a middle class person or a poor person, an amount of Rs.500 or Rs.1000 is a big amount man. He could have invested this amount elsewhere. So please cool down.