India Makes History...Of The Good Kind

Don't look now but India just created some history of the good kind by winning the fourth ODI against Sri Lanka thereby getting their first Series win, ever! over there.

Nicely done.


Especially when you consider that India were completely outplayed in the final deciding match of the Test series and then got thumped in the first ODI.


If this was the old Indian team, they would have folded straight away, but not Mahendra Singh Dhoni's unit. Some countries (like India) have the two-captain strategy (one for Tests the other for ODIs) but I think we're the only ones with a two-team strategy. I mean who are these guys? V. Kohli, R.G. Sharma, S. Badrinath, S.K. Raina (okay so the last one isn't so unfamiliar)...the batting lineup is almost completely different from the ones they use in Tests.

Maybe these young kids are the answer? Maybe (as much as I loathe to admit it) it's time to turn the page on the old faithfuls with Australia-like ruthlessness and start this youthful revolution in the longer form of the game?

The funny thing is that it was Zaheer Khan's bowling that helped India win the second and third ODI. That's right, I said bowling. Crazy.


And Dhoni played some clutch captain's knocks, like the kind Rahul Dravid used to turn out time after time, before he became captain. I'm not ready to love Dhoni yet; for some inexplicable reason he begged off the Test series because of, wait for it, fatigue. Not injury, but fatigue. C'mon man, if you truly are going to become the hero you are destined to become, you have to show up when it hurts, when your country needs you, not just when you feel like it.

But, for now, in the wake of India's unlikely and historic victory, I love ya man!


LINKS

Cricinfo: India Seal Maiden Series Triumph in Sri Lanka
Cricinfo:Dhoni Binds a Winning ODI Package