SRI'S Blog

The West Indies had the last laugh in both forms of the T20 World Cup. First their Women out batted the Aussie Women to break the Aussie monopoly on Women’s T 20 World Cup  and  then their men blew hot and cold before a storm called Carlos Braithwaite  wiped England out . But before they got to the Finals , the West Indies ( WI ) , did the unthinkable – knocking host and favourite India out of the Contention. The semifinal between India and  WI was a great match . India batting first , put runs on the board—thanks once again to Virat—Exceptional batting and  superb running between the wickets, made sure India got to a total that to me was probably twenty runs short . Although we made good progress , there was no big overs in the innings that would have helped India get to a 215-220 and that probably cost us the match. WI although losing Gayle had enough hitters ( not batters ) who went about the task merrily to get them home very easily. Lendl Simmons wh...

I had restrained writing on this favourite Indian  sport  till the group league matches were completed and we had the four semifinalists identified ( West Indies , England , New Zealand and India ).  With that now cleared  , here is my take  : India came in to the tournament as the Favorites to win – Plenty of reasons : 1.        No reason – India will win, that is all. 2.        Home matches , crowd support , better equipped to manage the local conditions 3.        Run of the form – India have done extremely well in the lead up to this tournament – beat Australia at their own backyard 3 – 0 and then clinched the Asia Cup in the same formats. 4.        It was time to recapture the cup that we last won in 2007 in the inaugural tournament But the four matches that the Indian team played so far  , they would have pushed the...