Lage Raho Chappel Bhai

I don't know whether to laugh or cry right now. We have been complaining about these group matches being predictable, well, I definitely got a surprise today. India, an experienced team, with record breaking players, beaten by....a bunch of kids. None of our players lived up to out expectations, apart from Sehwag. The only reason he did was because I never had any expectations from him to begin with!

Much to my despair, there seemed to have been a little trend in our innings - a wicket, then runs would trickle in, a wicket, then runs would trickle in, a wicket....where were the much needed partnerships? Only Ganguly, with his agonisingly slow 66 and Yuvraj with his cracking innings, managed to loosen the noose around our necks.A strong batting order ended up being a poor and pathetic list of victims for the Bangladeshi youngsters. Mortaza bowled Sehwag and trapped Uthappa. Razzak was like the cat that got the cream when he picked up Sachin in the 15th over.

What did they have? A 17 year old. What did we have? Sachin, a man with 17 years experience. The average age of the Bangladeshi players is equal to the number of centuries some of our team have! So where did it all go wrong?