http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 Cricket World Cup bid- Four in a row or the Isaac Newton case?
The Cricket World Cup 2011 has really begun. The tenth edition of cricket’s biggest extravaganza is really here, right here in the sub-continent. You have to pinch yourself to believe that the World Cup is really here as it doesn’t look like that it has
started.
Maybe it is because of the big teams being perched against the minnows. The opening game was fantastic, to say the least. The co-hosts, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 knocked out off the group
stages. But India got even, as they thrashed the Tigers on Saturday.
Day two of World Cup saw http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 slashed the Canadian as the Lankans won by 210 runs. The best part of the second game was when Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardena scored
the fastest ton of any Sri Lankan cricketer in a World Cup, and then he was gentleman enough to get out the next ball. Yes, this is how good the World Cup 2011 is turning out.
However, everything will be rested today as Australia will be taking on http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045. What joy, another minnow team getting ready to be thrashed. Now it does not matter, really, to not even see the match and you can predict the winner. Let alone the prediction,
you can go ahead just bet on Australia to win, and go into hibernation.
But the English fans won’t let you do this. They would rub in how they won the Ashes, aptly forgetting it was Test cricket (the 5-day format) and not the One day game. They would be decrying the World Cup and keep on asserting how the Ashes win is more important
than Prince William’s marriage. This would lead to the Test is the best versus One Day go down debate and many will claim this would be the last World Cup.
However, just to rub in, Australia then managed to beat England with a comprehensive 6-1 triumph. Australia renewed the Ashes-bruised confidence and amidst boos and the jeers, it seemed that they have forced some minds to change.
The three-time defeating World Cup champions headed to the sub-continent with brimming sun burn lotion and Ricky Ponting, hoping to be the four-peat champions.
And then, they managed to lose two warm-up matches ahead of the World Cup against India and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757.
Here is where Mr. Isaac Newton’s story comes in. One night, Sir Isaac was working late in his dorm room at the Trinity College. The poor guy got tired and fell asleep on his table, and the candle was burning. His dog knocked the candle over and it burned
the rolls of parchments that contained the adjustments of his intense mental efforts on Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, otherwise known as Principia Mathematica. Newton saw his work fly in dust as he stood aghast in the flying smuts, as he lost
all his reason.
This is how Australian cricket seems like. Even if they win today’s game, and they will, but what will happen after that? The variety of fast bowlers of the opposition will haunt the Australian bowlers while the spinners will be deluding the Kangaroos into
sleepwalking.
Then there is the sub-continent sun that is so harsh that it will be a huge slap on their faces.
Since Australia’s case is not seemingly strong, the only way the team can return with their heads high, back to the Land Down Under is by being judged on the most gracious and well-behaved team of the World Cup.
Now this is very unlikely of the Australian so maybe they just need to savour the experience and do some rework as Newton did to complete three editions of the Principia.
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