Team http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750’s journey from boom to doom – The rulers dethroned
Life is marked with variation. Nothing is constant and stable. No rank, no status, no rule and no dynasty is permanent - all fall prey to the snare of change. Team India, which were resplendent with success, confidence and momentum a few months back, are
now tiptoeing with crippled confidence, shattered morals and lost pride. The former top-ranked team in International Test rankings is now unable to even justify the honour they were proud to have.
The Men in Blue’s three back-to-back defeats in the ongoing npower Test series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 marked the end of their reign, and earned them truckloads of shame, humiliation and criticism.
The heroes of yesterday became the villains of today. Their fans spat at them, media poured venom against them and cricket experts predicted a ‘bleak and black future’.
The sudden wreckage of the team’s smoothly sailing ship rocked http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028, the skipper, who had never dreamt of this loss in his cricket career.
It has not been so long when the Men in Blue made history by winning the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820, was indeed the biggest one in their cricket history.
The whole Indian nation, which takes cricket as their second religion, after cinema, were prostrating before the ‘cricket Gods’ who had translated their long-cherished dream into a reality with their perspirations, sleepless nights, and aching injuries.
Dhoni and his men became the protagonists and Team India turned to be the hot cake of International media, sporting forums and cricketing bodies.
Specially for Dhoni, there came another mega success shortly after the World Cup, in the shape of Chennai Super Kings’ victory in the Indian Premier League 4. The franchise was led by Dhoni to lift the second league title consecutively.
It was the peak time of the Indian cricket as the Blue Shirts were two-time World Champions along with being the world’s No 1 Test team - the tag they achieved in 2009, after strenuous efforts over years. It will not be wrong to say that the Test rank was
more significant for India than the World Cup title.
But all these honours, tags and glories were not destined to last long as the Men in Blue started considering themselves invincible and fell prey to overconfidence.
Having won the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 series after the World Cup, they landed on the English soil, aiming to overcome the last and the most potent threat to their cricket dynasty.
However, all went wrong as Dhoni churned out sorrowfully, stating, “everything that could go wrong, went wrong”. The Poms, who had achieved many successes in Test cricket under the meticulous leadership of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964, were anxiously waiting for crossing
the last step of the ladder that was going to place them at the top of the world Test rankings.
The npower Test series was destined to hit the Indians with a severe blow. No tactic, no strategy and no buddy of Dhoni worked against the English and India turned turtle in a blink of an eye.
Such a sudden journey from boom to doom is rare to be pointed out in the recent history of International cricket. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sourav-Chandidas-Ganguly-c90746, the former Indian captain, is right when he claims that he has never seen such a team in the last ten years.
At the moment, the Indians are devoid of everything as they have been dethroned from the rule of International cricket. Their honour has been trampled and their tags have been clinched.
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