Have heart guys- A plea....

Hi,
Please stop sending Derogatory Emails and SMSes about our team.OK, It is

kinda acceptable if we have an instinctive reaction over the shock
elimination. But, after all it was just a matter of two games, wasn't
it?
You mean to say, we have all been successful and always delivered when
the onus was on us? Certainly not, If we had we would have been IITians
and IIMians or probably doing our MS in MIT and definitely not what we
are today. The whole country tearing apart an already dejected group of
15 young guys is pathetic to say the least. Feel for them.
All of them must have put in their every bit into their preparation for
this world cup( After all, Who wants to come home empty handed).
And all this talk about they playing for money and too much endorsement,

they dont make any sense. Admitting the fact that there are occassional
cricketers who were involved in betting, I think any ordinary human
would strive to give his 200% when he plays for his country. People who
must have represented their school or college would know that. That
adrenaline flowing in you would make you forget about all the wordly
things and would motivate you to die on the field.
Do we people mean to say, Players like Sachin, Dravid and Saurav who
have scaled literally every peak and have accumulated more money than
most would still be lured by it. If Pepsi approaches a cricketer for an
Adv, It is simply because it wants to stay ahead of its competitors and
we are projecting as if cricketers go begging for Advs...
With due respect to the Aussies, What do you feel is the reason they are

able to perform day in and day out. It is because there is hardly any
furore over there when they people lose and nobody gives a damn when
Ponting has a string of failures. But Imagine the case when sachin
scores three single digits in a row. people would start writing
obituaries on him. The very next day if he scores a century, the same
fella would be kept on a pedestal and all kinds of comparisons with Don
comes from nowhere..
Before Signing off, I have an article from a carribean newspaper, Go
through it and after that If you feel what I wrote makes sense to you
and has brought about a change within you, please do forward it.
C'mon maan.... Lets support our own players in this hour of crisis and
stop criticizing them endlessly.

jus to add up with the previous mail...


When Tendulkar cried


ANTIGUA, March 26: Team India is set to return home but most players
have yet to recover from the sight of Sachin Tendulkar openly shedding
tears after the loss to Sri Lanka on Friday.


Tendulkar had tears streaming down his cheeks after Munaf Patel was
caught on the squareleg fence by Chaminda Vaas. It brought to end
India's disastrous chase of Sri Lanka's reasonable target and more or
less shut them out of the 2007 World Cup.


Tendulkar, who had contributed nothing to India's chase earlier in the
day, being clean bowled by Dilhara Fernando, first tried to control his
emotions but unable to do so, locked himself in the bathroom lest he
made a spectacle of self in the public.


A couple of junior cricketers in the side were so taken aback by the
sight that they themselves started to cry.


It's little secret that Tendulkar desperately wanted to do well in this
World Cup and be a part of the winning team. The "little master" in his
glorious career more or less achieved everything he set out to do, but
his World Cup dream is unlikely to be realized now.


Young fast bowler S Sreesanth's emotions got better of him as he too
broke into tears. He was consoled by close friend Robin Utthapa, who on
his part was so nervous and upset that he kept drinking cups of coffee.
Sreesanth just couldn't stop crying and kept saying: "Why God did this
to us?"


While Tendulkar and Sreesanth gave vent to their emotions, fast bowler
Zaheer Khan broke a chair in the dressing room. After making a
spectacular comeback to the Indian team, Zaheer's colleagues said that
he was desperate to make amends from the last World Cup final where he
let his adrenalin get better of him.


Rahul Dravid, by all accounts, was himself tearful while Sourav Ganguly,

behind his glasses, sat stunned on his seat.


Coach Greg Chappell had given up on the team during the match. As soon
as Mahendra Singh Dhoni was out, going back and finding himself plumb in

front to Muthiah Muralitharan, he got up and switched off the
television.


As far as he was concerned, there was little else to see.


His vision and work of past 18 months had come crashing down in a matter

of a week...


Thanking you,

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