Up
- India did well without their seniors in the ODIs
- Tendulkar helped India win two finals
- Dhoni led from the front
- Harbhajan Singh managed to dodge charges leveled against him without evidence
- India let Brag Hogg go, even though he used abusive words against the Indian captain
- Bad umpiring was penalized. Steve Bucknor got his well deserved punishment for bad umpiring (long due, he seemed biased against India)
- Hayden was reprimanded for denigrating an Indian player
- Australian public criticized the spirit of the Australian Cricket team for unfair play
Down
- Adam Gilchrist, a well respected cricketer retired
- Michael Clarke got away, even though he tackled Tendulkar in the finals
- Symonds seemed out of form
- Ricky Ponting seemed out of form
- Australian players got away by claiming catches that they really failed to hold on to
- Australian media for looking foolish after every charge they leveled against the Indian team players were waved off
4 comments:
Are you sure the last down is really a down? I think it should come as an up.
BTW, Tendulkar winning India two finals is a down imo. The young brigade should have played a greater role there. Sachin is not going to be there for much longer.
Yes, the last one was the action of the media in trying to act as referees. I don't think Tendulkar finally being worth the cost we pay for him is a down :)
I think he helped Sharma and others understand what it takes to win and got his first ODI century in Australia. How can that be a down?
From my point of view, the biggest up was that India played as a real cohesive team rather than as individual stars. The media may focus on some individuals, but the matches really felt like a team effort, including our spectators.
Oh! yes and I loved the fighting spirit, despite going down in the test-series, just scraping through to the finals and all the bad publicity, we won 2-0. Everyone contributed, Kumar and Ishant bowled beautifully in the beginning. Harbhajan got his bunnies in the middle and then it was up to Tendulkar and Uttapa, Sharma, Yuvi, Dhoni.
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