pak should be heading home will Indi a follow them we will know in a few days ..but one thing is clear since dadas return all other guns have stopped firing specially Dravid ..and for the coach he better not return to India just take a flight back home if India does not enter semis knowing the passion for cricket in India

This is the kind of pressure applied to the teams of both India and Pakistan and hence their failures in large tournaments. There is definitely a difference between motivation and pressure.

At least in one Indian magazine I read at most regularly, Sachin is always portrayed as God, Yes God. I doubt he himself would like it coz it cost him to perform more and hence his stress and poor performance. Such an ultra talented person is just wasted by putting enormous pressure. We all know Lara, another wonderful player underperformed due to execessive pressure applied on him but he bounced back when the board realized (to some extent atleast).

We can't always keep winning, All it matters is "Did we put the fight or just gave up"?

I have hardly heard any Post-mortem work is done in India after losing a match or tournament. It is usually followed by some effigy burning, stone pelting at players residence in place of any analysis. Though a Sport is quite related to emotions but these emotions do require strategy and strategy is usually resulted by sufficient home work and conducive environment. Hyper fans of India and Ultra hyper fans in Pakistan will never let such thing happen.

Well, quite unfortunately I am not really different when it comes to the game, coz...,

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pak should be heading home will Indi a follow them we will know in a few days ..but one thing is clear since dadas return all other guns have stopped firing specially Dravid ..and for the coach he better not return to India just take a flight back home if India does not enter semis knowing the passion for cricket in India

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The cowards never started,
The weak died on the way,
Only the strong arrived.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yK1i9cLAMM

It is just a game and should be kept at that.

And yeah, results are always proportional to the effort that goes into things. Yeah, this applies to cricket too.

Trinity

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It's going to be a disaster for the marketing if both Pak & Ind lose out!

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Are you there?

If India loses to SL, as JRF pointed out, there will be some stone pelting etc. But public memory is short and everything will be forgotten in couple of months. How come Bdesh won? Thx to the coach Dave Whatmore. He had trained SL before now is coaching Bdesh. Now u see the results. If Bdesh reaches the super 8 (I think they will) with India (?) and Pak out, then that's a huge accomplishment.

DIO

Hi,
I agree that it is agme and anything can happen.But then Indian team has to perform their bbest..they show their best performances only on televison commercials..Have you guys seen the advt in which they become tigers to run after coca-cola bottles...

But on the field yesterday they were like goats..who could not even make a good decent score against a team like bangladesh..see otehr teams like australia and south africa,they are making 300+ in these matches...why india couldnt make a big toatl...

And for bowling so many extras-wides,no balls...it was pathetic...

May God help them in the up-coming matches...

The reason the cricketers are in commercials is because the advertisers know that markerting them sells - it is as simple as that. Whether or not it makes sense to portray them for the said product is another question (debatable). For instance: These guys endorse everything under the sun from biscuits to bikes.

That said, whatever happens here, life will back to what it used to be in a few days, months and all will be forgotten. Only cure is a place in the team should be earned and not be gifted (hint: Aussie team). If anything, we should realize that.

Trinity