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A Blog by Karthik Parthasarathy, 27.03.2007

Same old scenario. Same old Climax and the things that followed them. Not much difference. It has all happened before.
Remember the time when India was shot out for 54 chasing Sri Lanka's massive 280 odd score.
Remember the time when India lost the Independence cup held in India.
Remember the times when India was blanked out time and again in the overseas test series.

It has all happened before.

We have ditched the team when it needed the support and went back to the team after they started being successful and winning games. It keeps me wondering. As an average fan, when WE feel great when team wins and feel terribly low when the team loses, what would be going through the minds of the likes of Sachin , Sourav and Rahul when India loses. Will they be happy at the amount of money that they have got through the contracts and at the restaurants that they have built? I doubt it. I seriously doubt it. At least for the time that we, the Fans, are in agony, the players also be in a similar kind of agony. To pick them out for harsh treatments like stoning their houses, burning their effigies and other senseless things is putting them under more agony.

True, they are earning hell a lot of money compared to the average fan. But then, they also play under enormous pressure. Imagine a situation when we have to do our job knowing that a failure would not only result in mental agony but possible physical agony as well. That is what the Indian team is going through . Spare a thought for those fellows. We danced in the stands and in our houses when Sachin gave us those wonderful moments. We rejoiced when Rahul won those test matches for India. We were jumping in joy when Saurav danced down the wicket to hoist the ball out of the ground for those huge sixes. We were happy when India made it to the finals of the 2003 World Cup and when India won those amazing tests at Kolkata, Adelaide, Headingley, Multan and Pindi. We were happy then and enjoyed with TEAM India. Now the team is in agony, why don't we give them back something, not by means of sponsorships for their wonderful performance, but by means of support in times of agony. We can do it or Can we?

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