Team India goes down, Team Anna rises

If you think it is the razor-sharp English bowling and their hurricane batting helped them dethrone India from No.1 Test ranking, I have a different opinion. I am sure the meek surrender of Team India should be looked at in a different perspective. It was Team India’s way of declaring solidarity with Team Anna’s efforts for a strong Lokpal Bill. Through their defeat, they tell Indians that they will not win a single match until Jan Lokpal Bill is passed in the Parliament.

Hard to believe! The grapevine is that senior Cabinet ministers (Led by Sharad Pawarji) huddled inside Manmohan’s room to find a way out to arrest further degradation of Team India’s name. (Oops! There is nothing more to erode now.) It is learned that Sharad Pawar has asked Singhvi (the legal, constitutional, bombastic, diplomatic, aristocratic, methodological, phenomenal-these are some of the words often used by this leader on TV shows) parliamentary standing committee panel chief to speed up the process before the ODI series begin.

Cricket experts may find many technical flaws for the lackluster performance of Team India in England. Poor chaps! They don’t have even have an iota of idea about Team India’s patriotic credentials. How could they perform to their fullest potential when back home, thousands of their countrymen fight for a genuine cause? Take a look at Sachin’s feat. Do you think Bresnan could trap him LBW when he was at 91, closer to his 100th century? I think Sachin deliberately got himself trapped because he knows his countrymen are not in a mood to celebrate his colossal feat under the prevailing circumstances. Or did he feel his century would distract people’s attention from Jank Lokpal bill stir? Then, how could Dravid remain unaffected among the debris? Come on, he thinks the Lokayukta had already claimed one victim (a powerful victim, of course) in his home state. So, he was not as perturbed as his other countrymen.

Guys, they should thank Team Anna for one thing. Now, the nation is engrossed in Lokpal stir. Or, our countrymen wouldn’t have minded our cricketers were World champions a few months before. An entire brigade of our army could not have protected their properties or guarantee their safety when they come home after their English Waterloo.
Hope our champions would join Anna Hazare when they come back home. For them, that is the only way out!