What makes a champion different from a winner is consistency and when same needed to be applied to the game of cricket, it becomes all and more important considering that this game has produced many one day or rather one series wonder.
Indians started their tour of West Indies in an astonishing manner by comprehensive victory over Jamaica. The performances of batsmen in this match proved the fact that Indian batsmen have learned the game of consistency with dhoni, raina and most importantly kaif found themselves amongst the runs…Though sehwag once again failed to capitalize on a good start, his knock of 33 runs looked solid. However raina in particular took the glory by being the only batsmen in the line up to touch the milestone of half century.
Well, Indians have now experienced an ideal launch pad for the first ODI to be played today. Close scrutinizing of the practice match suggests that Indians had a bit easy time in the field as far as the batting was concerned with no real fast bowler or any senior member from the national team was their to really scare them and that is where Indians need to be a little cautious since the ODi would have the likes of Lara, Sarwan etc who hold a potential to take the game away from the Indians..
Whether India would be able to maintain the winning momentum or not, only time can tell, however seeing the towering sixes by Dhoni and impressive bowling performance by Munaf Patel… It looks like Indians are ready for the task and would make their presence felt by winning the battle before the war starts in the same island in a few months from now…
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