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The year 2006 saw Team India dishing out its worst performance since
2000 where the ODIs were concerned. More than the defeats -- India
have won only 13 of the 30 ODIs played this year -- it's the way they
lost them that made the boys in blue look real ugly guys. Prior to
the great Wanderers comeback, out of ten Test matches, India had won
two, lost two and drawn the rest.
The reasons were not far to seek. Frequent collapses in batting,
the 'processes', as the Great Greg would love to call the 'graduation'
of some so-called promising guys like Kaif, Raina and Dhoni, and
bitter politics that have ranked the BCCI since ages, all this led
to the great Indian debacle; a natural corollary of which was only
waiting to happen.
The crowds went berserk. The collective conscience of an entire
cricket-crazy nation was crying out for 'Help Team India'. The Parliament
and Speaker Somnath Chatterjee fell out with Chapell until of course
the historical first Test in South Africa in the dying moments of
2006.
Though Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly, coming out with flying
colours, and find of the season Sreesanth may have given us reasons
to smile, for the cricket lovers, the year would be best remembered
as the worst of times for both the players and the spectators whose
anger knew no bounds and made our 'real-life villains' (read Kaif)
and his ilk to look for security cover and applying for a safe passage
from their hideouts (UP).
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