Chak De India

The last few days have been quite eventful for the Indian Sports. First of all we managed to win the Nehru Gold Cup beating a much highly ranked Syria 1-0 in the final after 12 unsuccessful attempt.....

We are going great guns in the ongoing Hockey Asia Cup and have already reached the semifinal beating Asian champion S. Korea on the way and thrashing SriLanka 20-0 and Thailand 16-0.

And then we have the the ongoing Natwest Series in England......
Am not sure how many of you still continue to watch cricket after the World Cup debacle, but a majority still does......
And the luckier ones must have witnessed the historical cricket match on 5th Sept' 07 @ the historical "The Oval". It was one of the finest show of the Indian famed batting line up and a awesome show of nerve by the gen next.

The solid display of batting was commenced by the greatest opening pair of all time "Sachin" & "Saurav" who now have a record 20 century opening partnership to their name playing in vintage form and was brought to a thrilling climax by Dhoni & Utthappa. And hats off to the temperament shown by Utthappa, specially with the mammoth target, wickets falling all around him and some tight bowling and fielding by the English side, batting at a very unfamiliar position and batting for the first time in this entire series, this guy did something which we are not so famous for. He didn't loose his cool and helped us win a historic match & come back into the series from behind.....

Yuvraj looked like a mighty relieved guy with the win after the kind of pounding he had suffered earlier.... But it really was a moment to saviour, one of the finest run chase we have ever seen.....
The other two I remember are the last Natwest series final ( Kaif & Yuvraj ) and the Asia Cup final in 1998 at Dhaka against Pakistan ( Kanitkar's match of the lifetime ).

Anyway, lets hope that they will carry this momentum into the final match of this series and come out Champions......
Even if they don't , I at least expect them to give a tough fight now to the English side and then we have the upcoming Twenty20 World cup with a fresh looking team......

But, for now its "CHAK DE INDIA" !!!!!