Monday, May 3, 2010

Come back kids…

It is amazing how there are so many people in the Indian team who have done extra ordinarily ordinary in the past and have come back blazing guns. Take for example the very first over of the 2003 world cup bowled by zaheer khan( who would not forget that… in fact i think.. everybody will not forget to forget that over) and the quintessential performance/come back in england in 2007. What more his is now the spearhead of the indian bowling attack. Nehra who has been almost out of the bowling arena for 2 years has become the second best paceman for india today. Wonder how much change a break brings in a cricket player. Gauti again is another example of a great come back. A guy, who had a penchant to mock the off side balls to the hands of the slip fielders, to the world’s number 1 test player, amazing transformation ain’t it.

Now, the incident that pulled me to write about the event is the amazing innings by suresh raina in the match against South africa in icc world t20 today. Few years back he was called the guy who could not adapt to the foreign pitch conditions and an only sub-continent player. A guy who failed awefully in the west indies tour in 2007 came out to score a hundred in just 60 balls. Amazing … I am just awed by the transformation of these comeback kids…

Waiting for more … what’s in store for us… ????