From an Indian cricket team fan to other fans of the Men In Blue

From an Indian cricket team fan to other fans of the Men In Blue:

Hello Everyone,

This is a letter from one Indian fan to all other fans of the team. Team India lost their semi final match against Australia on Thursday at the SCG by 95 runs. The team played superbly in the world cup winning all their first seven matches and yesterday was not our day and we lost against Australia. And what are we doing? Breaking our TV sets, burning effigies of players, throwing stones, abusing cricketers on social networking sites, making fun of them and to add to that we have also included their family members into that, abusing their close ones and also some were even saying to pelt stones at Anushka Sharma’s home. I mean what wrong has she done? Can’t she watch a match at the SCG? We people need to change our mindset.

Team India lost the match but they fought like warriors throughout the tournament, but when they lost everyone loses their mind despite recognizing the fact that they won their first seven matches with an ease. I don’t think that they are losers; it’s we the fans who are loser. If you cannot support the men in blue during their worst, then you have no right to support them when they are at their best.

People were abusing Virat Kohli on social networking sites and making fun of his personal life. I mean what is this? We are the same people who rejoice when Virat scores a century or wins matches for India. At times, we even called him equivalent to Sachin. But now, when someone is not at their best, we forget what he has done for our country and all we do is abusing and pelting stones. We cannot expect Virat to fire in all the matches, after all he is also a human being and we should also behave like one.

Coming to this man Mahendra Singh Dhoni, people criticized him for playing too slow during power-plays and in middle over’s and then pressure got the better of him and India lost. We should not forget that this man has won many matches for us and finished many matches for us in style. There is no better finisher and skipper than Dhoni in the world right now. This man has not seen his new born daughter and he did not fly home when there was break between tri-series and world cup, when asked why he didn’t go, he just said that “I am on national duty, everything else can wait”. Look at the level commitment and passion of this guy towards his nation and the sport. We people forget so many better qualities someone has; what he has done for us and only remember the things in which they were not up to the mark and then criticize them, pelt stones at their homes.

There are some positives we can take up from this world cup, a performance of our bowlers’ is a big positive and a promoting sign for Indian cricket. Umesh Yadav took 18 wickets and Mohammed Shami took 17 wickets. Not often, we see that two of our bowlers are in top five wicket taking bowlers list in a world cup and that to fast bowlers. One more thing that can make us happy is that our captain cool is not retiring. If he would have retired, then this would have hurt us even more than their world cup loss.

Dear MSD and team, for us “champs you were, champs you are and champs you will be”.