"When is the Cricket World Cup going to be won by India?"As Friday night turned into Saturday morning in India, the hopes of more than a billion cricket fans to see their team lift the World Cup for the second time almost came to an end with Sri Lanka winning the Group B match at Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain by 69 runs to all but end the journey of the Men in Blue in the tournament.
Chasing a fairly competitive target of 255 in 50 overs after skipper Rahul Dravid chose to field first, the Indian team were bowled out for only 185 runs in 43.3 overs for their worst performance in the World cup since the 1979 tournament.
In the 1979 World Cup they had failed to win even one match.
And now their only chance of making it to the round of Super 8 is if (and that is a big if) Bermuda beat Bangladesh by a massive margin in the final group match on Sunday, which going by the spate of upsets in the tournament does not look impossible.
The big difference between the two teams was the attitude of the batsmen when the going was tough in the middle.
While the Lankan top order also failed but their middle and lower order rose to the occasion and put on 254/6 on the board in their allotted quota of 50 overs which in the end proved to be too much for the famed Indian batting line-up that had three batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs.
Chasing a fairly competitive target of 255 in 50 overs after skipper Rahul Dravid chose to field first, the Indian team were bowled out for only 185 runs in 43.3 overs for their worst performance in the World cup since the 1979 tournament.
In the 1979 World Cup they had failed to win even one match.
And now their only chance of making it to the round of Super 8 is if (and that is a big if) Bermuda beat Bangladesh by a massive margin in the final group match on Sunday, which going by the spate of upsets in the tournament does not look impossible.
The big difference between the two teams was the attitude of the batsmen when the going was tough in the middle.
While the Lankan top order also failed but their middle and lower order rose to the occasion and put on 254/6 on the board in their allotted quota of 50 overs which in the end proved to be too much for the famed Indian batting line-up that had three batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs.
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