Dec 18th 2006. Its truly a historic day for INDIAN cricket.
Sreesanth had been in limelight for his dance on the field, for his spell of 8/99, the aggression etc.
Chappell,Dravid,Smith,Sourav,Gavaskar,Shastri,Harsha Bhogle and Donald all admitted he is a livewire in the field. Emails had been floating around with clipings showing his dance after he hit Andre Nel for a six.
These are all the known facts in the last few days.
But something went unnoticed in the thick of actions.
Not for Ravi Shastri though. He watched Sreesanth a day before the match started and in the morning of the match day in elevator... both the occasions Sreesanth was holding the cricket ball in his hand tightly. Later he revealed that it was Greg Chappell who had asked him to get used to this kind of cricket balls - 'kookaburra'.
This guy went one step further started holding it all the time he is awake.
He told ESPNStar later that he wanted to get used to the feel and grip of the ball and so he did like that and carried the cricket ball all the time.
Rest is all history now. It had done wonders.
Whats in it for us? Simple.
It shows how we need to cling on to our dreams. Its not just having dreams alone that is enough. We need to keep thinking about it all the time, all the place.
The more closer we have it to our hearts, the more closer we get to reach success.
The more tightly and strongly we stand by it, the more easily we come out as winner.
Lets keep dreaming and hold on to it till we make it come true.
Come what may !
BIG CONGRATS TO TEAM INDIA ON THIS STUPENDOUS FEAT !!!
More details here.
Some more details here - courtesy cricinfo.
9 comments:
He was awesome and this win will be remembered for many reasons, including return of Dada :)
What amazes me Senthil is ur passion. I might not be the first person to say, u are one hellava great guy. :)
u teach ppl so many lessons, like they say, u dont know ur worth, hats off to u :)
Good one! Though I did not see the match (not seen cricket for a while), I could feel how it could have been. Well written.
Good moral - I trust it when it comes from you.
I completely agree with Ayesha...
Senthil you are just amazing, I find it hard to understand how maintain so many threads at the same time... contacts, greetings, charity, blogging.. Rajani ;-)) !!! Wish you success and joy always!
Ayesha and Sridevi thanks for your compliments. :o).
though i wanted to become a teacher down the line, i never teach anybody any lessons...actually its the other way. i get to learn so many things daily from different sources, events, places and people :).
Madhu - dont worry if u r not seeing any mathces off late... we can still be up to date with so many websites around.
we should have the passion and we will always find ways to get it going. :)
Dear Senthil,
You accept it or not, you ARE a teacher. When you learn something new and you share it with great passion, you become a teacher. And with modesty, you definitely make it. I'm NOT flattering you with compliments....you deserve this acknowledgment and appreciation. Keep up the good work.
Cheeers -Vijay
Vijay,
You being the manager for our entire Learning and Training functions would have interacted with so many teachers and trainers over years. I am really moved to get compliments like this from you.
Thanks so much !!!
Hi Senthil,
Your mails always stand out of the regular pile of mails everyday. Your write up on holding on to our dreams closely and tightly was very nice.
Best wishes,
Shabbir.
Hi Senthil,
I just ran through ur blog. To say truth i have already read in papers about sreesanth holding the ball all the while and ravi shasthri noticing it. so i thought its a routine blog. but the way u enhanced it to realising and fulfilling our dreams and to stay focussed is superb.
I like to see more articles from ur side
cheers,
Hari Dupati
I appreciate the young bowlers no-doubt .. but after a while i feel indian cricket or asian cricket totallly rusted with currency rather than anything else.
These agressiveness will be there in the start after that people will become watch dog and try to hold their seat.
Disclaimer- I am not against to cricket ( as iam one of the staunch ameture player of ) and i am happy to be normal indian to watch cricket for no-cause, good, bad or grt8.. and shout for six. .
but its like
நெஞ்சு பொருக்குதில்லைஎய .....
check out this link.. probably he is the consitent legend..
http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/australia/content/current/story/273506.html
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