Enjoy Team India

By John Cheeran
Enjoy. Team India has stolen MTV’s theme.
Virender Sehwag, after leading India to a thumping Test win at Ahmedabad, said the upswing in team’s fortunes has been due to the fact that in the new regime – read Greg Chappell and Rahul Dravid – players are having fun.
“We are enjoying our cricket and that has translated into positive results. There is no other secret and all of us are wanting to win,” said Sehwag.
Sehwag gave credit to the team management for the splendid wins the side has carved out in recent times.
It is significant that he thanked coach Chappell in public to let the world know that no one is missing Ganguly in the dressing room. May be, who knows, Chappell is not the dictator he has been made out to be in certain section of the media.
I’m sure each time India lost wickets in the Ahmedabad Test, especially in the initial phase of Indian first innings, Chappell baiters would have been licking their lips in anticipation of an Indian rout by the Sri Lankans.
For Ganguly’s shameless backers, a defeat and an Indian batting collapse would have given enough fuel to run the campaign for Bengali reservation in Team India.
To their credit, these bunch of players have showed the resilience to bounce back time and again.
But then the important point is this.
Victories spur the nation’s expectations and enormous amount of hard work is required to maintain the winning streak. Tougher challenges are ahead and they will keep coming.
Enjoy Team India.