Dhoni whatever but Daddy knows best

So that's that - India is out. A billion dreams have been dashed and there will be much media bashing. The usual hero to zero screams of 'inconsistency, fickle team, jadeja at no 4, dhoni doing too much advtg etc etc'. That's probably unfair and the subject of a later post.

For someone like me though (who predicted India would lose to the Windies but beat England. My prediction was England scores 147/7 so marginally off) it was a bitter pill to swallow when my Dad got it way more spot on. In the 20th over Harbhajan bowled the penultimate ball as a wide. A billion eyes (and then the 20,000 in the 'partisan' crowd at Lords) watched in horror as one of our best fielders allowed the ball to (almost) slip through his feet towards the boundary for 5 byes instead of 2. Yuvraj stood dazed as Dhoni ran back to the pavilion thinking that he'd take 153.

My Dad said "mark my words - that my friend was a costly mistake and will cost us the semi final spot". Cut to the end of the match and India lost by 3 runs!!!!!!

ps: so whats my prediction. For the last few days its been SA, Pak, SL and Windies as the semi-finalists. Two solid teams in SA and SL and two unpredictable teams in Pak and Windies. The best teams may or may not be in the semi's but certainly the teams that played the best so far look like they will make it. But then again, i havent heard what my Dad has to say ....