The Power of “ONE”
As Australia marched into the semifinals of the World Cup cricket ’07 as the “ONE” & only team with an unbelievably unbeaten record yet again (the last time they lost a WC match was way back in 1999 vs Pakistan), it almost looked as if everyone else has resigned to the fate. Just have a look at the way the Aussie juggernaut has steamrolled the other 3 teams already in this event:· South Africa: They amassed a mammoth 377 against one of the best pace attacks in the world, eventually winning by 83 runs.· Sri Lanka: They routed the hapless islanders by 7 wickets in an utterly one-sided encounter.· Newzeland: Now this was one team which had blanked the kangaroos handsomely by a margin of 3-0 in the last series before WC ( an awesome feat by any standards indeed). And it is horrible to...