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Life Lessons From the Defeat

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                                      It always hurts to see our country lose in any sport, perhaps even more when the sport is cricket and certainly the most when the occasion is as big as a World Cup semi final. The semi final defeat is indeed heart braking considering the Indian team’s skills and their supremacy all through the tournament. As a true cricket fan and being someone who is utterly dejected after India’s World Cup exit, I might obviously be tempted to pen down my thoughts about what went wrong for the team and to share my opinions according to my understanding of cricket. But for that I guess there are already enough discussions going on in which numerous factors are being debated upon with thorough details. I would rather write about something that I felt with every passing over of the match and the feeling got stronger with each step that the New Zealand team took to break a billion Indian hearts. The game of cricket I feel, and particularly that match, is a co