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Indian cricket came to the forefront in 1983 when India, underdogs back then, played like champions and lifted the coveted world cup. Since then, Indian fans got a lot to cheer for, as Indian team performed well and was the only game in which India had any international standing.

Even today, other than an exception every now and then, cricket is the only sport in which India has produced players of international repute. But with Sachin admitting that he feels too old to play in one day games, Saurav not being able to show the form he was once famous for, Dravid seemingly bent under the weight of captaincy, and there being no youngster who has shown himself capable of replacing even one of the three great players, it seems it is curtains for Indian Cricket.

Like most sports, the way cricket is played has changed over the years and across the world. And like most sports, India finds itself being left behind while the others keep improving and getting better.

If that was not enough, match fixing allegations, have rocked the cricketing circles in India. And when a match has ended closely, the fan is left in a doubt as to what he just saw was an excellent display of sportsmanship or an excellent display of stage management on the cricket field.

And even if that was not enough then the recent creation of ICL has further questioned the intentions of the people who are running the game in India. Are they in it for the love of the game or for the love of money? Needless to say that money is important for developing a game but when money begins to dominate the game, the game has no future.

I will not predict that this is the end, or even the beginning of the end, but I can’t help but wonder : is this the end of an era?

Once again, I am guilty of ignoring this blog for more than a month. I have no excuse this time, and so will plead guilty, and seek a lenient punishment from all the readers.

Also, I will like to say that I will try my best not to let this happen in the future, though I can not make any promises yet. The story that I was putting on here will be continued shortly. There is one bad news in that respect though. I seem to have lost the final copy of the story. While I was cleaning out some unnecessary files from my hard disk, it seems, I deleted the wrong file, and now I only have half the story. You can well imagine my disappointment at that, but life goes on, and I will try and complete it again. It might be for the better.

I will leave you with that for now. Come back soon for more!

For all those of you who come here looking for me to continue the story, I offer my sincerest apologies.

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I really don’t know if this blog has a lot many readers, but as I had said in my very first post I will be taking a break from the story I am narrating, every now and then, to blog about life and other such things.

Right now I am busy with another project of mine which I hope takes shape soon, and I hope to finish the project by its due date which is 15th of July , 2007. It won’t be easy. but then, as they say,  nothing is ever easy until you have done it.

One thing that is really bothering me about this blog is the time it takes for it load. And I really can not figure out why it takes so long to load. So, if you can tell me what I need to change to make it load faster, it will be a great help to me.

Till next time.

I had begun to take a very active interest in the life around me. I could conveniently sit anywhere and listen to people talk, see them going about their daily business, and no one could hide anything from me, because they were not aware of my existence. I traveled a lot. In the early days I used to get back home but then I got used to staying away from home for longer periods. As long as I remained about the house I was reminded of my past life but once away I used to get so engrossed I life that sometimes I forgot that I had been alive once. It seemed to me that I had always been like this.

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