Worst moments of Indian Cricket...

The Indian Cricket has faced with a lot of criticism in the past few years,but there are really worst moments which do happen in Indian Cricket...This blog of worst moments encompasses in and off the field moments of Indian Cricket and also the worst moments which are never regrettable and unforgettable by the People of India...

Some of the worst moments are elaborated under:

• The First Moment which comes to my mind when blogging about the worst moments is The 1996 World Cup Semi Final against SriLanka in Kolkata,formerly called Calcutta...Indians were having the match in hands till the departure of Sachin...At that point,Indians were 90 odd for the loss of a Wicket and was collapsed to 120 for the loss of 9 wickets..This screwed up the Calcutta crowd and they started throwing stones,bottles,fired Papers which led to the abandonment of match and India exited from the World Cup with a knock out punch from the Lankans...I still remember a player named Kambli Cried over this outing...This also happens to be the first match seen by me...

• The other incident which comes across my mind was the one which happened in England in 1996...There was a feud between Sidhu and Azhar,Captain,then...Azhar won the toss and elected to bat...Sidhu padded up for one down and was waiting for his turn to play...After the openers got into the middle Azhar asks to Sidhu,"Why u are padded up???you are not playing this match" and this was irritating for Sidhu to hear...And in anger he threw up his pads and packed his clothes and flows back to India without obtaining any approval neither from the Management nor the BCCI..This was a shame for Indian Cricket...
  

• The next moment which the People of India couldn't digest even today is the test match against the Pakistanis at Chennai in 1999...Indians were chasing a target of 271 Runs and they almost made it with the help of Sachin,who scored 136 invaluable runs with a cramp on his bag...On various occasions he had Pain Killers between the overs...And because of cramp,he could not play any longer and started to call on for the shots...He was going well with the shots until the one which he mishit a Saqlain's delivery,when India needed another 15 runs and three wickets in hand... The Other players failed to capitalise the start given by him and Indians lost the match by 12 runs...This match still haunts the memories of millions,if they think of it...

• 1999 world cup in England was also the worst moment of Indian Cricket as they were packed in the second round..

• Indians have a worst record held by any team in the finals..Indians were considered to be chokers in the finals as they won only a handful of matches in Finals...

• Indians also have a record of having two individual highest score against them of the First Three..The players being Anwar and Jayasuriya,both Southpaws,who onslaught the Indian bowling attack and were easing through the bowlers...I still remember the match in which Jayasuriya scored 189,Indians were all out for a meagre 54 runs,which was a lowest score by any team batting second,then...Though Indians had their full team they were bundled out..
  

• The match scandal in 2000 shown the ugly face of Indian Cricket...Players like Azhar,Jadeja,Prabhakar were caught in this scandal..The first two mentioned were vital players for India and everyone were dumbstruck by this saga..Even many stopped watching Cricket after this episode and made their mind that Cricket revolves only around bribery...
  

• The Indians were also facing bad times during the period of 1996-99 against the Pakistanis...India use to lose almost every match against Pakistan...Not only a ordinary loss but also big ones...

• Indians went into 2003 World Cup with a lot of hopes...Won the first match against Holland with difficulty and lost a match to Australians convincingly...This loss made the Public angry towards the players and they broke the house of players and burnt their effigies on the way to their protest...This was seen by the world for the first time..It was such a barbaric incident ever to have happened...

• After the tenure of John Wright,it was Greg Chappel...This is where all the confusion began in Indian Cricket...Until the intro of Chappel,everything was going well for Indian Cricket...It was cause of Chappel,there was a difference between the players like Seniors and Juniors and he was sole responsible for terminating Ganguly's Captaincy and was the the worst coach India have ever had..He was such a non-sense to the Players...

• None can forget the spat between Ganguly and Dravid..It was a sign of the intro of Chappel...Ganguly was dropped from the side cause of Chappel and he was helped to an extent by Dravid to retain his post of Captaincy...

• The worse moment for Indian Cricket came in 2007 World Cup in West Indies with their first round exit..They lost against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and made their way back to India, where they were given a hostile reception from the Public...And this exit made every Indian ashamed and were haunted like anything before...

These were some of the moments which came across my mind and their might be many before 1996 and also more after 1996,which I might have forgotten and any worst incident which comes across my mind Iwould add it to this blog...