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Saturday, May 23, 2009

why do we cheer for the underdogs ?

Royal Challengers and Deccan Chargers, placed at the bottom last year, will face each other in the 2009 IPL final tomorrow. I predicted them to meet each other in the grand finale and it's exactly what has happened. But why did I predict(or wish) the bottom ranked teams of last years to reach the finals ? Why are we humans(or atleast me) like this? Whenever there is match involving an outright favourite, why do we want the weaker team to win ? What do we gain by supporting the weaker team ? Is it to feel good that we didn’t support the obvious winner but supported the less obvious one and hence did a good deed? Or is it just because we want to see an upset and hence a hot news to talk about by putting up facebook/gtalk status messages etc etc ? Do I want to discuss/gossip about how the champion was defeated and will that give me some wild pleasure ? Is it because we like change and want the underdogs to win for a change rather the same old favourite ? Or is it because we identify the weaker team with our own weaknesses and would like to see, in some part deep in our heart, our weaknesses winning over the competitor's strengths ?
What’s your reason? Why do you support the weaker player?

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

India Won Because They Refused To Lose!!!

Cricinfo : "INDIA WON BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO LOSE ".

The inaugural World Twenty20 tournament has been exhilarating viewing. And on top of that Team India emerged out as T20 champions, courtesy : super cool captaincy of mindblowing 'Mahi'ya and the exuberance of youth!

As the adrenaline is running high with India's success at T20 WC , it's time to say again Chak De India .

And 'Success is the nicest thing to see', isn't it ? :D