Cricket

Watching sports has been enduring joys of my life. As a five year old kid I was so much into sports that my mother used to ridicule me for being a sport frantic and she used to give weight to her hypothesis by saying that I might have been sports star in my previous incarnation.

I don’t know where this longing came in me. In my opinion, my mother’s theory is right as they say everything a mother says is free of error. Moreover I feel proud in being called so. Some of you might argue that if this is a personal account of my life.

In that case it is to a certain degree. But I can assure you that what follows is joyous and knowledgeable journey that will make you a keen observer of sports as I proclaim to be.

Last few months have been Super sports months. There was joy, passion and despair that formed a blend of never ending life saga. With so much sporting action, I was rather confused at what to follow and what not to. Nevertheless I followed everything keenly. Among all the events London Olympics stood out for me. Olympics have the distinction of being world’s most prestigious and biggest sporting Fair.

Sportspersons from 206 countries competing in over 300 events speaks for itself. Apart from it, London Olympics were special for us Indians as our Olympics Committee under the eye of Mr. Ajay Maken (Sports Minister of India) sent the largest Indian contingent to the games ever. It consisted of 81 Sportspersons with rushing adrenaline and expectations of 120 billion Indians on their back.

That was one aspect that made the London Olympics special. While something else that made these games grand was the fact that Indian’s stood a better chance of winning more medals than earlier games. Indian contingents had few stalwarts that world knew even before games. Mary Kom, Saina Nehwal, Sushil Kumar and Vijender Singh were a few of those dauntless athletes that left their competitors awestruck. I even read somewhere that some of the foreign competitors wanted some of...