Birth of an interesting era of cricket

The year 2008 has seen lots of lows in markets, fall of the BUSH kingdom, attack of terrorists on the posh hotels in MUMBAI and also this year can be considered as one of the most significant years in the history of world cricket. I say this because of the turn of events around the world in the cricket field. If we see the history of test cricket or one day cricket there will be only one team at its pick in a particular era. During the Bradman era Aussies were at the top and then the seventies belonged to the West indies and then after the mid eighties the Aussies captured the thrown and kept it for more than two decades.In his period of twenty years are so there has been many contenders for their thrown but no one was able to de-thrown them of their thrown. The Aussies were way ahead of the rest of the field and the rest of the world vied for the contender's spot only. Also during this period no team was able to match the consistency of the Aussies and were terrified or may be amazed at the way the Aussies played their cricket.

But 2008 has seen a change in proceedings ,teams like South Africa ,India and Sri lanka were not competing for the second spot but for the first sport with the Aussies, giving the true meaning for the word contenders. Australia were dethroned from their first spot by the Africans and India went a step ahead by defeating the Aussies 2-0 in the test series.The Aussies are no more invincible and are not seen fearful by the other teams. Its really a amazing and wonderful site for cricket lovers all over the world to see teams fight it out and also to see the monotony of single team dominating a period of cricket.

It will be rally intersting to watch the next major tournaments like mini world cup, The world cup itself, to see how these contenders perform and can they de-thrown the australian Dynasty.
Only time will tell!!!!!
M.S.Prakash