Men in Blue - The Rock Stars

This article is specially dedicated for the Indian team who has been rocking for the past couple of years under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Dhoni has lead India in 59 One day internationals out of which 35 matches were in favour and 18 was against and 6 matches resulted in no results. His test record is far too impressive. He lead India for 5 test matches and won 4 out of them leaving 1 test drawn. Under the leadership of Dhoni, the Indian team has set a country record for most back-to-back ODI wins (9 straight wins) and has emerged as one of the most formidable teams in international cricket.

India was known to be an average one day team before the T-20 world cup on 2007. India arrived at South Africa for T-20 world cup with no expectations and so they had nothing to loose. All the senior players were rested and youngsters were given opportunity to prove themselves. Surprisingly they proved what young legs could do to change Indian cricket. The young bloods under Dhoni went on to upset many biggies of International cricket which includes Australia, South Africa, Pakistan etc. In the words of the Great Sachin Tendulkar, he rates this team as the best he has played with so far.

The major factor that differentiates today's India is their fielding. Under the fielding coach Robin Singh, they are doing a great job. Its nice to see youngsters flying around to stop runs which we only used to see with team like South Africa, Australia.

It was until the T-20 cup that India had heavily depended on the Master Sachin Tendulkar for victories. But today we have more match winners in the form of Virendra Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar etc.

Injury has been one of the major drawbacks of the Indian team, as they were always short of some senior players each time.

Even though India didn't have much to do in the Champions trophy, I would strongly say they are the number one side in the world without any hesitation. My dream team includes;

1. Virendra Sehwag
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3. Gautam Ghambir
4. Yuvraj Singh
5. Suresh Raina
6. Mahendra Singh Dhoni
7. Yusuf Pathan
8. Irfan Pathan
9. Harbhajan Singh
10. Zaheer Khan
11. Praveen Kumar

The Game of Cricket is one of the few aspects of Indian peoples life that shows the unity of the whole country. Probably the game of Cricket should be the national game in India.