And the Winner takes it all?

Is winning everything in sport? Yes? So what role the remaining 10 teams played in the Cricket World cup? And if you are thinking of only Australia as the winner, what role did other 13 teams play?

Definition of Sport from WikiPedia: Sport (or sports) is all forms of usually competitive physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing entertainment to participants, and in some cases, spectators.

Though it also says: In competitive events, participants are graded or classified based on their "result" and often divided into groups of comparable performance, (e.g. gender, weight and age).

Yes, every time a sports man comes out to the field, all that is there in his mind is to give his most competitive, best shot and emerge as a champion. It makes sense; a sports man provides the best sporting skill (which is what we are watching on the TV) only when he gives his most competitive best in the sport. Only the best foot forward is the most entertaining and eventually a “winner”.

But, sometimes, a looser or the second best man/men/team wins your heart, if I am a spectator. The whole world minus the Aussies, wanted New Zealand to win the final. Why? One reason is that they wanted a change in the order. Australia had won it 4 times before this one; New Zealand had never even emerged in the final before this one.

It’s the love for the underdogs, the story of dreams, and the story of revenge. That is always more beautiful than the story of Sporting Mastery to the level of monopoly – the super power.

The story of a team who played like gladiators and laid down tactics to counter punch the superior power, to bring down the almighty power. The story of rebels uprising.

It wasn’t to be the case this time, it happened in 1983 when India won the cup defeating the almighty West Indies, or in 1992, when Pakistan did so to England. But the Gladiators from the kiwiland did win our hearts. 

They might still be under the shadows of the “All Blacks” (their Rugby team who has ruled the sport), but this time though they can hold their heads high, as the they took one major step forward. They made the Rugby obsessed country, talk about this team.