Boxing Day and the tussle for one-upmanship for one last time in 2018 is up for grabs for 2 warring teams with one hoping to create a history and the other depleted one trying to prove a point for themselves and spoil the Indian dream.
Kohli and Paine, one an Indian poster boy and the other managing a place in team with a skipper tag have been in the News for all the wrong reasons during this tour. Sledging is the way of game when it comes to Australia and all touring teams have for years tried to match them, though always failing way short against the sledging champions.
There always is a thin line difference between aggressive emotions and emotionally aggressive. Being emotionally aggressive have many times impacted the visiting teams but not Australia as they have used it as a skill to systematically demolish their opponents with deliberate aggressive emotions.
Aussies have carried that sledging tag all the while but as they say, there’s always a human within and Kangaroos have time and again proved it.
Pigeon McGrath with his McGrath foundation has been relentlessly working for breast cancer patients and cancer awareness over last few years. Steve Waugh very quietly has been associated with ‘Udayan’ in Kolkata since his playing days which works for children affected by families with leprosies.
As Boxing Day approaches, the kangaroos have come out with their larger than off the field attitude once again and the team has picked up a 7 year boy who is youngest cricketer ever to represent a country.
Archie Schiller has been a fighter since his birth. He has undergone multiple heart surgeries in his life and every time he faced it, he has come out much stronger and smiling. The boy at such a tender age has become an inspiration for many.
‘Make-A-Wish Australia’ which works for seriously-ill children and provides them an opportunity to fulfil their long cherished wishes and wants them to evade the pains and be happy learnt about Archie and helped him live his dream to stand tall amongst men at Melbourne.
Let’s welcome this new hero Archie and wish that when he grows, we see a new Shane Warne on the ground.
As an Indian fan, hope for India win but at the same time let’s go beyond hostility between the two teams and appreciate this wonderful gesture from Cricket Australia 🙇♀️ 🙇♀️
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P.S. The blog is written as an ardent cricket fan and appreciation of young fighter who is living his dream at Melbourne on a special Boxing Day. It does not comment on any events or behaviour of the two teams on the ground.
- Jayawant
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