After the match in Jaipur where India pulled off an incredible chase of 359 runs with more than six overs to bowl not only meant that the current crop of players believe in their own abilities but was also an indication that Indian cricket has come of age and is growing in leaps and bounds.
India made a joke out of a merely impossible target and rode on the broad shoulders of Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli which gave India a famous victory. The very fact that the team never looked to be playing the catching up game in the tall run-chase is good enough to make anybody understand how dominant they were in the match and this confidence will hold India in good stead in the near future.
The batting seems to be in safe hands as the players coming up the ranks are performing on a daily basis so much so that the likes of Gambhir, Sehwag, Zaheer and Harbhajan just cant get into the side. And most of these players can walk into any side at the current moment, given their past record.
India might just be seeing the making of a great player in the form of Rohit Sharma who needed to play a knock of that calibre just to keep himself going and just to do justice to the kind of talent he has been blessed with. Virat Kohli as always is the man to look upto when India are chasing a huge target and more often than not he has come up with the goods. While chasing Kohli is the next best thing after the Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni in building an innings and by far the best bet.
Shikhar Dhawan seems to have hit a purple patch with the bat as runs from his bat seems to have become more of natural phenemona and it was no different the other night when he took the Australian attack to the cleaners which was followed by the Kohli onslaught.
The bating of the team is so strong that it reminds us of the great Australian team which had a match-winning player in every position starting from the top of the order till No 7. The bench strength of the team seems to be equally strong with the likes of Ajinkya Rahane, Ambati Rayadu and Manoj Tiwari who just can't get a look into the side.
Going by the current crop of players coming up the ranks like Sanju Samson, Unmukt Chand and Baba Aparajith India batting seems to be in safe hands and it will come as a real surprise if this Indian side does not dominate the world of cricket in the next ten years or so. We will just have to wait and see if that happens.
By Indian Sports News Network
