Recent sporting events had a lot of India flavor.
First of all, the sound thrashing that India meted out to the Australian cricket team during the 2nd test match at Mohali. In the first innings, it was Amit Mishra's orthodox leg breaks and googlies that did them in - after a solid batting performance from Tendulkar, Ganguly (a hundred in his farewell series - what an achiever!) and Captain M S Dhoni.
In the second innings, brilliant bursts of swing bowling by Ishant Sharma and Zaheer Khan broke the backs of the Australians. In between, Sehwag, Gambhir and Dhoni tore their unidimensional bowling attack to shreds. A defeat by 320 runs! I do not recollect when was the last time that Australia had lost a test match so heavily.
At Bonn, West Germany, Vishwanathan Anand was drubbing Russian Grandmaster Kramnik at the World Chess Championships - winning twice by playing with the black pieces. His 4.5 to 1.5 point lead in the 12 match series looks unassailable. Kramnik seems all at sea against Anand's variations and rapid moves.
In a Nationwide Tour golf event in the USA, Arjun Atwal broke the jinx of never having won in the USA by winning in a playoff and almost assuring himself a PGA tour card that he had lost in 2007. It will be good to see him competing in the PGA Tour along side his friend Daniel Chopra (who now plays under the Swedish flag). Earlier, Jeev Milkha Singh had finished a creditable 4th at the Indian Open Golf tournament at Delhi.
All in all, some thing for every Indian sports lover to be proud of.
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