Emma is glad that India is virtually out of the World Cup.

This was required to serve as a wake-up call in a country that glorifies every victory and rips the team apart for every loss. Every time the men in blue step onto the field, miracles are expected of them; when they do deliver they are put on a pedestal and treated as gods; but god forbid they fail, they invite the ire of everybody and nobody. The Indian team isn’t even one of the top five teams of the world; it is one thing to hope that the team does well, and yet another to assume that the cup is ours to take. And if you had been following the frenzy built in the media – print and electronic – in the start up to the event, you will realize that we deluded ourselves to believing that we were good enough to win the World Cup.