Australia's fighting loss to New Zealand reminded me Winston Churchill's famous quote " NEVER NEVER EVER GIVE UP". From 9/106 they crawled to 151 and almost defended it, losing by just 1 wicket. Any team whose opponent were 40 for no loss in 2 overs chasing 151, would just leave it and let it go. But not this Australian side. hats off to them.
During the World War II, London was facing incessant bombing and V2 rocket raids from Nazi Germany. One day a bomb fell very close to Churchill's 10 Downing St residence, destroying a portion of it and nearly killing him. Words of this attack spread like wild fire. Without heeding to his trusted advisers to leave the building, Churchill went to the basement. Sitting there he made the famous address to the nation on Radio "We will fight in the air, we will fight on the land and we will fight on the sea, but we will NEVER NEVER EVER GIVE UP".
It depicted the legendary gritty character of the English. But this attitude was not seen by the English team when they gave up defending their paltry score of 123 against the Kiwis. But their descendants, the so called English convicts who landed up in the Kangaroo land thousands of miles Down Under certainly retain this character. New Zealand won the match, but the Australians my respect.
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