England knock timid India out of the WC

That is that for India. The most glamorous team is knocked out and with a close defeat, there will be numerous points to ponder over and different people will come up with different points in the game that resulted in this 3 run defeat. Ishant Sharma's expensive spell, Jadeja's innings of the early 90s ODI mould, Dhoni's inability to get the big shots going et al. But the margin of three runs takes my head to that one particular delivery. Three extra runs were given away by India off what would have been the last ball of the England innings had it not been a wide. It was fired outside the leg stump by Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh charged in to stop an unstoppable single, only to fumble and let it go to the fine leg fence. What could have been 2 wides, was 5 wides and perhaps, when this match is seen under the microscope, it was that microscopic slip up that made the ultimate difference.