March 23, 2007. For any other person it was a usual day but for the cricketing fans in India, it was a black day. Chasing a target of 255 runs in their final group match of the 2007 ODI World Cup against Sri Lanka, the Indian cricket team lost the match by 69 runs and crashed out of the tournament. To digest the fact that last World Cup's finalists failed to go past the group stage was tough and as passionate as the Indian fans are, the consequences were severe. Posters were set on fire and stones were pelted at the houses of cricketers. Gregg Chappell who was the then coach resigned from his post and so did the captain, Rahul Dravid. Sourav Ganguly was making a comeback to the side, there were question marks over Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh's place in the side and Sachin Tendulkar refused to take the captaincy.
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