After India’s humiliating loss in three days at Manchester, the team has been facing flack from all corners.
Be it from English or Indian greats, everyone has been thrashing the abysmal showing the visitors staged.
But Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, being the optimist he always is, tried to look at the positive side of things at the presentation ceremony.
On being asked about what he takes from the match, he listed two of thing.
The first one was very obvious, a good show by Varun Aaron. The second, that drew a lot of criticism from many, was that the match had finished in three days which gave them an extra two days to relax before the final showdown.
Controversies aside, there is another positive that resulted from the speedy end to the match.
Lancashire County Cricket Club, who held the fourth Test match at Old Trafford, donated the food that was pre-ordered for the fourth and fifth day of the contest to the homeless people of Manchester.
According to reports from India TV channel NDTV, the organisers made sure that sandwiches ordered in advance for the staff and volunteers for the last two days of the Test, did not go waste.
Instead, they were distributed to the homeless people of the Salford area of Manchester.
Project manager of Narrowgate Emergency Accommodation – the organization that took up the distribution work- Martin Crowhurst, said: "Monday was a wet and miserable day, so it was great to welcome in our homeless guests to a feast of sandwiches supplied by Lancashire County Cricket Club through the LCCC Foundation.
"We served them up with hot soup and were able to offer more as a takeaway service for the next day. This was especially significant as some daytime drop-in centres for the homeless are currently on summer shut downs."
To sum it up in the words of a wise man, everything that happens, happens for a good reason.
