Abhishek still stands by Team India

BIG FAN: Abhishek Bachchan feels the Men in Blue gave their best at the cricket World Cup.

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New Delhi: The whole of India may be dejected and out to vent their fury against the Men in Blue for their ignominious exit from the World Cup, but Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan still stands firmly behind Team India.

Bachchan junior also feels that the Indian players, in fact, gave it their best.

"I was very disappointed last night. But what we should understand is that it is difficult to perform under the kind of pressure they were in. They gave it their best," he said at a function in New Delhi on Saturday.

It's not only the men on the street who are angry over the lackluster show of the Indian cricket team, even BCCI officials, top politicians and former cricketer lambasted at team for their pathetic show on the world stage, where the nation's prestige was at stake.

Yet the cricket team seems to have found firm supporter in Abhishek, who also believes that it would be unfair to come down on the cricketers for their failure to graduate from the preliminary stage of the World Cup.

Abhishek said just because the players endorsed products and appeared in advertisements did not mean they were compromising with the game. "It would be unfair to come down on them for doing too many endorsements and call for replacing them," he said.

Empathising with the team, that was virtually out of the World Cup after losing to Sri Lanka, the movie star said, "I have faced failure. And I know it is difficult to go out there and perform."

Bachchan was responding to a question on whether corporate sector interest in films would lead to a decline in their quality as was the case with cricket.