After the hooplah of IPL everybody said India is one of the leading contender of this year's World T20 but all beaten to the dust. India even unable to qualify for semis. So what happened to our poster boys. Some are saying it's over cricket, some are saying its the radial tyre like tummy of some of our celebrated cricketers is the reason, or its the pubbing & some times bawal & tamashas at the pub taken the focus out of cricketers, or is it the memories of lady loves back home in India kept the focus out of short balls & our big boys failed at the big stage. Yes, our public & media are right to ask these questions because we only shower accolades to them when they excel in cricketing frontier.
So where was the ghost? It was the same old SHORT BALL. Gavaskar asks Indian team to go back to NCA. Yes he is correct because when the students does mistakes continuously they have to take special coaching. But I thought in Indian team players should be masters not students & thats why they got the cap to play for the country. Also I fail to understand that these bunch of player's have performed well before in Aussie & Kiwi wickets which are supposed to be more bouncy than Windies wicket. Now suddenly why they are unable to play short balls. This limitation had been earlier seen in previous edition of world cup too. So why they were not better prepared this time. As per me it is fat salary they earning every year & the additional IPL cheques has created mockery of the prestige & pride for playing in Team India. Its lack of application without doubt & players doesn't care till they getting those fat salaries. If you ask any cricketer what are your limitations he can easily gauge it after years of playing cricket. So why they didn't prepare themselves for short ball before Wortld T20. Only one thing can improve Indian cricket is the performance based salary & qualitative analysis should be done after each tournament. We have enough pool of talent in our country atleast to play T20 or onedayers so selecters should no be shy to drop any player who has underperformed, whosoever it may be.
Lastly Indian bowling is always been a problem. How come a world class team can keep persuing bowlers like Nehra for so long who doesn't have anything even to scare a crow through left alone the quality of balls. Other than Harbhajan India lacks genuine bowler whom team can bank upon at the time of crisis. Even Zaheer disappoints in most of the big games. It's high time we start looking at options of good fast bowlers & groom them properly. As per me Ishant Sharma can be groomed. He is a good test bowler. He needs some different kind of balls in his armoury to excel in Onedayers & T20. He is young & talented bowler who can be groomed for future. Even Irfan Pathan should be given confidence because he can be asset to the team as he bats well. For long time we are looking for an all rounder after Kapil's retirement. Pathan can be the solution, if he gets good backing & confidence from the BCCI but it seems this selection committee doesn't have much faith on him.
Lets hope misery of Indian team regularly failing at big tournaments ends soon with better application from the players & proper selection of the team.
It has been almost a year
10 years ago
3 comments:
Do all the players get fat paychecks? Surely Ranvidra Jadeja doesn't. I thought payment is based on class of players.
I think the players were physically and mentally unprepared for the competition. Physically might be doubted because foreign IPL players did play well in WC but I think the mental unrest took its toll
Yes all of them get fat paychecks as per their experience. I mean what Ravindra Jadeja earns is lot more than what he is supposed to & compared to the players of his grade gets in other countries.
Yes, u r right its all mentally.
Defintely we should perform better as per the quality of players we have in our country.
Well said! First point of action would be to change the selection committee. Individually, Irfan Pathan has always been considered as a bowler by the Indian selectors which is absolutely wrong on his part instead he should be consider as a genuine all rounder in the days to come..In one of the test matches versus Pakistan, he took only 3 wickets in both the innings but scored 45 not out & 60 not out in both the innings and in the next test match, he was dropped..the unjustified reason was he was able to pick up only 3 wickets but people forgot his scores with the bat instead he should have been given loads of confidence mentally.
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