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The string of poor performance and some remarks by the Indian coach Greg Chapel have created a furore in India. Many people are asking for the head of the coach whom they hold responsible for the Indian team’s poor show.
But think for a minute. Can the coach be solely be blamed for this shoddy display? How far is the coach responsible in the team’s performance? What can he do if he is given a unit of eleven players in which the majority is incapable of playing in alien conditions?
At this level, one cannot expect too much from a coach. I feel he should be seen as a guide and not someone who teaches players how to play in terms of technique. He can guide them and fine tune the their mistakes by bringing his experiance and toning down the inadequacies but expecting him to turn the squad upside down is too far fetched.
Most of the players in the present Indian outfit have shown how ill at ease they are when it comes to playing the rising ball. Their batting style does not suit the South African pitches and as a result they are not able to score. Add to this their inexperiance in playing on pacer friendly conditions and the worries seem to be as tall as a mountain. All this has accrued to the team’s poor performance and in the light of these defeats the people in India are gunning for the coach.
The blame needs to be put on the BCCI too which has not laid the foundation to groom players who can play in such conditions. There are very few bowler friendly pitches in India as a result the batsmen don’t have the technique to play in fast pacy conditions against a quality pace attack overseas.
The BCCI should prepare more fast and pacy tracks. This will ensure that in the time to come, more batsmen will be produced who are good at playing fast bowling instead of a handful like Tendulkar and Dravid.
Blaming the coach is not the answer to Indian cricket team’s performance. The reforms needs to be introduced at the grassroot level.
Only a tree with strong roots produces good fruits and withstands the severest of storms.
The comments I received for the last post confirmed that cricket indeed dwells in the hearts of people across this country! But unfortunately truth is bitter and the truth is that the Indian team is ill equipped to match the South Africans in their backyard. They capitulated like a pack of cards in the first game and put on a similar performance in today’s match.
Having set a total of 275, the entire team was wrapped up at 161. Electing to bat, the South African team was in all sorts of trouble with Zaheer Khan drawing first blood in the very first over with two blows. This downfall continued and at one point the Proteas were 76-6.
The display of the Indian bowlers in the last ten overs gave a clear indication of what alien conditions means to them. They sprayed the
ball both sides of the wicket and failed to bowl yorkers which gave the batsmen enough opportunity to score. The experianced Ajit Agarkar and Zaheer Khan falied to apply themselves and bowl cleverly and eventually paid a very heavy price for their follies. Even Harbhajan Singh went for plenty and it rained runs !!
team was the innings of captain Dravid who again lived to his reputation of being the best batsmen in the team with proper technique. Dhoni for a change fired today and i felt the limelight shifted from his hair, style and fashion to his shots and cricket after a long time!
Rahul Dravid in this tour will be like a beacon, a lighthouse withstanding the storm. The thing to be seen is how far is this lighthouse able to show the way to the Indian ship which seems to be in a Bermuda Triangle, devoid of hope and faith.
Watching Indians play at Durban against South Africa in the second one day cricket match, a thought kept recoccurring to me-Does the Indian cricket team play with pride?
wickets overseas in South Africa came true and they lived up to theirreputation!!No batsmen barring the experainced Dravid and Tendulkar had the technique to hang in the centre and score runs against a decent bowling line up. What hurt even more was the fact that the Indian team had played seven batsmen and still crumbled for a score of under 100..howazzat!!
of technique in younger team members to counter and the play the rising ball. Most of the wickets which fell were an outcome of some injudicious shot selection and lack of experiance. This coupled with the lack of application and feet movement made the players sitting ducks to some clinical seam and fast bowling.
Our mind is like an ocean always occupied by different thoughts and ideas. Just think about it, have you ever for an instant ever stopped thinking on a problem / issue or topic? Well, I guess not and that pretty much brings out what I mean!
�embedded� in its waters. If there are beautiful small fishes and corals so exist predators like sharks but the ocean never gives a tumultuous appearance! Isn�t it? It appears calm and from the exterior and only when one takes a plunge in it does he /she get a measure of what lies beneath! Our mind too has several ideas, memories and instances lodged in it. To unravel the depth, we need to have a similar thought process.
thoughts and ideas come to our mind. But the deal with beautiful ideas is that they are squelched. ‘Squelching’ is what happens when a water bubble bursts with a small sound. Once the water bubble squelches, the beautiful bubble is gone leaving no sign of it. Similarly, some beautiful ideas just disappear leaving no trace of it. Like an ocean one should be wary that it is among the predators and big robust fishes that the small colourful and beautiful fishes exist!
of tapping the full potential of their mind. Einstein, it is said, would ponder as to what it would be like sitting on the top of a light beam. He would ponder as to in such a situation would he be able to see his own face! For a normal person such a thinking process will be absurd or foolish. But if Einstein had not thought in this way, we would not have seen the Theory of Relativity!
Cultivating thoughts is important but more important is harvesting them! It might happen that after sowing the thoughts, you might desert them on impractical ground but the same thought when harvested might revolutionize your life and the lives of those around you. So, look for the small ingenuous idea and nurture it.
