As a cricket loving Indian it was really disappointing to see India Once again tamely surrenders against the beatable Aussie(proven by West Indies).From the start of the game the pressure was showing on almost all the players even Sachin was no exception.I personally feel that the following strategies would make a significant impact on the performance of the Team:- 1. Mental Toughness:-Believing in oneself and fighting spirit needs to reiterated to the entire Indian team including the team management. 2. Allocating and also actually spending money to build infrastructure at the domestic level to find young talent and harness them. 3.The monetory benefits to the player should be driven by performance and restriction on the modelling assignments.(If INDIA lose a match then the entire team will get only 50% of the match fees) 4. Tough physical excercise regime to make the players physically fit and may be some meditation for enhancing concentration and mental strength. 5. Fixing a quota of matches to be played at domestic or county level by each player to be eligible for selection. I hope our so called sensible team management comes across these suggestion and act on it. Bhuwan
There is nothing wrong with the experiments..Just dat the players are not upto it.There arent any bowlers who can bowl six deliveries at the right places.There is too much pressure on the batsmen. in such a situation it is only consequential that the batsmen fail. The focus is always on why our batting fails. What about the kind of bowling our batsmen face in the nets and then in the matches. Ask our bowlers to bowl at our own batsmen, and i can guarantee you that they will be easily getting 300 in every match.
India only six months back was considered to be a world beating side
then what has gone wrong
I think the side is afflicted by two syndromes
1. Chappell
2. Complacency
Complacency : there have not been enough youngsters introduced in the team. If an experienced player like sewag can feel that if he is not performing , then also he can retin his place in the side , he is bound to become complacent
Chapell , my god what a coach , he doesn\'t seem to have learnt anything from life
With the kinds of thing he is doing he will lose the respect of the players in the side
ATTITUDE- I have been following indian cricket for the last 25 years and i dont remember indian teams having killer instinct at any time. The team lacks belief in itself and we never play with assured confidence. This could be generally attributed to laidback attitude of indians. We tried to sort this out by having foreign coaches and psychologists. Clearly its not working.
TEAM SPIRIT- When was the last time we played as a team and won. The only two instances i remember are the 83 world cup and 85 world series tournament. Most of the indian victories after those two have been mostly brilliant individual performances. Kumble, Dravid, Sachin, Saurav , harbhajan, laxman, etc have all contributed at different times, but we never have the team spirit, which even lesser teams seem to have
STRATEGY- This is the most disappointing aspect. We have an international coach, who is supposed to have a strategy.But it would be obvious even to a blind person that we dont have any strategy at all. The strategy has to vary to different teams and team india has remarkably low flexibility or adaptability to different conditions. Look how we are losing to windi
We are out of the Champions Trophy and naturally, its time for post mortem !!! During the India-West indies match, it was sheer lack of intutiveness that brought speedsters back in the death overs!!! WI are good at it..we had Yuvraj and Raina who could spin the ball fair enough to hold the WI batsmen at bay....The moment Pathan & Agarkar were brought back, our fate was sealed, thought they captured wickets...I think Captain is to be more of a consultant, than emotionally involving in the game and losing ideas in the process.
Let me not comment on our match against Australia, as Dravid himself has said quite a few things in a media friendly language.
Always critisising the skipper is just a daily routine for us.To compete with world's bests,we should have transperency in team selection.Kumble should be included in the team always.Chappel is giving more attention towards fast bowling.he should rely on indian great spin attack,sehwag need a long break,dhoni should open with sachin,dravid in no.3,4th place for yuvraj,5th kaif/raina,6th dinesh mongia,7th pathan,8th bhajji,9th sreesanth/agarkar,10th kumble,11th patel.
indian should improve their in slug overs both during batting & bowling
dont argue on it. bangladesh cannot beat australia even you do experiment with bating order and appoin chappal as coach. basic is that bangladeshi player have not standard as australia ,in thesane way india also has not. its other thing we have sachin but no one can beat 11 player alone.
i think, if the player's having contravercy within them due to coach .then they wont be able to co-ordinate each other this thing leads failure in indian tea.
The best way forward is to ensure that players concentrate more on playing cricket than on endrosments. Parthiv, Irfan, Dhoni, Sehwag have suddenly become super heroes, when they are still having their baby steps in international cricket. Parthiv, has already lost his career and now we find Irfan, Sehwag slipping. There should be a rule preventing new players from taking up endrosments for two years since their debut.
As for performance if we can start executing the thought that we are ordinary players (no use talking about it) and not world beaters , we can easily improve in all departments of the game. Hope the coach listens..... to this too.
