Used to be a hard core indian cricket fan. Followed it like a cult - put cricket/wc over studies etc. Over the years players changed..but that deja vu feeling of how Indian team buckles remains the same..i still follow the game but the intensity of involvement has gone down
Poor debacle in this wc prompted me to write down some random thoughts
A typical fan in old time would pray that %u2013 O lord, Nayan mongia should play his best today with tendulkar to get us the match..today he prays O lord, Agarkar and harbhajan should be at their best today and make partnerships with Rahul Dravid. D%uFFFD vu span 10 or more years
You would always sort of know - " ye lau bhujne wali hai" srikant would remove his helment get a few boundaries and then can be seen on his way back..today sehwags do it too %u2013 score a a tonne against minnow, heave a sigh of relief, signal the dressing room for a new bat & the viewer knows its sehwags time..you can recall already how many times a runner was called on ground & the viewer knows few deliveries later after some flutter both of them will be walking back..and more
If somebody carries a statistic, it would be good to see, in last 50 to 70 crucial matches, how many runs have been made by bottom 5 (against top 5). Many are demanding bhaji%u2019s head. But the sleepy underdog surd has cleanly hit some of the best bowlers quite unlike the specialist batsmen. One wonders if we should just start batting in reverse order & protect our demi dummy cricketing gods
The only batsman who shows application is RD; all others have greatbach, crowe, jayasurya in their minds & they come nowhere close neither in muscle nor the desire to go on. We, the fans want them to be the world class gladiators, poor blokes make wishful attempts and more often than not falter.
Team seems to play with no planning or tactic in mind. Probably they have been taught to ignore the opposition%u2019s score & have been asked to go out there and run a locomotive at the crease and from crease to pavilion. They fail to notice that the track on crease gets broken sometimes.
But the bhatinda express goes on & derails. And then they suffer the fans wrath.
There is lot to desired on how to handle the money for the sport
