In all these interviews w/ ex-cricketers, 2 common themes are very prevalent: 1. Don't blame X or Y. This was a collective failure. 2. Bring up contributions and legacy performances of X or Y and crap about experience, notwithstanding the current form X or Y has shown leading upto the WC.
I'm especially pained seeing that this elite panel of cricketers still talk only about past laurels and not consider meritocracy.
RE:The striking attitude again - live on laurels!
by Trilok Singh on Mar 29, 2007 08:55 AM Permalink
Thats pretty simple to understand why all the past cricketers talk like this. In the not too distant past they too had performed in the same fashion. If you go strictly by records you will see that no past cricketer has played a back to back epic innings. They had one great innings and then stayed on in the team going through the lows only to bounce back when they knew that their positon was under threat. So it is unrealistic to expect any better statements other than these.
