Indian Cricket.

hi buddies,

I am profoundly unearthed by the performance of Indian cricket team, at home and abroad. I have learnt very well that it is sheer waste of time and nothing else. I just wanted to share my bit of cricketing knowledge with you all.

What is going wrong(A small( :) ) amount of input from my prolific mind):

1. Mental strength:
This was not the factor when we went for a downfall in the tri series against Australia and West Indies. But soon after media stepped in and they are definately playing the spoil sport. Yashpal Sharma, Ajay Jadeja, Sandip Patil, Navjob Singh Sidhu and Saba Karim (What Crap) are given oppurtunity to criticise the indian team and management. Infact they themselves have not scaled any great heights in their career either. But media is playing hypocrites today. They are not showing their analytical capabilities / their commitment towards unofficial national game but they are definately breaking the morale.
If you are not physically fit still you can survive a battle, but if you are not ready mentally to fight oposition then your chaces of win are pretty thin. That is what I can see right now is happening. May be it all started during that rotation policy Chappel and Dravid had adopted during better days. Every match there was a new player playing for nation and not a single player was having sure position for next match. They were eyeing a stronger team of 15 for world cup but it might have spoiled everything. Irfan Pathan is a bowler, he can not win matches by his batting but with his bowling. In the first match of ICC champions trophy, he was sent one down. Yuvi / Raina / Kaif / Dravid did not perform well in the previous tri series, target was well below modest (130+) and they needed to be there for proving their skills / gaining some confidence - but Pathan was sent and we lost 7 wickets to achieve the target. There are several such incidents have happened, but who cares.

May be from that day I can see the real down fall. What Greg wanted to prove? He wanted to finish the match in 10 overs or what? Morales get affected during such incidents.

A psychiatrist was appointed to keep the winning attitude intact, and to make winning a habit. But that has also gone wrong completely. Gavaskar pointed out that loosers need a psychiatrist and not those who are performing well. Many such factors are there and who knows when BCCI will get rid all such issues.

2. Coach:
To a certain level yes, Greg Chappel's methodology is not working our way. There was a wrong point in past that worked perfectly fine for indian cricket - and that is cricketers were always greater than coaches we had in past. They were responsible for win and so for loss. Today Chappel is credited for a handsome win and he only is the culprit for a loss as well. Sidhu's quote "You can take Donkies to a river, but you can not make them drink water" goes perfectly fine with our condition today. I do not see anything wrong in playing "Kho - Kho" for fitness or going through military training. Yoga was a good approach to enrich your concentration level and so was conditioning camp in Bangalore for fitness.
What is wrong with him is - he is not the person who can / should interfere much in selection process. Ganguly has already scored a century in Duleep Trophy starter and not Laxman but he is with team india today in SA. Let us see who is selected when team is out for Test series against SA. The drift he had created with Ganguly is one of the base reason for our downfall. Yuvraj, Harbhajan, Sehwag, Raina, Laxman are the players who emerged during era of Ganguly. He was the mentor for all of them and there is no second opinion for that among indians as well. I personally do not like cricketing skills of Ganguly either but by considering current form and performance at national level, he should have made it to ODI team declared for SA series. Bhajan, Yuvi, Sehwag and even Tendulkar stood by Ganguly initially. But who doesn't love money man? They too fell in the trap set by Chappel.
The way Ganguly was shown the doors was wrong, he deserved one more series to prove his skills - as a batsman and much importantly as a captain. I wish to see him back to indian cricket team today.

3. Advertisements & Media:
Together they are ruining the indian cricket. By paying hell lot of money definately they made our falks a bit "bindas". They are earning in crores and may be that is not allowing them to focus on their cricketing capabilities (which may help them earn pride - pride what is it??). Out of 10 advertisements we have 5 of them anchored by cricketers. Be it biscuits / tyres / clothing / liquor / oil / tooth powder / pain balms / tooth paste / bikes / fans / sport gears / banks / soft drinks / chyavanprash oh man....we have a never endling list here.
Isn't that stupid? They are cricketers and they should play cricket, only.

4. Selection Committee/BCCI:
Why Dinesh Mongia / Mohd Kaif / Ajit Agarkar / Suresh Raina are given hell lot of chances when some one like Laxman / Ganguly / Balaji / Robin Uthapa / Venu Gopal are seating outside? Even cricket control board of India is wrong somewhere. e.g. Increasing pays for Indian cricketers - was there any rebel in indian cricket team? They have earned enough, and pay by performance policy should be adopted at the earliest. And I tell you that no one can be more greedy than our cricketers. I'll bet on our win during each match - if such a policy is employed.

5. Indian Cricket Team:
We do not deserve to win over Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, Srilanka, South Africa. Because they are better than us. We should not fancy our winning chances if we are playing against them. I do not believe that those teams have any better players than what we have. But they are committed and they are consitent - and that's what matters at the end of the day. Today only three cricketers are performing average - Dravid, Munnu and Dhoni. Rest all are far below their capabilities.

I do not know whether I am correct or wrong. There can be many more points that can be brought up here. We all need to do something - I love cricket and can not stand it. Together we all should do something that can wake the team.

Please guys - do something - do a miracle - make India enter the semi's atleast in the world cup. I want them there - at any cost.

India must have got atleast 40k ppl who play cricket very well - and choosing best 11 out of them should not be a problem. But how??

I am leaving these post unconcluded - I believe in supernatural forces. Being a die hard cricket fan I just would like all of you also to comment.