If I was Collingwood, I would want to shoot down the Indian media, come on guys give some credit to the England Team, they played good cricket and exposed the ’short’ comings of the Indian Cricket Team.

I am happy that this reality check came in for the Indian Team in T20 and not in a important ODI or Test Series.

Dhoni was riding on the team built by Ganguly and Dravid over the years. He was given the best Indian team in a platter (the same as Australian Team – given by Steve Waugh to Ponting). I am speaking only about ODI and Test Matches. This will continue for even some more years because the cricketing greats of India (Sachin, Dravid and Laxman) have some years of cricket left in them.

The T20 format was different. Initially it was seen as mad hitting format and slowly after few tournaments the madness has paved way for some good strategic batting and bowling. I would say IPL 2.0 has changed the way T20 dramatically because it had showed the success of more experienced cricketers like Kallis, Gilchrist, Hayden and Dravid. The pitches were slow and bumpy which led to the failures of some of the young Indian cricketers (who according to me or technically flawed)

Let’s analyse the T20 world cup… The practice matches and the group stages were cake walks except NZ match ( blame it on ICC, they wanted good TRPs and they will get only from Indian Matches). Cometh the super 8s and the technical flaws of Indian Team were exposed.

1. Let’s face it. The Indian batsmen have become extremely bad players of short balls. It’s England and it’s winter, you will have balls bouncing and seaming. I dunno how they thought they can hit cross batted slogs to counter short balls. Don’t they know there are shots like pull, hook and upper cuts (mastered by Sachin in recent times) ? Where were the practice matches? Both Windies and English bowlers used the conditions to the fullest extent…

2. If this is the team which is going to replace the current test greats, you would see Indian team murdered in Lords, Oval, Perth, Durban etc.,

3. Tactical mistakes – leaving out Irfan who was swinging the ball better than others and Ojha, who was successful in taking wickets. But it’s the decision of the captain to choose his best team.

4. Merry go around shopping trip of Indian Team ahead of the crucial match. I would have seen Sachin and Dravid practicing the short pitched balls in the nets if they had perished in the previous match. We have heard stories about Sachin who practiced continuous 5 hrs to tackle Giles’ negative line bowling. They are greats because they diligently practiced.

4. The pathetic piece of trash from Indian media trying to poke Dhoni in every press conference. If he doesn’t want anybody in Team, it’s his decision. Give him the team he wants and if you think you are better of in that, why can’t you guys take the captaincy of Indian Team ? Let Boria Majumdar and that piece of trash from Headlines Today take up the captaincy and win it for India. Already these people want Dhoni out of captaincy. Who gave you the right to arrive at that decision first? They did it to Sachin when he was a captain now they are doing it for Dhoni.

What’s the way ahead?

As I said, I am happy that this reality check happened in the right time and it was a T20 tournament. It’s right time to get back to the basics of cricket. Start playing some good cricket rather cross bat hits, go back to proper net practices and make the most of the time given to you before the tough series of West Indies ( not because of the team but because of the conditions).

Dhoni will be our captain and we will back the team in whatever situation they are in. This is the most important time that we should back them up. They are world beaters and they have the potential to become No.1… Just a small short coming and they will come overcome it…after all Cricket is not a sport for us it’s a way of living.

PS: To all those useless Indian media ” Shut up or we would shut you up”

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I am agnostic. I am skeptic whether God exists or not. I don’t believe in religion. But if there is God of Cricket,it would be an mirror image of a man by the name Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. An epitome of genius and synonym for humility, he created a new breed of cricket lovers in this country. 

I don’t know anybody else in this country, who is loved so much invariable of age,gender, religion, caste, creed, language  or even status. Every time he walks in to the pitch, one billion Indians stand up to cheer, pray, shout for him to hit a century. He carries the hope of all those Indians, who wants India to win every time in a cricket match. He brings tears to that 1 billion people whenever a index finger of the umpire is risen against him. He has been the inspiration of all those middle class Indians, who want to become successful in sports which all these years has been the camp of rich Indians. He has been the true icon of Indian young brigade because of his sheer presence and humility with which he has encountered all his successes and failures…

He is one of those people who come only once in a life time…

And these are some of the articles about my God

http://specials.indiatoday.com/specials/popup/Greatindians/Tendulkar49.htm

http://www.time.com/time/asia/2006/heroes/ae_tendulkar.html

The day he quits cricket, i will quit watching cricket… What is there when the God doesn’t play????

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If you want to know and demonstrate how to lose a Test cricket in 3 days, ask the Indian Cricket Team, they just finished a demo in ahemadabad and they are heading to Kanpur for the next.
Ideally we should not blame the Indian cricket team for the fiasco, but we should give the credit to the Proteas, because they outplayed us in all the departments.

Few questions which lingered through my mind

1.Although we have produced good pacers and speedsters in the recent past, our strength have always been spin and why do you make a pitch which assists seam bowling and with a little grass cover on the first day of the test. Why don’t we make pitches like Feroze Shah Kotla?
Cut the crap of making pacy wickets and making fast bowlers out of it. Australia never made spinning pitches even when they had Shane Warne. South Africa never makes spinning pitches to practice. They have separate turfs and practice places to tackle spin bowling.( Hats of to them, they really played spin well, i didn’t expect AB de Villiers to score a double hundred). Can you find a seaming pitch in Sri Lanka even when they have a good seamer like Chamind Vaas. The Kandy pitch will turn from the second day and Murali will be magical. Simple universal axiom – “Play to your strengths”.
2.How do Indian batsmen think that every pitch in India will be a Chepauk. The rash shots they played on the first day were unbearable. I can accept Dravid was gone for a beauty but not others. Do we have a team, which can’t stand for a session…thats terrible? Sachin would have made the difference but what happens when he retires?
3.The seamers, why they don’t stick to the basics and bowl line and length in the sub continent rather than trying too much like they do in Australia and South Africa. How many times you will expect Kumble and Bhajji to contain, to take wickets and to terrify the batsmen.
4.And for the last thing, the useless media talking about this again and again in the TV. I hate this Times Now, because they either have cricket or page 3 as their headlines even if a bomb is thrown at them. The young Vs old brigade… look at the picture below, the future of Indian Cricket

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