Monday, January 9, 2012

The Future of Indian Cricket!!!!!!! GOD Only Knows

At the start of Border-Gavaskar trophy, India was the firm favorites and all were saying they will make the hapless Aussies and win the series in Australia for the first time. After the gap of exactly 2 weeks, we lost a golden opportunity to win a series in Australia. Indians are now fighting for their survival in the series with their back right to the wall on a pacy and bouncy track of WACA.


The three seniors who are almost playing their last series in Australia will be very unhappy. They can’t attain what Kallis and Lara attained in their careers, A Series win in Australia. In that only Sachin has the decent outing in the tests whereas Dravid and Laxman were not at their best (To be mentioned Average). The way to see our test results outside India shows us in a bad and worse to yet to begin. The three senior’s retirement time is not much and since youngsters faltering to deceive has opened a new debate. The Selectors have many things to answer. Is it the right thing to point fingers on the selectors for this heavy defeats or we are missing something?

The questions are:

1.Is India Tiger at home and cat overseas?

2.Are seniors tiring and is it the right time to hang their boots?

3.Are there any good bowlers in India except Zaheer? Are there any backup seamers in place if he gets injured?

4.Are youngsters too much liking IPL rather than the test matches?

5.Youngster’s failure resulting in the Indian loss?

6.Too much of hype around an individual record rather than the team?

7.Is Dhoni is fit to captain Indian Test team? Is anyone feeling he is more of a reactive captain rather than proactive? Aggression is also lesser lot!!

8.Dhoni’s fallback approach is eating into India’s chances of winning test matches and also he is not in form in test matches.


These are the questions which must be answered by players and then by selectors. They knew their strengths and weaknesses and somehow their losing stretch is not yet over. Let us hope for the best and the future of Indian cricket is really not safe.


I must admit one thing here. India is Tiger at home and so we are seeing a difference in their performances. So by my analysis the thing is all are becoming very good at home, in their easier pitches and home advantage they are able to win. But the truth is everyone is poor travelers nowadays. So the standard of test matches is degrading day by day. IPL is one of the things which have a major role in it. Everyone is happy to play for 20 over’s and get paid heavily rather than playing a test and getting good money.


In my view, all should lessen their 20-20 tournaments and enhance their domestic structure and teach them how hard to earn as cricketer. If you can’t play well, you can’t earn. Youngsters are earning easy money and they are not feeling the bad thing about the loss of career and their place is taken for granted by some valuable innings in IPL. When this thing changes only Indian cricket can get the heads on and become a good team worldwide. I can’t say they can be world beaters as WI or Aussies, but they won’t struggle as they are doing now.

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