Cricket !!!

Cricket!!! Is it a shame or is it our pride? As the statistics go it looks like a humiliation. Greg Chappell, the new coach of our team does he know too much to cause this. Sometimes I feel too much of knowledge can even cause a problem. The coach’s (in) famous shuffling is with one goal: to figure out what the Indian team would be without players like Sachin, Dravid and Sourav. Indications so far are that he has identified Sehwag (opener), Kaif (the anchor) and Irfan Pathan (possible all-rounder) as the three who need to contribute at a more prominent level.

Playing too much with a situation or a team which precariously rests on a knife edge in all its games (especially finals) can cause the turbulent effect to shatter the fundamental players in the Indian team. I feel that is what is happening which is a direct effect of experimenting. With a vision of future the players are shuffled not sparing the captains too, how far does it affect the present moral or motivation of the players? The team finds its record in total doldrums.

The solution would be to play with a fixed few and play at their best position to deliver the good for the team and get a few knocks under their belt, and also a series win for the team at least and then possibly hobble the combination. Be it a firm decision needs to be taken at the earliest, before we find a team which were runners up in the World Cup lying lower than number 7.