In 2007 under the guidance of meticulous mahi india created sensation all around the globe by winning the 20-20 world cup.Then after few days the same men in blue continued their winning expedition by defeating Australia in an another match at there home turf thus Shutting up the blabbering ponting who had earlier commented that India’s win at the world cup was just a fluke. After this there had been no looking back for dhoni as well as for The whole team, India continued to deliver it’s magnificent performance at test as well as one day cricket but the very same format of 20 -20 cricket which the team one’s mastered Very diligently is proving out to be a tough nut to crack.Team had repeatedly shown poor performance in this format of cricket and the latest defeat at the hands of west indies should be treated as the final testimony for this,now where does the team really lag,well with big hitters like sehwag,dhoni,yuvi,pathan brothers run machines like raina ,gambhir and rohit and with a whole barrack of killer bowlers team India has got no dearth of talent.The problem with the team is there strategy ,there approach towards the game and to some extent there over confidence.here in this post I will like to dissect each and every problem of the team India one by one and will like to suggest some remedial steps for it.
1.OVERCONFIDENCE:team is still not in a position to come out of the hang over of the past.the world cup 2007 is over so simply getting stick to it will serve no purpose .One should always keep this in mind that in a fast format of cricket like 20-20 you cannot have any favorite.20-20 is something highly unpredictable Its imperative for the team that it must come out of shackles of the past and should drop the favorite tag from its mind as soon as possible, it will help the team to come up with a fresh strategy ,the very same freshness and newness that helped us win the 2007 world cup.
2.EARLY LOSS OF WICKETS: if one will carefully look upon the past few matches one factor that had always been common is the early loss of wickets, from the very beginning the strategy of the team had been to make a huge score, to achieve this the top order batsman starts making big shots from the very first bowl which eventually ends up in loosing wicket, once you loose two three early wickets pressure builds in and then the middle order batsmen become defensive which ends up in loosing a great deal of over. The right strategy for the team should be to show some degree of patient in the earlier over (that doesn’t mean that loose bowls should be spared) and instead of trying to send every bowl over the boundary they should try to set themselves in the first 4/5 over and then should go for attack.
3.M.S .DHONI:HIT MAN HAD EVOLVED INTO A PEDDLER: when dhoni started his international cricket he was known for his big hits which was often devastating for the opponents,this helped him winning millions of fan world wide.But once he became the captain the very same player who was once a hit man had become a peddler, once known for his big hits dhoni is now more into rotating strikes, though this had been helpful for the team in excelling in one day cricket where dhoni’s new avatar helps the team to stabilize in case of early fall of wickets and to win games while chasing decent targets. But this had been detrimental for the team in 20-20 format,it had been noticed that dhoni often wastes a great chunk of bowls(the last match against west indies where he made 11 out of 23 bowls is some thing which should be strictly unacceptable for a 20-20 match.)Dhoni should play the way he wants to play in 50-50 game but when it comes to a 20-20 match which has just 120 bowls to go he should in fact he must try to play as bombastic as he can. This will be judicious not only for the team but will also be an entertaining affair for his myriad fans spread all around the globe.
4.GHAMBIR NEEDS TO BE A BIT MORE FAST:when it comes to one day international cricket and test cricket gautam gambhir aka gauti is the perfect weapon in armory of Indian team ,his big innings with decent enough stike rates caters the need of the team India very well but in a fast and furious format like 20-20 his slightly more than 100 strike rate does not suit well with the aspiration of team India to win the 20-20 world cup second time in a row. His knock of 50 out of 46 against Bangladesh might would have been an applauding affair had it been a one day international match but for a 20-20 match it was a bit sluggish deal. In a 20 -20 format it does not matter whether you are hitting a 50, a 60 or a 70 .What does matter is that your strike rate .Even 35 or a 40 by gambhir with a very high strike rate would have been far better than his elegant 50, being an opener gauti needs to be a bit more fast .
5.FIELDING:with time Indian fielding has improved and India has got some very good fielders like gautam gambhir,rohit sharma and raina ,but still when compared to some of the best fielding sides like south Africa or Australia India still needs to improve. Indian fielding lacks sharpness .We have got some very good fielders but as a whole team we are still not intact in our fielding . We still miss catches,stumpings. Miss fielding is still not infrequent. Even in the last match against WI there were two silly miss fielding which cost us us 8 runs,a wonder ful run out opportunity was wasted by dhoni,had bravo been shown the pavilion things might would have turned out the other way round. Our resplendent men really need to put some extra effort on there fielding.
These are some of the fields where team India really needs to improve upon. India still has 2 more games to play in super 8 against the very same South Africa and England whom it defeated in the last world cup’s super 8 to book its berth in the semis .With the combination of right strategy, hard work and the display of good game both on and off the field India can repeat it’s magic which it one’s did in South Africa some 2 years back .
1.OVERCONFIDENCE:team is still not in a position to come out of the hang over of the past.the world cup 2007 is over so simply getting stick to it will serve no purpose .One should always keep this in mind that in a fast format of cricket like 20-20 you cannot have any favorite.20-20 is something highly unpredictable Its imperative for the team that it must come out of shackles of the past and should drop the favorite tag from its mind as soon as possible, it will help the team to come up with a fresh strategy ,the very same freshness and newness that helped us win the 2007 world cup.
2.EARLY LOSS OF WICKETS: if one will carefully look upon the past few matches one factor that had always been common is the early loss of wickets, from the very beginning the strategy of the team had been to make a huge score, to achieve this the top order batsman starts making big shots from the very first bowl which eventually ends up in loosing wicket, once you loose two three early wickets pressure builds in and then the middle order batsmen become defensive which ends up in loosing a great deal of over. The right strategy for the team should be to show some degree of patient in the earlier over (that doesn’t mean that loose bowls should be spared) and instead of trying to send every bowl over the boundary they should try to set themselves in the first 4/5 over and then should go for attack.
3.M.S .DHONI:HIT MAN HAD EVOLVED INTO A PEDDLER: when dhoni started his international cricket he was known for his big hits which was often devastating for the opponents,this helped him winning millions of fan world wide.But once he became the captain the very same player who was once a hit man had become a peddler, once known for his big hits dhoni is now more into rotating strikes, though this had been helpful for the team in excelling in one day cricket where dhoni’s new avatar helps the team to stabilize in case of early fall of wickets and to win games while chasing decent targets. But this had been detrimental for the team in 20-20 format,it had been noticed that dhoni often wastes a great chunk of bowls(the last match against west indies where he made 11 out of 23 bowls is some thing which should be strictly unacceptable for a 20-20 match.)Dhoni should play the way he wants to play in 50-50 game but when it comes to a 20-20 match which has just 120 bowls to go he should in fact he must try to play as bombastic as he can. This will be judicious not only for the team but will also be an entertaining affair for his myriad fans spread all around the globe.
4.GHAMBIR NEEDS TO BE A BIT MORE FAST:when it comes to one day international cricket and test cricket gautam gambhir aka gauti is the perfect weapon in armory of Indian team ,his big innings with decent enough stike rates caters the need of the team India very well but in a fast and furious format like 20-20 his slightly more than 100 strike rate does not suit well with the aspiration of team India to win the 20-20 world cup second time in a row. His knock of 50 out of 46 against Bangladesh might would have been an applauding affair had it been a one day international match but for a 20-20 match it was a bit sluggish deal. In a 20 -20 format it does not matter whether you are hitting a 50, a 60 or a 70 .What does matter is that your strike rate .Even 35 or a 40 by gambhir with a very high strike rate would have been far better than his elegant 50, being an opener gauti needs to be a bit more fast .
5.FIELDING:with time Indian fielding has improved and India has got some very good fielders like gautam gambhir,rohit sharma and raina ,but still when compared to some of the best fielding sides like south Africa or Australia India still needs to improve. Indian fielding lacks sharpness .We have got some very good fielders but as a whole team we are still not intact in our fielding . We still miss catches,stumpings. Miss fielding is still not infrequent. Even in the last match against WI there were two silly miss fielding which cost us us 8 runs,a wonder ful run out opportunity was wasted by dhoni,had bravo been shown the pavilion things might would have turned out the other way round. Our resplendent men really need to put some extra effort on there fielding.
These are some of the fields where team India really needs to improve upon. India still has 2 more games to play in super 8 against the very same South Africa and England whom it defeated in the last world cup’s super 8 to book its berth in the semis .With the combination of right strategy, hard work and the display of good game both on and off the field India can repeat it’s magic which it one’s did in South Africa some 2 years back .
4 comments:
actually piyush i really liked your views bt at now i am just confussed in one point as u r saying tht opener should play quiet slowly for first five over but in d next point u r saying tht dhoni should play very fast because the game is only of 120 bals ,if out of 120 bals openers should play very slowly for 30 bals then runrate will definetly decrease .so my view is tht player should be very fast from the first ball of the match as in the last world cup 2007 pathan hit two sixes in first two balls . it will build up the confidence level 4the remaning match and we will win the game and become a world champion................
thanks tushar for ur comments.I don wanna say that india shud play slow in d 1st 5 overs..rather it shud play a bit more cautiously n shud nt loose wickets..i have made d point pretty clear that loose balls shudnt b spared
well the picture says it ALL ..! what we see in the picture is players congratulating Y.Pathan for showing Cris Gayle the road to pavillion ( thanks 2 zaheer for taking the catch though), but what I speculate after seeing this picture is " The Gr8 Indian Hurdle Missing ". Having said this I would like to raise the conspiracy involved over Sehwag's issue. What is happening...Sehwag kept mum about his injury ...captian cool lossing his Top during a press conference , when asked about Sehwag and why was'nt he picked for the 1st two matches.....!!!!
weLL is this what the furure Indian Cricket Team Looks Like....!!!! Does these internal argufy effects the teams performance..???
finally the last bastion of indian supremacy has been devastated...the world champion couldnot even make to the semis
Post a Comment