India's Debaclous Start
The first match of India's world cup campaign. It seemed as if Indians did not have had a good nights sleep and they went to the pitch to have a nap . How come Bangladeshi minnows play so beautifully in the same pitch which Indians made it look so disastrous, the pitch could not deteriorate so drastically . They weren't even trying to rotate strike but to play a test match innings.
I always used to think that Indian team likes to create crisis situations which actually makes them look good on field than they really are and so win accolades. They never try to go easy on situations that could have been dominating but give equal opportunity to the other side . This is
similar to what happened on the first match between India and Bangladesh, in which Bangladesh easily defeated India.
And then media plays a much vital role while analyzing the situation. The tell what the people wish to hear. So there were media people appreciating Saurav's efforts. How does one expect player like Ganguly to play an anchorage role when he was expected to be set after playing from the first ball. He played just in the same manner in the beginning to the end as if from the beginning he knew that the team will fall. Now people will say that he made so much runs, but actually I think statistics do not tell the entire story, if that was the case then statisticians would have been the most payed professionals.
Game play is a more important factor. Your body language speaks more then what one tries to show. Sports is more of a psychological affair , take this case if a player like Ganguly is not able to play then how would lower order batsman would play. How is it that strike rate of other players more then Ganguly only thing that Ganguly was for a longer time and he was supposed to understand the ball more easily then the new batsman.
They must learn lessons from Kiwis how to win after loosing 4 wickets by just rotating the strike and loosing the pressure. But it seemed that Ganguly was trying to build a crisis situation himself so that his innings look heroic.
Well Sehwag is to be blamed too but he is a gone case, how is he in th team god knows. One cannot bame uttapa as he is a new comer. Sachin and dravid are to be blamed for not playing good and getting out so cheaply but there is also an interesting part to see. In both partnership Ganguly played or one can say did not try to hit more balls then the other players. Now how can player like Tendulkar and Dravid with a temperament of playing a fast game stand and have a nap along side Ganguly. Sitting before the TV ad seeing Ganguly not attempting to play was irritating to me then so to the players standing in non-striker end. Man you must rotate strike to loose pressure but they were trying to build more and more pressure.
All those reporters who said that the lower order collapsed, one must keep in mind that Dhoni came at 45 th over and from their their run-rate was about six till the end, so their getting out did not really effected much. What effected is top order relenting to rotate strike and take runs.
And then substandard balling in which pacers forgot how to ball pace and spinners were sending ball at a faster pace and no body was balling to the wickets but outside off stump to give them opportunities to hit. It was a total indisciplined performance and would like to see what is left for India in the future.
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Name dies hard
Whats there in name, well this I suppose is the most spoken out one liner in todays world. But sometimes questions arise on the genunity of the phrase.
Sometimes so happens that name really takes a long time to die. Now take the case of Ronaldo and his game in world cup 2006. From the very starting of the world cup Ronaldo has been on his poorest of
forms, but coach could not dare to remove him because of his name.
Though some will say that he scored some goals in the world cup but statistics are not my best friends. He has grown fat and lazy, does not run in the ground or even try a tackle, he just converts the moves made by other players into goals but actually he has missed more goals than he has scored, whenever he goes with the ball he topples as if his lower part was not able to support his upper part.
Because of his presence talented players like Robiniho has not got any chance to play for two world cups and cost Brasil the world cup this time. There are times when names have to go down in history . Last time the Brasilian coach dumped Romareo even when the President wanted him in and as a result Brasil won.
Same is the case with Saurav Ganguly, but only thing different in this case was that most Indians were not used to such type of actions , these sarkari babus have got their brains corrupted, man this is sports not sarkari job.
But then also people come out with statistics to support Ganguly but again I say this is sports played by sportsperson and not controlled by chartered accountants. This was time for him to go but only because of our attitude he has now bacome the face to pity for Indians and ofcouse we being emotional helps.
FootBall- Can we Backpass
The question arises is whether we can backpass in the game of foolball.
Football is a beautiful game and has to be played beautifully. I have seen Indian international side playing this game and it tends me to ask a question again and again- Can we backpass the ball.
This happens so that in the group discussion conducted by Accenture company in the placement fair we were asked about the deplorable state of Indian football and why a country of 1 billion cannot produce a good football team.
There were at that time arguments that India does not have the infrastructure or government is not interested and so on and so forth and ofcourse no one actually knows the reason.
I can even state that the condition of cricket is not so good in India. It is so that only 12 nations play that is why we have some reputation or else I do not know. Tell me one thing , if one wants to play or learn cricket in India, where will one go. Can everyone who is reading this blog is comfortable with this question. I think not..
Take hockey, our national game but how many have actually touched a hockey stick ever. I fear not many let alone play.
Times have changed, schools of learning are must because even Dhyanchands of today cannot stand the high level of prepaidness of foreign teams. These foreign teams learn from History, develop a style and work on it. But India is a special case where one sees that historical achievments in games like Football and hockey are just forgotten. What are we doing, again and again reach to the start, hear the same old stories of loosing in the last minutes of not giving any fightback.
Now comming to Football and the back passes. When I see World Cup Football or the European Club matches one sees the beauty of passes. Even when they are few yards away from goal they do not hurry to take the goal and to my they even backpass the ball to their goalie from this stage. They think, they play with strategy, they lay in style. They wait until they make a good chance.
But what do Indian footballers do. They run as if somewhere train is leaving the station. They show a good deal of individualistic play and at the end hand the ball to the defenders of the other teams. And ofcourse who thinks about backpass, well that is a waste of time just go in and " agar bhagya ne saath diya" then they will score a goal or else will give reasons of government not providing enough support.
And what do these people do after retiring from the football. They actually join government service or one can say they play football to join government service or government college and leave a happy life there after, then question arises who will teach the new generation the skills and styles of football and to back pass as always rushing in as cavelry chage will not give results when the other team is teachnically sound. You must learn to fallback and make chances so as to show some good result and for this one must have the attitude to give backpass.
And ofcourse politics does not play football it is our attitude towards life that plays with us..ha ha ha...
similar to what happened on the first match between India and Bangladesh, in which Bangladesh easily defeated India.
