When do a billion people trun critics, bowling experts, batting order analysers, field placement supervisors, pitch report scrutinizers .....all in one go? No one can answer this question better than the past and present captains of the Indian cricket team.
One can say that this is just a game and you can't win everyday and i believe every one in the crowd will admit to this but we are a nation which hasn't excelled in any other sport consistently other than cricket...at least in the recent past.
Every child born in India especially if he is a boy is gifted a bat and ball the day the he is able to grasp any object around him. He is constantly told tales of Sachin Tendulkar more than Birbal, Lord Ram or Tenali Raman. He is shown the nearby playing ground on a bright sunday morning with more people playing on the field than the cumulative grass visible there. It is definitely a good exercise ...which may take hours mind you.....to figure out who is bowling to whom and fielding for whom.
It is a factor of loads of hard work with an even higher degree of luck to make it to the cricket camp. The odds are such that it may seem easier or rather cake walk to win a lottery ticket with odds of 1:1.5 lac than to get a place in the team.
Every child born in India especially if he is a boy is gifted a bat and ball the day the he is able to grasp any object around him. He is constantly told tales of Sachin Tendulkar more than Birbal, Lord Ram or Tenali Raman. He is shown the nearby playing ground on a bright sunday morning with more people playing on the field than the cumulative grass visible there. It is definitely a good exercise ...which may take hours mind you.....to figure out who is bowling to whom and fielding for whom.
It is a factor of loads of hard work with an even higher degree of luck to make it to the cricket camp. The odds are such that it may seem easier or rather cake walk to win a lottery ticket with odds of 1:1.5 lac than to get a place in the team.
If you are one among the coveted team members....well...you better perform. You can't be popping out of news papers, television sets, internet and every bill board in sight constantly tell us to buy a certain brand of carbonated drink, shirt, fan, phone, bike, car and the works and come back to tell us that they forgot to polish themselves against short balls before the game.....this unfortunately is the most common perception among all of us.
It is also true that the Indian team has found one of the best strike combination that we have seen in a long time. There are days when the combination comes short of striking it well but it can happen any where and in any game. My faith in the team is immense and the day is not far when the same combination will be paraded in open top busses through the city after a spectacular win.
It is also true that the Indian team has found one of the best strike combination that we have seen in a long time. There are days when the combination comes short of striking it well but it can happen any where and in any game. My faith in the team is immense and the day is not far when the same combination will be paraded in open top busses through the city after a spectacular win.
1 comment:
This will never change in India as we don't view cricket as a sport but we rather treat it like a war. The point is that, while we give brick bats for losing we also treat them like kings on every victory.....
the problem is we need to take this game just as another sport BUT while i say this, we all know this might never change for India
Post a Comment