Mismanagement People

All these player who got dropped and sent back home are making a mockery of our domestic cricket infrastructure. The batsmen are tearing apart the bowling attacks and there is century galore all around. Pathan looks like the best batsmen on display in either side that play, where he was sent back to identify, rectify and revive his bowling. Sehwag made an easy century, makes me wonder what he is learning out of all this, and wonder how will these easy runs help him identify the flaws in his technique. What answers our domestic cricket infrastructure provides to the questions that a young and already tiring Munaf, an underused Agarkar, a disoriented Pathan a clueless Harbhajan pose. Our domestic cricket is being referred to as 'wilderness' by many.

They say keep 'em out of spot light for a while, it will help 'em reconnect with reality that they are players and playing well is the only way its going to be. Is that all? So much from the richest board in the world? Are these players supposed to figure the rest of the things out for themselves? Is it like they are rich enough to take care of themselves?

To its credit this trick did work in Ganguly's case. With hardly any worth mentioning performance in the domestic cricket before coming back in the national squad, his coming back and playing good cricket can safely be attributed to staying away from limelight.

Well if this trick is really being trusted how about dropping the whole management on account of its non performance. There are slow moving and dim witted people in there who should be done away with as they are capable of bringing the country's cricket to a standstill. They are too slow to keep up with the pace of world cricket. They don't have any excuse as they have all the fund they could ask for. Its a country where cricket is a religion and we are certainly not short of people who want to give it all to the game, with surely a few more such people than say South Africa, England, Australia, New Zealand.... . The people who rule the game, however, are incapable of providing support or solutions, what they do do is provide bottlenecks.

Hey here is an idea ! I think its not hard to find cricket crazy management graduates in this country, a small group of such meritorious enthusiasts can replace a major strength of current board and I'm searingly sure that the step wont be a regrettable one.

Our management has a lot to learn here.

We are very well poised in this series but our players have been through a lot.
While being buzzy despising players, we tend to forget that management has a role to play in whatever happens on the field. We must not forget that our team was not given enough time to prime itself to new conditions. It was the management that didnt perform in the first place. Had that not been the case we wouldnt loose those ODIs so badly, our performance in tests as a result would be much better. Then there has always been that issue of bowling coach that the management has not being able to decipher. U know and I know as do everybody else, that our bowlers need a coach who has bowled himself. A 10 minutes talk with Donald turned Sreesanth into batsmens' nemesis, a session with Akram in Australia finished the raw product that Pathan was, a young and already tiring Munaf, an unused to his potential Agarkar, we see it all. When we talk about our team's performance lets talk about everything that effects it. A good team can make an ordinary player look good.


A player matters less than the team he belongs to.