Showing posts with label Selection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Selection. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

It aint that complex acutally

If there is anybody better, replace Tend, otherwise play him. He brings so much to the team. Hundred percent commitment, exuberance and tons of experience, he is not replaceable at the moment. Here we are debating on his genius, while all the world eleven teams cherish and value his presence like anything even to this date. We Indians really miss out on the respect factor. An occurrence of failure and he sees the crowd on his own home ground booing him. Well we always talk about whether he lives up to it, question once whether we live up to it.

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Importance of keeping Tendulkar in team.

He is too precious a player to be kept out of any team.

Even if he is going thru a rough patch it makes sense to keep him in team. Why? Well like I said he is too gifted a player. What do I mean by that? Well, do you remember, during a long partnership between Tendulkar and Dravid, in which Tendulkar was showing the world how easy it was to play the most formidable spinner in the world. Following his foot steps Dravid tried playing paddle sweep, and after a few tips from his senior partner, he was not just managing it but enjoying playing the shot.

Tendulkar is richest as a batsmen in terms of shots that he has. You look at Sehwag, we still often talk about him in terms of how many of ‘those all shots’ he has been able to imitate. He flashed and now it seems he is charging his batteries, and while he is doing that, you often hear him telling newsmen how he hasn’t been able to decipher where Tendulkar, gets all his energy from.

While entire team has his shoulders down, is taking a break away from performing, this veteran is looking as fresh and young as ever. Its actually only by looking at Tendulkar that you feel like thinking about the problem that the (rest of the team) team might be facing or otherwise we would all have given it to the conditions in south Africa by now.

I would like to add, like Srinath's presence helped our younger bowlers; Ganguli's presence allowed many Indian batsmen improve upon their timing and rediscover the art of hitting 'safe sixes', Tendulkar's presence plays a huge role and is a critical factor to the teams growth process.