Tuesday, March 22, 2011

World cup and India

India 's showing in the world cup so far does not inspire confidence even to their die hard supporters. Their bowling, fielding and running between wickets is abysmal compared to other countries. In bowling, only Zhahirkhan looks like taking wickets. Harbhajan singh is more keen in containing batsman than in taking wickets. With such a poor bowling attack, even total above 300 cannot be defended. Given the size of the country and population, it is surprising that we are unable to develop half a dozen genuine fast bowlers while Pakistan has a good crop of fast bowlers. Even in batting, only first 4-5 batsman have come good and 6 and 7th have been a total failure. Our tail enders are not even able to last 5- 6 balls. Inspite of building good score in 40-42 overs we were short by 30-40 runs from the target. The coach and caption are responsible for guiding the players under such situations. the players should be asked tobide their time by taking singles and twos, keep the wickets in tact and go for ambitious strokes only after 47th over. Dhoni has been a failure in batting, captency and team selection.The selectors and coach should be made accountable for team's performance. BCCI should stop promoting IPL, as it kills the skills in a cricketer and lays more emphasis on money making. Instead it should put in more time, money and efforts in devloping genuine fast bowlers, wicket taking spinniners and improving fielding to world standards. Only then we can aspire to win world cup.