Friday, 21 February 2014
Chaos in India cricket, blame game started for away losses, Duncan Fletcher criticised
Indian cricket is going through turbulent times. No matter what one does to bring it back on track, it refuses to do so. After 8-0 straight losses in England and Australia, cricket lovers were hoping for improved performances in South Africa and New Zealand, hoping that lessons would have been learnt. But it is same old story. India returned empty handed from both the tours.
India's performances have bee so dismal that it has been compared to 'mouse'.
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Duncan Fletcher - India Cricket Coach, in lnterview looks relaxed, has come under heavy criticism from former Indian cricket players |
India's performances have bee so dismal that it has been compared to 'mouse'.
And if that was bit insulting, or amusing, or nothing, depending on how you take it, former captains have jumped into the arena and have started to play 'blame game'.
MS Dhoni, who was called 'obnoxious' by Sourav Ganguly and someone who doesn't 'risk it all' by Rahul Dravid, is already injured and replaced by Virat Kohli as a captain of India for Asia Cup.
Criticism and blames for continuous losses have not been limited to MS Dhoni only. Even coach, Duncan Fletcher, has been made party of blame game. "I don't know what Duncan Fletcher is doing. The approach needs to be right, and Fletcher needs to help Dhoni. He has clearly struggled and he needs to be more involved. He needs to plan better and the selectors have to assess and get the right squad," said Ganguly.
BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) has also waken up and want to take control of situation. "We want to take stock of the situation. We want to know what is going wrong. We would like to know from them what is required to improve," as per BCCI's official statement to a leading cricket website.
While all such developments might make cricket fans in country think that finally someone is concerned about free-fall of cricket in India, experience tells us 'nothing will be done'. There will be meetings, coach and captain will be summoned, packages will be discussed, a good laughter will take place, and a press release will be made stating - "we had a serious discussion on how to improve cricket".
Sourav Ganguly, interestingly, has also blamed spinners for the India's dismal performance overseas. Both Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja have failed to meet expectations. While Ashwin is quite experienced at international level, one has to be bit lenient with Jadeja as he is very young, as a player, in test cricket. He is also a batsmen turned into useful bowler, although his batting stats aren't that impressive. He took a 5 wicket hall against South Africa at Durban where he claimed 6 South African wickets for 138 runs.
Also, it's plain incorrect to blame the current team for 10 losses in the last 12 overseas marches - that has come to be repeated too often of late. This team is responsible for just last 2 of those 10 losses. The "credit" for the remaining 8 should go to the famed line up of Tendulkar-Dravid-Laxman-Sehwag-Gambhir. This team has done far better than that over rated one. We came close to winning one match in SA and had our moments in both the tests in NZ. The batting now looks better than it ever did in the last 10 years - I woudn't have expected that the previous era batters to come close to 40 runs of a victory chasing 400. Its really the bowling cupboard that looks bare and unless we fill that gap, no tampering with the captain / coach is going to help. Como'n, with all the cricket being played, we surely can get hold of 2 decent fast bowlers and one good spinner.
Anyway, What's wrong with Duncan Fletcher? He inherited a wilting team, and transformed it into a team full of talented youngsters. It will take time for them to be world beaters. They showed promise, won a champions trophy, and unlike their predecessors of 2011, did not lose every away match, and put up a good fight.
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