Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Is India powerhouse or power mouse of cricket?
Indian Cricket, especially under BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India), is seen as a powerhouse of cricket. Almost 80% of revenue earned from cricket, comes from India. This basically helps cricket to remain functional in rest of the world.
But cricket is a sport and in sport 'performance' matters along with 'sportsman spirit'. No matter how much money you can bring into the game, for the game, and to help other cricket boards run the sport, if your team is not performing, it is hard to get the respect of rest of world.
India's performance in cricket, in series played outside India, has been so disappointing that the former great of Indian cricket Sunil Gavaskar could not resist himself and commented -
Sunny also suggested improving the domestic cricket structure, especially the rules under which it is conducted. In India's domestic cricket, ranji trophy etc., a team taken a lead on first innings is declared as a winner in case of match ending up into 'no result'. This makes teams a bit lazy and make players to develop habit of not going for outright win once they have done enough to take the first innings lead. This restricts the development of first class players, especially captains and bowlers, to think about how to get the 10 wickets of opponents in the last innings of the match.
This is the exact problem the indian national team of cricket is facing at the moment. They haven't been able to close the matches and get an outright win despite creating situations to do so. In international cricket there is 'no win' for taking first innings lead.
It is about time that India show themselves as 'power lions' of cricket than 'power mouse' of cricket, as they will always remain 'powerhouse' of cricket on the basis of financial strength in cricket.
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But cricket is a sport and in sport 'performance' matters along with 'sportsman spirit'. No matter how much money you can bring into the game, for the game, and to help other cricket boards run the sport, if your team is not performing, it is hard to get the respect of rest of world.
India's performance in cricket, in series played outside India, has been so disappointing that the former great of Indian cricket Sunil Gavaskar could not resist himself and commented -
"India is a cricketing powerhouse, but over the last 2 years or so, overseas, they have only shown themselves as a powermouse" - Sunil GavaskarSunny always have had a good sense of humor, and while this quote made me giggle for a while, it also once again made me realize how important is for a team to perform well in order to gain the respect.
Sunny also suggested improving the domestic cricket structure, especially the rules under which it is conducted. In India's domestic cricket, ranji trophy etc., a team taken a lead on first innings is declared as a winner in case of match ending up into 'no result'. This makes teams a bit lazy and make players to develop habit of not going for outright win once they have done enough to take the first innings lead. This restricts the development of first class players, especially captains and bowlers, to think about how to get the 10 wickets of opponents in the last innings of the match.
This is the exact problem the indian national team of cricket is facing at the moment. They haven't been able to close the matches and get an outright win despite creating situations to do so. In international cricket there is 'no win' for taking first innings lead.
It is about time that India show themselves as 'power lions' of cricket than 'power mouse' of cricket, as they will always remain 'powerhouse' of cricket on the basis of financial strength in cricket.
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