Blues Billion
It is official now. Indian cricket team is the second test playing nation, which was expected to win, is now knocked out of the WC in the first round itself.
Bermuda could not save India. All weekend 'blue billion' prayers for its victory went into drains. Rumours are on that a group of people handpicked from various parts of the country who have perfected their skills in self-molestation, last-rites performance, abuse have sought visas to visit Bermuda just to publicly (read amidst media glare) liquidate Bermuda cricket team players' effigy for their inability to make India reach Super-8. Everyone is trying to find fault with every associated persons (especially the players) and want to put their heads under guillotine. Every Tom, Dick and Harry (TD&H) has perfected his/her skill of what that or this player should have done. Being in India and my name serves the thamizh equivalent of TD&H, I too found moral right to give my expert comments. As a one who fately stumbled upon this link, you are destined to read my comments. Bear with them as you did with the Indian team's performance. Here is my mandatory overs. Sarcasm is at its peak, as a solace. Let us see bit objectively here.
What made Indians lose so cheap?
If the conspiracy theory that bookies-cum-mafias have threated and/or bribed the players is true, then nothing in the team's performance that we need to worry. It now falls in the hands of our CBI who would take it up only after they successfully allow Mr.Q to slip through their nose once again and after looking for the disproportionate amassing of wealth by every ward councillor. A Mark Shields would hail suddenly and media will give importance to him a la Brooke Shields. If the case is not that then, as a true Indian and a cricket fan I have to give my esteemed opinion on the team and its performance. So let us take that it the consipiracy theory is not true.
I do not subscribe to the general people's belief that Indian team has the potential and did not deliver. For the past one year or so I have been feeling that Indian team does not have potential to win any series, any more. Whatever potential it had it seized. They have proved it through their performance. In fact in a few matches in home they have even trashed the tagline lords of local. Indian fans have been wrongly setting their expectations based on a few players who were delivering half a decade ago. Sachin, Dravid and Ganguly are rather were real heroes upto last WC. They started showing that they are aging then on. Aging is not merely due to biological clock but also based on number of matches played. If Gavaskar and his period players were able to play till they reached 40s it was because they played less number of matches and hence were less injured (wear & tear). So ideally the board should have looked for slowly phasing them out after this WC. Maintaining two of this trio in the matches and relying less on them to win the match and expecting only their support is what the board should have done and fans should have prioritised. But what has happened is time and again the dependency on the trio did not diminish. Once in a blue moon, that too in local conditions, a person from the "new generation" won match for the team. But there never was consistency shown by them. This too probably could have made the board and fans to further rely only on the trio to deliver. But again its wrong priority. It is purely these "new generation" players and their mentors in the board have failed the team. These players do not have the potential to be of international calibre (to term it blatant) or have not played to their potential (to still give them their undue credit). Persisting with these dhonis, yuvarajs, harbajans, zaheers, agarkars, robins and shewags has what shown the early doors to the team in the WC, deservingly. I do not naively blame these players's non-cricketing revenue generation stream to be the reason for their failure. Fans and those who blame on these player's time in ad is missing a point here. Ad films of the players have been repeatedly telecasted but they are shooted only once. Players however, on an average, do not appear in more than three ads in a year. That might, at a max take one week effort of those players. For spending a week time if they get millions then its their luck. Those who blame them for this luck are blaming them more out of jelousy and/or deviating purposefully from the cause of the failure.
If these new-gen players have not delivered then whose problem for having them "perpetually" in the team? B-O-A-R-D is what I would blame. All wings (selection, administration, including the coach, manager and captain) of board have failed the team. There is no transparency to show why repeatedly failing new-gen batsmen or bowlers were thrusted into the team. Politicians and board executives who have vested interest in this slotting machine, are quick enough to give press comments, so as to divert the attention from the real cause (themselves) and make fingers to point only players. Who knows these politicians and vested interest board members could have even sponsored some goons here and there in the name of "fans" to first create hype and then behave badly once the team failed in WC matches. I even doubt media and bookies/mafia hand in this nefarious link. A press release like "(Still) I dont understand the actual reason why I am dropped from the team" by likes of Kaif whose doesn't see his blatant failure as reason (a total of a score runs in 10 matches) is unwilling to accept the truth means there is something serious behind the scene happening in chosing a player the criterion is not potential and consistency which kaif was lacking and still adamant not to admit that in public. The parameter of selection could been anything other than potential and consistency.
The real problem could be anything between the-board-didnt-go-for-actual-talent-hunt-due-to-vested-interest to there-is-absolute-dearth-of-talents-in-the-country. Either case there is no transparancy which is what matters here. This organisation lacks accountability abosolutely.
Befitting to the thamizh proverb sattiyil irundhaa thaanE agappayil varum (meaning spoon can get content in it only if the vessel contains any) the team's potential is exposed way before the super 8. Looking from a new angle now, I guess, Dravid was the one who first wanted every one (read fans) to realise it. His repeated uninspiring press statements like "we will deliver our maximum; we will do our best" had their early hint. He wanted the fans to understand that the team lacks potential and cannot deliver. But due to polarised mindset, thanks to hyper hyping media, the fans failed to see the truth. Once the truth out we are unable to bear it. He would have very well guessed that India could not make to Semis. But even he could not have imagined such a thrashing exit.
If the board withers its vested interest and actually looks for improvement, instead of trying to roll others head (already dravid hatao campaign has started!), they have to do a lot of introspection, come-up with a comprehensive plan to unearth real talent that shows potential and consistency from the new set of new-gens and make India a candidate that could reach next WC semis.
Will it happen?
Bermuda could not save India. All weekend 'blue billion' prayers for its victory went into drains. Rumours are on that a group of people handpicked from various parts of the country who have perfected their skills in self-molestation, last-rites performance, abuse have sought visas to visit Bermuda just to publicly (read amidst media glare) liquidate Bermuda cricket team players' effigy for their inability to make India reach Super-8. Everyone is trying to find fault with every associated persons (especially the players) and want to put their heads under guillotine. Every Tom, Dick and Harry (TD&H) has perfected his/her skill of what that or this player should have done. Being in India and my name serves the thamizh equivalent of TD&H, I too found moral right to give my expert comments. As a one who fately stumbled upon this link, you are destined to read my comments. Bear with them as you did with the Indian team's performance. Here is my mandatory overs. Sarcasm is at its peak, as a solace. Let us see bit objectively here.
What made Indians lose so cheap?
If the conspiracy theory that bookies-cum-mafias have threated and/or bribed the players is true, then nothing in the team's performance that we need to worry. It now falls in the hands of our CBI who would take it up only after they successfully allow Mr.Q to slip through their nose once again and after looking for the disproportionate amassing of wealth by every ward councillor. A Mark Shields would hail suddenly and media will give importance to him a la Brooke Shields. If the case is not that then, as a true Indian and a cricket fan I have to give my esteemed opinion on the team and its performance. So let us take that it the consipiracy theory is not true.
I do not subscribe to the general people's belief that Indian team has the potential and did not deliver. For the past one year or so I have been feeling that Indian team does not have potential to win any series, any more. Whatever potential it had it seized. They have proved it through their performance. In fact in a few matches in home they have even trashed the tagline lords of local. Indian fans have been wrongly setting their expectations based on a few players who were delivering half a decade ago. Sachin, Dravid and Ganguly are rather were real heroes upto last WC. They started showing that they are aging then on. Aging is not merely due to biological clock but also based on number of matches played. If Gavaskar and his period players were able to play till they reached 40s it was because they played less number of matches and hence were less injured (wear & tear). So ideally the board should have looked for slowly phasing them out after this WC. Maintaining two of this trio in the matches and relying less on them to win the match and expecting only their support is what the board should have done and fans should have prioritised. But what has happened is time and again the dependency on the trio did not diminish. Once in a blue moon, that too in local conditions, a person from the "new generation" won match for the team. But there never was consistency shown by them. This too probably could have made the board and fans to further rely only on the trio to deliver. But again its wrong priority. It is purely these "new generation" players and their mentors in the board have failed the team. These players do not have the potential to be of international calibre (to term it blatant) or have not played to their potential (to still give them their undue credit). Persisting with these dhonis, yuvarajs, harbajans, zaheers, agarkars, robins and shewags has what shown the early doors to the team in the WC, deservingly. I do not naively blame these players's non-cricketing revenue generation stream to be the reason for their failure. Fans and those who blame on these player's time in ad is missing a point here. Ad films of the players have been repeatedly telecasted but they are shooted only once. Players however, on an average, do not appear in more than three ads in a year. That might, at a max take one week effort of those players. For spending a week time if they get millions then its their luck. Those who blame them for this luck are blaming them more out of jelousy and/or deviating purposefully from the cause of the failure.
If these new-gen players have not delivered then whose problem for having them "perpetually" in the team? B-O-A-R-D is what I would blame. All wings (selection, administration, including the coach, manager and captain) of board have failed the team. There is no transparency to show why repeatedly failing new-gen batsmen or bowlers were thrusted into the team. Politicians and board executives who have vested interest in this slotting machine, are quick enough to give press comments, so as to divert the attention from the real cause (themselves) and make fingers to point only players. Who knows these politicians and vested interest board members could have even sponsored some goons here and there in the name of "fans" to first create hype and then behave badly once the team failed in WC matches. I even doubt media and bookies/mafia hand in this nefarious link. A press release like "(Still) I dont understand the actual reason why I am dropped from the team" by likes of Kaif whose doesn't see his blatant failure as reason (a total of a score runs in 10 matches) is unwilling to accept the truth means there is something serious behind the scene happening in chosing a player the criterion is not potential and consistency which kaif was lacking and still adamant not to admit that in public. The parameter of selection could been anything other than potential and consistency.
The real problem could be anything between the-board-didnt-go-for-actual-talent-hunt-due-to-vested-interest to there-is-absolute-dearth-of-talents-in-the-country. Either case there is no transparancy which is what matters here. This organisation lacks accountability abosolutely.
Befitting to the thamizh proverb sattiyil irundhaa thaanE agappayil varum (meaning spoon can get content in it only if the vessel contains any) the team's potential is exposed way before the super 8. Looking from a new angle now, I guess, Dravid was the one who first wanted every one (read fans) to realise it. His repeated uninspiring press statements like "we will deliver our maximum; we will do our best" had their early hint. He wanted the fans to understand that the team lacks potential and cannot deliver. But due to polarised mindset, thanks to hyper hyping media, the fans failed to see the truth. Once the truth out we are unable to bear it. He would have very well guessed that India could not make to Semis. But even he could not have imagined such a thrashing exit.
If the board withers its vested interest and actually looks for improvement, instead of trying to roll others head (already dravid hatao campaign has started!), they have to do a lot of introspection, come-up with a comprehensive plan to unearth real talent that shows potential and consistency from the new set of new-gens and make India a candidate that could reach next WC semis.
Will it happen?
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