Dibacle in the worldcup: a great shock

Hi Friends how r u all? Hope u all r doing well. If u went through my previous posts you must be aware of my passion for cricket so u may easily imagine how bad that last one week was for me. And also for the millions of cricket fans in this cricket crazy country. It was never expected even in worst of the imagination that we would be out of the world cup in such an early stage. It was shocking really shocking. I really can’t believe that world cup is just started and more than a month of cricket is remaining and we are already out. Ohhh what a shock!

Whole of the country be a common man, bollywood stars, politicians or any body else no one is free from this anger, shock and despair. So is this hype which is being created over the defeat in world cup valid? After all there are lots of things in this country which are not going the way it should be and you never see that kind of hype or even half of that panic is created over any thing else. Up to some extent I am agree with this argument. But not completely, we are a nation which definitely having lots of problems and not many things are in place here but even then there are quite a few things like cricket which give hope. Hope to feel like best in all. I agree that a win in cricket won’t solve any of our grass route problems but when we win internationally or have success and recognition at world level it boost the confidence of this entire nation. It always connects each Indian with a single hope, single dream. So if there is something that can connect or unite the feelings of the entire country which is diversified in all possible ways, that definitely worth this kind of hype. When team wins the whole country pours all the love for them treat them as God so when they loose so miserably they can’t run away from some kind of backlash and anger from the same people. Having said that I would be agreeing to the fact that the violence and hatred ness against the players is not what desired. Whatever they have done or not done, they are our heroes who did us proud in the past.

But there is definitely some thing to be corrected. Indians still loves cricket. They want their team to bounce back and again compete with the best in business, so am I. every body around is busy finding out reasons for this disaster and possible solutions to improve. I also gave thought about where we lack. I can figure out three big reasons for Indian dismal performance

1- Fear of failure- For me that was the biggest reason. If you fear from failure you can never win. There was enormous pressure on this team. There was pressure of 1 billion hopes and anticipation of all the Indians. No other team in the entire world has that kind and amount of pressure to perform. The hype that was created by media was depicting that this the best team in the world and only they are going to win the world cup. That is ok if a team takes it as appreciation and motivation but unfortunately it created hell lot of pressure. And they clearly were not relaxed not even against Bangladesh. It seemed that they were all the time thinking about “what if we lose?” and this clearly didn’t help team cause and they miserably underperformed.

2- I observe for last 2 years whenever this team lost, and questions were asked from the captain and coach. They always had answers like “we are in a build process” “this is a learning experience” and things like that. I believe that the winning is about habit and Indians were not used to win often recently. They were never clear about their combination and always experimenting with very important positions. As a result of that when they were in must win situations they didn’t has neither belief that they can win nor having the best possible combination to do that. So these experimentation and build process lasted for too long and it didn’t let players having enough confidence for coping the pressure of performing.

3- And last but not the least that we are lacking in basics of one-day cricket. We are far from international level in fielding. Our running between the wicket and ability to stop flow of singles is not up to the mark. As it was proved in match against Sri Lanka. But these are the things that are being kept in lower priorities as we rely on individual brilliance till they win matches for us. But whenever star fails these negatives of Indian team comes to the limelight as they are coming now.

So what u all thinks about these reasons or you think something else. Please share through your comments.

This is the time when everybody is talking about changes and rebuilding the team and there will be changes too. Coach and captain would be sacked. But is this the solution of all the mess in Indian cricket. I guess not completely. Approach towards the game must be changed from the grass route level. And BCCI has lot to do, lot more than just changing the captain and coach. Will they do the needful after this shocking defeat? Only time will tell. We can only hope that India starts winning again and make all the cricket lovers and spectators happy and proud.

Bye take care.....