Indian Cricketing Action
Cricket has been an attractive game among the Indians, may it be the children or youth or the aged. It has become an inevitable part of each and every individual in India. Although its not been our national game, it has its recognition in all parts of the nation. We can easily find cricket being played in streets and small grounds. When the Indian team plays a match we can notice all TV shops flooded with people. This shows the interest over the game. There is always high hopes on Indian cricket team. Anyway the expectation is not always fulfilled.
The Team India is suffering from horrible form for the past few months. May be the downfall started in the caribbeans where the Windies broke the Indian thread of consecutive wins while chasing targets. Their worst form continued in the DFL cup '06 at Malaysia and Champions Trophy '06 in India. The Host even failed to reach the semis' following their loses against the Windies and the mighty Aussies.
There may be many reasons yielding their worst shows recently.The pick of the lot may be; the big guns failing to fire once again, the bowling crumbling asusual, and few of youngsters suffering from injuries. The batting had always come good when India had been in best of forms. Normally atleast one of the big guns fire and the middle order tends to lend a supporting hand. But this never happened in the recent matches that India played. Indian are considered good players against spin, but in recent past they have struggled against the part timers aswell which is not a pretty good sight. When there is a bad performance with the bat its the bowler's part to defend low targets. Its very pathetic that Indian bowlers have never been deadly in any part of the world. Its not necessary that they need to be express like the shoaibs or lees or bonds but its important that they maintain a good line and length consistently. The spinners have also not being effective in picking up wickets. There is always been low confidence among the bowlers over themselves which has been a major drawback.
Chappell was brought in as the coach for Team India so that India wins a maximum of matches.There has been a few euphoric highs but many lows. The strategies used are not effective, rather its now turning out to be worst. Sending in Irfan at no 3 was started as testing and is now become the normal batting order of India. And this might have lead his way for his poor bowling performance. Providing ample chances for kaif has now ended up with nothing other than, he continuing his bad form.
India once again thronged with injuries. Yuvraj Singh, who has shown vast improvement in recent times is injured and was not able to make up for the important match against the Aussies in the Champions trophy '06. The injury was said to have happened while playing kho-kho; which is not very impressive. Experts say that player dont tend to take even minimal care playing those unofficial sports during practice sessions. And now Yuvraj is doubtful even for the World Cup '07 which is scheduled 4 months from now. The Indian Team has to have an eye over these kind of injuries which may result in major set-backs. Just a month back the batting mastro has returned from injury and now it is the in-form middle order batsman. These are never positive sights for the team. May be, Yuvraj should try to recover fast for the World Cup and provide confidence for the Team India and the fans.
With the current form of the Indian Team, its clear that they cant make it even to the semis' of the World Cup '07. Only if players work hard with "commitment" and come back extremely well and play good cricket, they can dream of competing with the best in the earth at the World Cup '07. Even if they cant win the cup, they need to put up a good all-round cricket to keep the crowd cheering behind them.
