It's known from ages that win of any army is only possible if they are led by a soldier who is capable of making Strategies and fighting against the opposition "with" his army till he win the battle. History has seen many such warriors.
Every team game needs such a sailor to sail their team to the banks of victory cauz just playing is not enough you have to win. Cricket has many books of rules and they are adding up year by year, So in such a format, role of a captain becomes crucial. Cricket has seen many great Captains but the topic in oven is of change of captains.
Recently the switching of leadership is much more flexible for most of the countries, Like Mathews will be the 4th Sri Lankan captaince in last two years. England Introduced 3 different captains for different formats and that really uplifted their game as a team. Brand new austrailian team after undergoing many changes Looks dominant on any opposition specially because their captain scoring runs like riverflow. Bangladeshi known as underdogs has also found a responsible captain in young mushfiqurahim which is clear from their ODI win against West indies.
All these example shows the vision of teams to look for the players capable of leading the team in future. Its actually rule of nature every autumn old leaves of a tree falls and new ones take their place, similarly if a Cricket board wants their country's team to stay on top of the world its Important not only to nurture the present talent available, and also to find new players to replace the retired ones, But all of this was not done with the Indian team.
Consider Dravid, Laxman Sachin making one of the greatest batting lineup of all times along with Kumble and Zaheer making the opposition fearful of the sub-continent tour. Now one fine morning you realize that all of them are gone and team is left for talented but inexperienced players.
Test cricket is what needs something more than just beautiful drives and frontfoot defense. Its about concentration patiance and like Bradman put it play every ball like its your first. Bowling good line and lengths and making Batsmen to push at it. Its all to be learnt while playing and being on the pitch with your mentor and learning it ball by ball.
Latest controversy is the Resistance of BCCI to change their most successful captain MS Dhoni. When selectors wanted to stepdown Dhoni from all his powers to control Cricket India. All the senior Indian players are asking for change of Captain after two successive defeats in home conditions. It may be because of their feeling that Dhoni can't just handle pressure situation and leave everything to the opposition so if they make some mistake we can hope some reward. This overdefensive captaincy may be good in shorter format of the game where you can bounce back with a couple of overs in your favour but in five day cricket you need to bat for two days and then send some firing spells from your best bowlers with attacking field placement.
With the current situation of the team where most of the players are either to retire or have not cemented their place well enough to play every match of India, So the only candidate left after MSD is Gautam Gambhir. He has shown some fight in last two test but not enough to win India either of them, The two run outs of Sehwag and Pujara with Gambhir on the safe side also punches against him. Inside NEWS of a websites tells that MSD have filed a complaint regarding Gambhir's Onfield "Attitude" which is highly against the teams Interest. Gambhir have waited so long to be named as ODI vice-captain, But this also goes to shining Virat Kohli who is yet to prove himself amongst the new lot of talent in last 5 years.
Every team game needs such a sailor to sail their team to the banks of victory cauz just playing is not enough you have to win. Cricket has many books of rules and they are adding up year by year, So in such a format, role of a captain becomes crucial. Cricket has seen many great Captains but the topic in oven is of change of captains.
Recently the switching of leadership is much more flexible for most of the countries, Like Mathews will be the 4th Sri Lankan captaince in last two years. England Introduced 3 different captains for different formats and that really uplifted their game as a team. Brand new austrailian team after undergoing many changes Looks dominant on any opposition specially because their captain scoring runs like riverflow. Bangladeshi known as underdogs has also found a responsible captain in young mushfiqurahim which is clear from their ODI win against West indies.All these example shows the vision of teams to look for the players capable of leading the team in future. Its actually rule of nature every autumn old leaves of a tree falls and new ones take their place, similarly if a Cricket board wants their country's team to stay on top of the world its Important not only to nurture the present talent available, and also to find new players to replace the retired ones, But all of this was not done with the Indian team.
Consider Dravid, Laxman Sachin making one of the greatest batting lineup of all times along with Kumble and Zaheer making the opposition fearful of the sub-continent tour. Now one fine morning you realize that all of them are gone and team is left for talented but inexperienced players.
Test cricket is what needs something more than just beautiful drives and frontfoot defense. Its about concentration patiance and like Bradman put it play every ball like its your first. Bowling good line and lengths and making Batsmen to push at it. Its all to be learnt while playing and being on the pitch with your mentor and learning it ball by ball.
Latest controversy is the Resistance of BCCI to change their most successful captain MS Dhoni. When selectors wanted to stepdown Dhoni from all his powers to control Cricket India. All the senior Indian players are asking for change of Captain after two successive defeats in home conditions. It may be because of their feeling that Dhoni can't just handle pressure situation and leave everything to the opposition so if they make some mistake we can hope some reward. This overdefensive captaincy may be good in shorter format of the game where you can bounce back with a couple of overs in your favour but in five day cricket you need to bat for two days and then send some firing spells from your best bowlers with attacking field placement.
With the current situation of the team where most of the players are either to retire or have not cemented their place well enough to play every match of India, So the only candidate left after MSD is Gautam Gambhir. He has shown some fight in last two test but not enough to win India either of them, The two run outs of Sehwag and Pujara with Gambhir on the safe side also punches against him. Inside NEWS of a websites tells that MSD have filed a complaint regarding Gambhir's Onfield "Attitude" which is highly against the teams Interest. Gambhir have waited so long to be named as ODI vice-captain, But this also goes to shining Virat Kohli who is yet to prove himself amongst the new lot of talent in last 5 years.
Nagpur test decide so much of destiny of New Era In Cricket after the legendary retirements. Its time for youngsters to make a team which is respectable enough to tour Australia and Draw a Test series there. Everyone knows that Indian team is undergoing a reformation phase and it will take minimum of 2 years, But BCCI first has to take Tough decisions, or announce their Autocracy.
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