Performance of “Legend” Sehwag

Just before the starting of India tour to England, ICC held a poll for selection of players for  “All time great team of test cricket history”.  As we know that Indians are now-a-days crazy regarding cricket after winning the recent world cup, therefore, most of Indians poll there votes and obviously selected most of Indian player as members of all time great team of test cricket. Amazingly Morli who is most wicket taking bowler in the test cricket history was not selected as member of this team and that showed that how credible was polling.

Two members of that team were Sachin Tendulkar and Verindar Sehwag. Although Sachin Tendulkar has failed in recent matches but no one can deny his greatness after achieving so many record. But the selection of Sehwag in that team was really shocking. Although he is good striking player of one day and T20s, but his standard is not of a player to be declare legend in test cricket. What is his ability cricket? If you want to  consider someone for scoring quickly as member of that team, then Shahid Afridi and Saneth Jaysoria are far better then Sehwag. The recent performance of Sehwag in test match against England disclosed his abilities after getting king pear.

So, ICC has to remain careful in future to avoid joking with legendry cricketers by selecting players on poll instead of performance and records. Actual ICC tried to disgraced players like Javed Miadad, Imran Khan, Richard and  Botham by including ordinary players like Sehwag to that Team.  Infact this was not ICC all time great team of test cricket, it was India all time great team of test cricket.  

Appointment of Ijaz Ahmed as Bating Coach

PCB has appointed Ijaz Ahmed as batting consultant / batting coach for the tour of Zimbabwe. He has performed the same duties in recent past but was failed to provide positive results. Experts are agreed that Ijaz Ahmed’s own technique of batting is not correct. This is a serious question that if his own technique is not correct, how he can correct the youngsters.  Here another question arise that, is there no other Pakistani former player to be appointed as Coach. What has happened to Inzamam, Basit Ali, Asif Mujtabah and other legends like Saeed Anwer and Javed Miadad. We can found the answer in one of the interview of Shahid Afridi which he recorded for a TV Channel. He said that Waqar Younis became against me because I suggested the name of Javed Miadad as Batting Coach.

Infact in Pakistan every one wants authority. Every politician, every officer and even every supper star wants authority instead of only performing his duties. The only reason because of PCB is not appointing a capable and responsible supper star as batting coach is that Waqar Younis does not want another support star to share authority with him. Even PCB chairman also not wants to appoint a person as batting coach who can interfere in team matters and can challenge his wishes. Otherwise there is no other hurdle in appointment of batting coach for the team.

To me the appointment of Ijaz Ahmed as batting coach will produce no positive results and it is just a tactic to reduce the pressure of cricket fans for appointment of batting coach.

Causes of Indian Defeat in Test Matches

After winning the recent world cup 2011, Indian cricket fans were expecting outstanding performance in Test series against England. But Indian team disappointed millions of fans.  In presence of record holder batsman like Sachine Tendulkar, historic captain for India MS Dhoni, Rahul Dravid named as “wall” and exciting off spinner Harbhajan Sing, present performance of Indian team is not acceptable to cricket fans. Besides these legends some very exciting players like Gotham Gambir and Suresh Raina are also part of Indian team. The question is what happened to Indian team suddenly?

Infact this is fact that the record of Indian team, outside the country is not good from the years. Most of Indian batsmen are masters of slow wickets. The example of Indian good performance at slow wickets is current performance of Indian batsmen at sub-continent in world cup. After this good performance even young team of West Indies trouble Indians at West Indies. Although India won the series but still West Indies gave them tough time at several occasions. But in England these stars batsmen failed completely and England won the first 2 test matches very easily. So, one can say that weak technique of playing on fast wicket is the prime cause of Indian failure in England.

The second cause of failure in England is fatigue. After performing with full capacity in World Cup 2011, Indian players were required rest badly. But BCCI did not consider win in world cup enough and instead of providing their players rest they use them as money earning machine in IPL. After so busy schedule of IPL definitely players were tired and they did not provide required results in England.

The third cause is adjustment of technique. After playing in short format of ODI in  World Cup and then T20s in IPL players are not able to adjust their technique to Test standard suddenly. ODI and T20 are completely different format from Test and it requires solid technique, temperament and patient to play in test matches. 

The final cause to me is lack of eagerness. In shape of wining the world cup and earning money through IPL, Indian players have got much more then they desired. They have won the world cup and therefore became heroes of nation. Then they played IPL and earned money, therefore, one can say that most of the player achieved their desires what they were looking for, so now there is lack of required eagerness for best performance in their attitude.  This is obvious standard for every game that after his all achievement players prefers to announce retirement.  So, according to this standard the retirement of some Indian players is due, but they are still their instead of providing chance to youngsters.