Thank You Mazher Mehmood

All three Pakistani players have been awarded punishment of prison by England Court in match fixing case.  This is an extra ordinary event in the history cricket. In Pakistan most of the people praised this decision. Because in a country like Pakistan free and fair trial of these players was impossible. Pakistan is a country where President is famous as Mr. 10% and has passed 10 years in jail. Where a person who was punished by the court for illegal appointments in past is now Prime Minster. Where a jail mate of President is Minister for Defence.

Therefore free and fair trial of these players was impossible in Pakistan. All credit goes to Reporter Mazhar Mehmood who discovered these players and brought them into the justice. There for all cricket lover should say thanks to Mazher Mehmood. Pakistanis knows that at present this decision is not looking good for the image of Pakistan, but infact this trial will play very positive roll in prevention of corruption and promotion of cricket in Pakistan in future.

Mazher Majeed’s Allegations Against Indians and Australians

In England during hearing of Fraud case against Pakistani cricketers, a recording of conversation between Bookie Mazaher Majid and Reporter Mazhar Mehmood has been presented. According to this recording Mazher Majeed has claimed that almost all senior Australian cricketers are involved in match fixing and spot fixing. He also added that he was in contact with Indian players Harbhjan Sing and Youvraj Sing. He also disclosed his contacts with some other Pakistani players like Umer Akmal, Kamran Akmal and Imran Farhat.

Now this is test case for ICC. Can ICC launch inquiry against Australian and Indians? Australian board has already rejected Mazhar Majeed’s allegations. ICC, BCCI and CA were the strong supporters of Mazher Majeed’s allegations against Pakistani players. But now CA is not taking  his allegations against Australians serious. Though BCCI has not showed its reaction till now, but some senior players has denied Mazher Majeed’s allegations against Indian players. Remember that these senior players were very furious against Pakistani players when they were named by Mazher Majeed as fixers, but now when he named some Indians they are furious against Mazher Majeed instead of Indian players. This attitude shows double standards of Indians and Australians. One can understand that they are not sincere with the game; otherwise they were due to demand similar inquiry as it was in case of Pakistani players.

If ICC is sincere in prevention of match fixing in cricket, it should contact Mazher Majeed and should launch inquiry for judging the allegations but if ICC remained silent against Australians and Indians it would be considered that all this drama was only a conspiracy against Pakistani players. 

Shoaib Akhtar Vs Sachin Tendulker

Shoaib Akhtar has claimed in his autobiography that legend Sachin Tendulker was afraid of his fast bowling on some occasions. After his statement, so called democratic Indian has adopted stupid behavior against Shoaib. They demonstrated their anger on roads and burnt Shoaib’s  pictures.

One can disagree with Shoaib’s remarks regarding Tendulkar and several other players, but is the behavior of Indians according to the principles. What Indians want? Should every one write only according their wishes?

The same behavior destroyed their team performance in recent days. Before the tour of England BCCI was only focused on showing its power to cricket world by useless opposition of UDRS. So, the players were also realizing themselves superior then the others, therefore, they were not preparing themselves for England tour. Resultantly they loss the matches with huge margins.

Shoaib has written his autobiography. He has written what he saw during his career, so therefore, there is no need for him to ask any one before writing. Cricket fans are best judges. Let them decide true, lie. BCCI has no right to demand from Shoaib to apology Tendulker.

The videos of Tendulkar dismissals against Shoaib are available on net. Every one can watch them and then decide.

No doubt that there are several records on Tenndulkar’s inventory. But clean bold by Shoaib on first bowl, hit by Shoaib on head and got by Shoaib uncomfortably on Short bowls are also on his inventory.  Even one can consider his ever bed performance in Semi Final of World Cup 2011 against Pakistan, where after getting four clean chances he only managed to score 86 runs. 

Ultimate Causes of Indian Defeat in England

Indian cricket team has finished her tour of England without tasting flavor of win. Before this tour when Indian team was playing in West Indies,  Indian fans were saying that this is a very boring series because Indian team  is far more better then West Indies and therefore, the competition is boring. Every Indian was saying that the true competition will be in England. But then the entire world saw what happened in England. Infact there was no competition between theses two. England outclassed India in every format of cricket. Even Indian experts said that Indian players are playing like school boys.  The question is why all it happened?

Unfair Support of BCCI for Indian Players

The main factor which effected Indian performance is the nonsense behavior of BCCI. Unfair support of BCCI for Indian players made Indian players unserious during performance. Despite making themselves perfect in every field, these players realized that they can get positive results by pressurizing umpires as they did in West Indies.  These players were now thinking that even when BCCI prevent ICC from complete use of UDRS in test matches single handed, who can dare to go against Indian interests. Therefore, the focus of Indian players was on unfair means despite performance.

Lack of Interest

The approach of Indian players was very ordinary. It was looked like the players are just meeting the formalities to come to the crease and then return to dressing room. Any player was not interesting to stay on the crease. The reason is quite visible. These players are earning in millions by playing IPL for T20 Matches. Now playing test matches for less money is just fatigue for these players.

Conclusion

Before the world cup 2010 a weak team of Pakistan which was under pressure because of so many controversies, managed to defeat England in England in a Test match and two ODIs matches.  It means that England is not unbeatable in England but professional approach is required. But strong Indian team even not won any single match in any format. It means that there is lack of professional approach in the performance of Indian players for different reasons. BCCI should focus on the betterment of their team performance despite showing their power in useless matters. BCCI has to support measures like complete use of UDRS in every format of cricket for the betterment of cricket. Now BCCI has to rethink regarding it behavior, they should understand that they cannot pressurize umpires in every match, so the opposition of UDRS is useless furthermore. They should stop their player by using long tong after every controversy. BCCI has to made players to concentrate on performance rather then concentrating on controversial things.

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.