Are We Strategizing Ourselves Properly?
We are definitely not doing a good job in terms of strategizing ourselves against our opponents. I have repeated in many of my earlier posts that we need to control Sehwag. AND YES WE CAN DO IT. No matter how dangerous he is, the fact remains that he is still a risky player offering many chances. We need to determine his weakness and attack it. We need to frustrate him. I understand that it is not easy because he is a quality player who can shake your confidence in a couple of balls. But it is doable. That is what a coach is for. Come on BOB…..If sehwag is weak against the rising balls coming into his ribs then bowl 200 balls in net to practice it. We have used such tactics against tendulkar in the past ( in 90s) and we need to do the same against sehwag.
However the million dollar point made by Faisal in another post is:
“we seem to have neutralized Tendulkar, Ganguly, Yuvraj and Kaif. My worry is, that if we get rid of Sehwag early in the next games, one of these remaining four will suddenly prove destructive”
I have absolutely no doubt that such a scenario will happen for real. The fact of the matter is that this Indian team is far better and much stronger than the Pakistani team. There is simply no comparison. Yes we have beaten them in the test match but the fact remains that their batting and bowling is far superior than ours. Therefoee we need to use our available resources as smartly as possible.
Are We Still Restructuring??? My Foot !!!
A lot of guppies keep saying that lets introduce some quality players instead of these young rookies. The question is where the hell are we going to produce quality players from? It has been 2 years since 2003 world cup and we are still satisfying ourselves by considering all of our defeats as a result of “re-structuring” and “re-building”. Yes, 2 years is not a long time but it is not a very small time period either. The fact of the matter is that regardless of the time involved, there is no doubt that we have totally failed to unearth/produce quality players. Lets just accept the reality. Yasir hameed, muhammed hafiz, imran farhat, imran nazir, tauqfeeq umar and shoaib malik are our future prospects and all of them are a total failure outside Pakistan. After 2 years of continuous experience with all of them, we know that they are not of international standard. what else do we have lined up? Nothing….I am just scared who will ever replace inzi?…and inzi has hardly a year left in him. And what do we mean when we say that lets give a chance to our young players. I mean come on guys. Salman Butt has played 15 one days matches in a row. Imran farhat was given a chance in more than 30 matches in a row. Same is true about hafeez and taufeeq umar. Lets accept that Pakistan has failed to poduce quality players and one of the reason is that cricket is not as popular in Pakistan as it is in India. Remember those absolutely deserted stands in Pakistan and a house-full show in India in all three test matches. The difference is obvious.
And bowling huh…….it has been a nightmare….A country who produced imran , wasim and waqar has to rely on Khalil and razaq…….it is really sad….Surprisingly, not a long time ago, our replacement bowlers such as aqib javed, amir nazeer, mohsin kamal and ata ur rehman were pretty decent. So there is something really terribly wrong……Not to mention that it is the same system which produced an artist like zaher abass, a fighter like javed miandad, a master like imran khan, a magician like saqi musthaq, and destroyers like Wasim and Waqar?
I have no idea about Sami either, he seems to have more parchi than he has “talent”. I guess everybody knows about Hafeez (except Kaleem) so no need to talk about him.