Re: India : Road Ahead
Take anyone out, put anyone in...try all permutations and combinations but the result will be the same.....
I am 100% convinced that the problem with Indian Cricket is THE FRIGGIN INDIAN PUBLIC and the FRIGGIN INDIAN MEDIA.
They put the team on the PEDESTAL after one good performance, and beat them with CHAPPALS after one bad performance.
To perform on the field, the team needs to play WITHOUT FEAR AND PRESSURE. Twenty20 World Cup was a rare occasion when there was no pressure on the team....and see the way they performed.
Look at Australia, they may be 30/3...but they go about batting in their usual manner....not recede into a shell overcome with negativity like the Indian team does.
The INDIAN PUBLIC and MEDIA must learn to not get intoxicated by team's victories and at the same time not lose sanity in defeat. The ch*t*a public must learn to be objective at all times.....otherwise with such intense pressure of expectation - the team simply cannot perform fearlessly.
To quote Rabindranath Tagore :
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee to ever-widening thought and action -
Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.
Well...ok.....not 100% relevant but I just had to get that in. Great Lines.