The Champions League is on in South Africa and even before the tournament could get down to the business end, three of the teams from India are out of it and one is just a match away from elimination.The teams from India are doing very poorly even after having four foreign players in their side.It is disheartening to see no Indian player is on the top of run scorers list or wicket takers list.Delhi is having the pole position as of now but who knows what might happen in two days.
There are various reasons for this failure.Teams which have been quite unbeatable in the IPL have surrendered meekly to the force of the opposing teams. This is mostly due to the inexperience, the domestic players have in foreign conditions and also because, most of the other teams play as a single unit through out the year in various domestic competitions and that allows them to work as a team ,understand each other's strength and weaknesses. This in turn enables them to be more competitive whereas teams in IPL get together only once in a year and that isn't quite enough to gel together.
The Australian Cricket Board surprised one and all when it recalled all rounder Shane Watson from the CLT20 when his team,the Sydney Sixers were well on their way to making the cut for the finals. He could have been a vital cog in their journey and could have helped them win with the form that he is in. But the Australian board thought otherwise and wanted to preserve the hard hitting all rounder for the upcoming series against the Proteas.The Indian players on the other hand are having fun in CLT20 like always.Their attitude hasn't improved even after the defeat in the world T20.
Many feel that since Shane Watson is a fast bowling all rounder, he needs to be preserved in order for him to be fit for the South African series. But even though we don't have any all rounder, we do have players who are on the better side of 30 and their fitness is waning with each passing day.Many players like Viru, Gauti and Sachin are tend to get injured and this should be prevented with a tough season ahead of us with teams like Australia,England and Pakistan due to visit us soon.Even our skipper has to get his rest ahead of this season because he looks worn out and jaded after the continuous dismal performances from his team.
The best option for these players would have been skipping the CLT20 and playing some domestic games in order to regain their form or taking some rest and keeping themselves fit ahead of this season.Instead they have gone to play in South Africa where their presence is not really needed by their team because this is T20 and anyone in the 15 are eligible and talented to play in the eleven and it wouldn't have made much difference to the team's chance since the seniors are also not performing well anyway.The only people who would have missed them would be the sponsors who demand them to play, for them to make money.
BCCI has its root problems in IPL and CLT20 .This system should change in order for India to regain the number 1 status in the tests. Our players are aging and the board would do well to preserve them for crucial series.We need a better system than this to look into these matters and to stop the team from losing crucial matches in home conditions.It would be a shame if India lets England or Australia win even a single match in our home conditions and we can only redeem ourselves by extracting revenge against them in the upcoming series and for that we need a full strength team, raring to go.This isn't gonna happen in the present scenario and whether the team will make a comeback??is a tough query to answer with the way things are going now.
There are various reasons for this failure.Teams which have been quite unbeatable in the IPL have surrendered meekly to the force of the opposing teams. This is mostly due to the inexperience, the domestic players have in foreign conditions and also because, most of the other teams play as a single unit through out the year in various domestic competitions and that allows them to work as a team ,understand each other's strength and weaknesses. This in turn enables them to be more competitive whereas teams in IPL get together only once in a year and that isn't quite enough to gel together.
The Australian Cricket Board surprised one and all when it recalled all rounder Shane Watson from the CLT20 when his team,the Sydney Sixers were well on their way to making the cut for the finals. He could have been a vital cog in their journey and could have helped them win with the form that he is in. But the Australian board thought otherwise and wanted to preserve the hard hitting all rounder for the upcoming series against the Proteas.The Indian players on the other hand are having fun in CLT20 like always.Their attitude hasn't improved even after the defeat in the world T20.
Many feel that since Shane Watson is a fast bowling all rounder, he needs to be preserved in order for him to be fit for the South African series. But even though we don't have any all rounder, we do have players who are on the better side of 30 and their fitness is waning with each passing day.Many players like Viru, Gauti and Sachin are tend to get injured and this should be prevented with a tough season ahead of us with teams like Australia,England and Pakistan due to visit us soon.Even our skipper has to get his rest ahead of this season because he looks worn out and jaded after the continuous dismal performances from his team.
The best option for these players would have been skipping the CLT20 and playing some domestic games in order to regain their form or taking some rest and keeping themselves fit ahead of this season.Instead they have gone to play in South Africa where their presence is not really needed by their team because this is T20 and anyone in the 15 are eligible and talented to play in the eleven and it wouldn't have made much difference to the team's chance since the seniors are also not performing well anyway.The only people who would have missed them would be the sponsors who demand them to play, for them to make money.
BCCI has its root problems in IPL and CLT20 .This system should change in order for India to regain the number 1 status in the tests. Our players are aging and the board would do well to preserve them for crucial series.We need a better system than this to look into these matters and to stop the team from losing crucial matches in home conditions.It would be a shame if India lets England or Australia win even a single match in our home conditions and we can only redeem ourselves by extracting revenge against them in the upcoming series and for that we need a full strength team, raring to go.This isn't gonna happen in the present scenario and whether the team will make a comeback??is a tough query to answer with the way things are going now.
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