Losing Is Dangerous In Cricket

“ There was a duck with two ducks behind it, a duck with 2 ducks ahead of it, and a duck with a duck ahead and a duck behind”..defines the Indian innings debacle in recent India Vs England test series.

So I was actually right when I mentioned after the retirement of test match specialists  Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman that ,if we had to measure what impact it will have on team India ,than just reduce two days in any test match featuring India.

And here  we are ,maximum test matches in which India plays ends in three days .Yes, India is not even able to play for the full quota of five days ,since the retirement of two greats , forget about the result. Two successive tours of England both away and home ,India faced humiliating defeat and straight away goes the radar on all the non performing players of India. Each defeat brings out the statistics of your failures which have a far bad impact than the ones which comes out when you perform well.

Whether it’s Mahendra Singh Dhoni -  India’s most successful captain who had won coveted titles for India through its unorthodox captaincy and was cynosure of every Indian or Virat Kohli - the emerging superstar of India who  had proved his mantle in all the formats of cricket through his consistence performance ,defeat in recent test series with England had put a question mark on their capabilities.

A defeat raises all the points which are being covered under the shadows of win and actually doesn’t matter as long as team is winning. But same points become critical issues or matters to look for if they are not working your way. Some people blame it on IPL ,some on lack of practice , some on lack of experience ,some on lack of skills ,some on lack of international exposure and they all can prove themselves right as long as you are losing.

Winning is a continuous process while losing is not. Its true that Indian team is like Rafael Nadal, Champion on clay, struggles on grass.The need of the hour for the world champions India is  to live their game and lift their team. Rather than playing the blaming game they should focus on what next ,and what they can do from here and can at least play to their potential on grass.