India Team Lacked Specialist Openers

You might wonder that I am going to discuss the present scenario of Indian team ,than my answer would be a no rather than a expected yes .

Opening position is the only slot with which India had experimented much and the truth is that team India had never found a specialist opener till date. The recent experiment at this position by the India’s most luckiest captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is with Rohit Sharma who is known to  get far more chances than what a player with a history of failures usually deserves got a chance to open as well but the experiment has only complicated the problem .

The point which should be  noted here is that ,in a country with 27 first-class teams with at least two specialist openers in each squad , the  national team is made to experiment middle order batsmen turning out to open the innings .Sachin Tendulkar , Sourav Ganguly , Rahul Dravid ,VVS Laxman , Virender Sehwag and more recently Virat Kohli ,who staked their claims as middle-order batsmen ,have all opened for the country in one format or the other. It is indeed  surprising why a country , with such a settled domestic structure , struggles to find a specialists to do a specialized jobs. Some of the better teams in the world , except India , are looking for specialist in every format of the game. How can you expect team to excel if they don’t have openers , it actually affect the performance of other players .

Team India usually experiments to achieve short-term goals and the team is usually bound to suffer in long term . Dhoni’s trial and error method need not bring in the desirable results with consistency. However looking at his recent tactics , it looks like India is strengthening its bench strength in bowling for 2015 world cup , as I am pretty much sure that our experienced pace attack is going to take charge for team .But how can we don’t have ‘horses for courses’ in batting department when it’s the batting for which Indian team is known for !!

Ganguly -The Movie

Well the trailer says it all about the man who has achieved his stature fighting through all the odds ,who has served his country with full dedication and aggression ,who is responsible for what India is today in world cricket, a visionary who has proven his mettle, he is Sourav Ganguly India’s most successful captain. Ganguly –The movie is a great tribute to the real hero of  Indian cricket .

Sourav Ganguly is one of his kind- he defines leadership, he is known as God of offside, he is having over 10000 runs in ODIs, from his debut to his comeback he roared like tiger, he really is  ADA of our Indian team .The DADA is going to rock the theaters also as he has done in the cricket field.The answer to  the question in the trailer about his comeback -“Main gaya hi kab tha” bowled me out .Actually their was no comeback for him, importance if being Sourav Ganguly can be seen from the country wide protest and how desperately every Indian wants their captain to be back in side from the day when he is been dropped from the team. Every cricket lover was just waiting for his comeback .He made his comeback like DADA, he is a winner not a quitter, better you don’t ever put any challenge for him otherwise you will be victim of his DADGIRI. To add to his legendary even after he officially retired from international cricket, in his second inning also the same story got repeated .Also known as “Prince of Kolkata” he has led Kolkata Knight Riders  for three seasons of IPL and  then in fourth IPL none of the franchises showed interest in picking him up and that’s the biggest mistake done. However later picked by PWI in the next IPL the DADA was back with the similar magic which he has done on Indian team, well that spell is top secret I guess, but good leaders (magicians ) know it very well how to get best out the available resources .

“Ganguly -The movies” is going to be a blockbuster hit for sure no doubt about it, his career is a perfect  legendary which is going to be part of motivational speeches and management studies. And yes as a captain  you will always live in pages of Indian Cricket and in the hearts of many Indians  .

     

Sourav Ganguly Defines Leadership…!!!

Sourav Ganguly –the India’s most successful captain, a perfect leader who has done all the hard work in the hard times and made India’s present count in the international cricket. He is confident, he defines aggression and was the first one who dared to talk to the likes of Steve Waugh (as English was a bit of problem that time among Indian cricketers) and challenged them in the cricket field ,that’s why he is the DADA of India. He is the pied piper of Indian team.

After the match fixing issue in 2000 team India was in a reforming phase and in need of a very good captain  and  eventually they got the one who turn out to be India’s best captain ever. The Bengal Tiger accepted the challenge and put all his effort on each and every selection. He believed in youngsters and has picked the right talent for team with every one having a defined role. The effort which he has put in team formation can be justified by the use of Rahul Dravid, he has used his wicket keeping abilities and created an extra position in the team. Fielding was considered the weak area of Indians he has bought in specialist fielders like Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif. It was under DADA’s captaincy only India achieved highest success and started winning the overseas series also. Australia was considered unbeatable that time but he dared and shown the world how to win against them, Indian cricket really has achieved great heights in his captaincy. It was under Sourav Ganguly captaincy only India reached the finals of world cup after 20 years. With a group of all young player  and a confident leader the team India has won millions of heart. The techniques  which DADA set  became standard and are still used by another India’s successful captain MS Dhoni whose potential is also noticed by Sourav Ganguly and made his debut in his captaincy only .

Presently captaining Pune Warriors India-after their unsuccessful IPL 4 the team looks re-invigorated under his captaincy- the good leaders have that effect and Sourav Ganguly have the special ability to recognize the quality of player and bring the best out them. With no so big names in their side PWI have performed really well in the initial matches and are among the favorite teams in IPL 5 .

Sourav Ganguly has all the qualities a great leader should have, with his confidence and aggression he is always there to back his team mates. He has over 10000 runs to his name in ODIs and commonly known as God of off side, he and Sachin Tendulkar still makes the India’s most successful opening pair, he once hold the record of highest sixes with his superb power hitting and I still consider him to be the who best executes a six. Age seems no barrier in his strength and even today he is leading his team with same determination which he had for team India. We just cannot have another DADA in Indian cricket, his contribution to Indian cricket is priceless .