The strongest weakpoint of The Wall
I am not a cricketing expert. I have seen hardly thirty percent of matches Rahul has captained, that too most of these in bits and pieces. But one dark side of Rahul's captainship I have consistently observed that he does lack the ability to rotate across his bowlers.
It seems Rahul does not apply his brain at all while his side fields. He just allows opponent batsmen to play through the overs. He allows them to settle. He never tries to get break through by bringing variation in the attack. So far I know, a lot has been crticized on the recent "over experimentation" in batting order, unfortunately, no cricket analyst, has pointed on "no experiment (lifeless)" in bowling order. To me, the crux of Indian failure is Rahul's captinancy and the crux of Rahul captinancy failure is this particular issue.
Some of you might be more involved in the game of cricket, hence, more competent to give a better judgment on this particular aspect of Rahul's captainship. But from a layman understanding level of cricket, we find quite a few times, a team wins a game because the innovativeness they bring in their bowling order. I remember, during Azhar’s or Saurav’s captainship we used to win matches because of the mere fact that the captain applied many a such innovations to unsettle opponent batsmen. There are quite a few instances where 'out of the box' thinking in slotting sequence among regular and irregular bowlers resulted in winning breakthrougs. No cricket lover must have forgotten the last over bowled by Tendulkar in the Hero cup match several years ago where he gave away only 2 runs. Can any of you site any match during Rahul’s tenure at helm, where we have won because he made some choices at the right moment in the bowling combinations.
A captain lifts the cup when a team wins. That is precisely so, because a captain has a role in almost every moment of the game. S/he can turn around the match by making right filed placement, right combination of bowling attach, right instructions to players. I am really doubtful whether Rahul does any of the thing on the filed.
It looks like; I am behaving as the subject in Raju Srivastava’s joke where he made satire in his inimitable style that how when our players fight hard in the sun, some of people play cricket relaxing in their cozy drawing room watching TV set and throwing ideas like as if they have the best clue for the moment. Well, I am ready to take the risk of sounding like a “chhoti muhn badi baat”, yet I could not resist myself sharing my frustration on Rahul’s poor bowling strategy (in fact no plan/or strategy at all) in this blog or for that matter in any other forum, with the hope that somebody will tell Rahul to innovate and strategize on filed to give life to the bowling attack by making it innovative and dynamic.
Because of Dravid's this inability, I am indeed apprehensive that India has any chance in World Cup or any future tournaments. Dravid is undoubtedly a great batsman, but I do think he has to come out of his copy-book style (his batting is known for this style) attitude while allotting slots to his bowlers to emerge as a decent captain.
Do share your thoughts.
It seems Rahul does not apply his brain at all while his side fields. He just allows opponent batsmen to play through the overs. He allows them to settle. He never tries to get break through by bringing variation in the attack. So far I know, a lot has been crticized on the recent "over experimentation" in batting order, unfortunately, no cricket analyst, has pointed on "no experiment (lifeless)" in bowling order. To me, the crux of Indian failure is Rahul's captinancy and the crux of Rahul captinancy failure is this particular issue.
Some of you might be more involved in the game of cricket, hence, more competent to give a better judgment on this particular aspect of Rahul's captainship. But from a layman understanding level of cricket, we find quite a few times, a team wins a game because the innovativeness they bring in their bowling order. I remember, during Azhar’s or Saurav’s captainship we used to win matches because of the mere fact that the captain applied many a such innovations to unsettle opponent batsmen. There are quite a few instances where 'out of the box' thinking in slotting sequence among regular and irregular bowlers resulted in winning breakthrougs. No cricket lover must have forgotten the last over bowled by Tendulkar in the Hero cup match several years ago where he gave away only 2 runs. Can any of you site any match during Rahul’s tenure at helm, where we have won because he made some choices at the right moment in the bowling combinations.
A captain lifts the cup when a team wins. That is precisely so, because a captain has a role in almost every moment of the game. S/he can turn around the match by making right filed placement, right combination of bowling attach, right instructions to players. I am really doubtful whether Rahul does any of the thing on the filed.
It looks like; I am behaving as the subject in Raju Srivastava’s joke where he made satire in his inimitable style that how when our players fight hard in the sun, some of people play cricket relaxing in their cozy drawing room watching TV set and throwing ideas like as if they have the best clue for the moment. Well, I am ready to take the risk of sounding like a “chhoti muhn badi baat”, yet I could not resist myself sharing my frustration on Rahul’s poor bowling strategy (in fact no plan/or strategy at all) in this blog or for that matter in any other forum, with the hope that somebody will tell Rahul to innovate and strategize on filed to give life to the bowling attack by making it innovative and dynamic.
Because of Dravid's this inability, I am indeed apprehensive that India has any chance in World Cup or any future tournaments. Dravid is undoubtedly a great batsman, but I do think he has to come out of his copy-book style (his batting is known for this style) attitude while allotting slots to his bowlers to emerge as a decent captain.
Do share your thoughts.
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