Are we the best batters? Yes! Only in our turf! And an above average team in the sub-continental pitches! Abroad - well it is a mystery land! Victory, most of the time, remains elusive for the men in blue. We never tried to chase it - means we never thought of implementing the plans that experts are giving to plug the holes in our parachute.
Bumpers are our biggest enemy! I still wonder why India is not proposing an amendment against the cricket rule that allows one bouncer per over!? I think that may save India's batting face overseas.
The World Champion, The Champion of Champions and World's Second Best ODI Team (Had I posted this before the New Zealand tour it would be World's Best ODI Team) are the tags we are carrying now! (Don't know for how long!) Still we lose to a team that's Cricketing rank, relatively, is in abyss. Loss against the Rainbow Nation is excusable (again, the typical Indian mindset). Yet the way we were routed make nothing, but blood in eyes and heart!
Except the Captain and his deputy none of the hunters in blue were comfortable - struggling against swing, bumpers, pace and what not? What India should do to rein supreme in the other shores? is a template recommendation that one can see in media whenever we tour outside! The question is - what we had done to those 'blabbers'? No pitch in India is supporting Pacers. No condition in India is favorable to pacers and short ball handlers except their need in the team!
As the phrase 'Bad carpenter blames his tools', we blame and curse the fielding restrictions for our bowlers' dismal show. Rules are common. Men make it good and bad! It won't be necessary to say what it is to us! A curse deadlier than the one that is upon the Captain of the Flying Dutchman!
India's best area in bowling department - the spin - is equally bad. We have spinners whose balls never spun the web around the opponent in the 'alien land'. Be it the Spin Quads of 80's or the Spin Double of last decade or the Young Brigades of present, a classical spinner performed win remains elusive. And it would remain so until the the step towards rectifying it is made!
This is not a scribbling of an Indian fan who is fed up with India's recent outings against Proteas and Kiwis. It is the snippet of the feeling that remains resounding in the hearts of 'The Billion Plus'!
To conclude - Think and Act!!!
