11 reasons 1. Overconfidence that spinning pitch will be sufficient. 2. No homework, no opponent’s weakness analysis. 3. Poor captaincy 4. Wrong team selection. 5. Wrong final 11 selections. 6. Wrong field placing. 7. Spineless batting. 8. Poor bowling. 9. Poor coaching 10. Division among team. 11. IPL minded Above 11 players played in the field in favor of India .
Re: Reasons and actual players
by Nagarjun none on Dec 18, 2012 12:40 PM
Perfect Analysis... These were indeed the factors for losing... Adding to this, the re-building phase is not being addressed responsibly by BCCI and some senior cricketers like Sehwag, Gambhir and Dhoni himself... You have very rightly pointed out the IPL minded attitude of the players... It is the most important factor for India's decline in test cricket... Players r becoming more and more in-disciplined in their approach to the game and thats the main reason why India is losing so many test matched...
Re: Reasons and actual players
by Nagarjun none on Dec 18, 2012 12:41 PM
Perfect Analysis... These were indeed the factors for losing... Adding to this, the re-building phase is not being addressed responsibly by BCCI and some senior cricketers like Sehwag, Gambhir and Dhoni himself... You have very rightly pointed out the IPL minded attitude of the players... It is the most important factor for India's decline in test cricket... Players r becoming more and more in-disciplined in their approach to the game and thats the main reason why India is losing so many test matches...
It is only IPL Why the players will concentrate when they get much more money with much less effort ? They are also busy managing the monry they have got so that it gets multiplied. We fool watch the nautanki (read as IPL) so advertisers pay money to them.
IPL is not at all serious cricket and where lot more money is.
Australian team was down due to IPL and indian team also.
There is no point in blaming someone or any department of the Indian Cricket team. They have failed and the team, selectors and BCCI have to share the blame. It would be the best to learn from what we have done in the past few test series, and not repeat the same in future. The first lesson is 'Test Cricket and T-2-/ODIs are separate formats and have to have separate players with different approaches towards the game.' Second-We must learn that test cricket is not only about scoring runs quickly.. it is about tiring the bowler, playing out overs after overs, being patients even if ten overs are consecutive maidens. Third- We have to have a pack of hungry bowlers who are fit and raring to go, and we should keep rotating them test by test, series by series, even if they perform. Fourth- We need a captain who is innovative, mature, patient, thinking and who listens to his bowlers. I was very much astonished to see that Dhoni had not given proper field to the bowlers, and they sufferred. In tests you have to buy wickets, you do not have to bok a team out for 200 runs, you have to allow the team to score 350 runs and in the time given allow your bowlers to give away some runs, spin a cobweb around them, like bedi prasanna, venki and Chandra did... you have to give time, you have to allow the other team their quota of 100 overs per innings. then only the test match can be won. We do not need a thrid man and a sweeper if two or three boundaries are scored there, allow that.
