Cricket, Records & India

Any Sport comes under individual or group depending upon the way it played, if it plays by single player then its individual but if it needs more then one player then it becomes team game. Cricket is the game which contains eleven players to make a team and in all the three formats namely Test Match, One Day International better known as ODI and shorter version of cricket T20 of International Cricket Council(ICC), to win game team needs to perform consistently in all the three departments of the game i.e. batting, bowling and fielding. Any team can defeat other team in one or two games at the expenses of  bowling or batting performance of individual but to remain invincible in its every appearance of game there is no two thoughts that team has to perform in all the three departments.

For few years now India emerges as money spinner for ICC and Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) is richest board in the world of cricket, that’s why its players get respect from all the playing country members and former players on and off the field. That is why score of Indian current players get other names and famous and known in the world of cricket with these names –

• Sachin Tendulkar – Master Blaster, Little Master, God of Cricket 
• VVS Laxman – Very Very Special 
• Rahul Dravid – The Wall 
•  Virendar Sehwag – Sultan of Nafazgarh 
•  Harbhajan Singh –  Turbanator

Ex Cricketers Indian and foreigner after there retirements get jobs with electronics media as experts or commentators and often use the lines as cricket in India is religion, cricket crazy country or cricket fanatic, moreover they play the game on the pitch of media screen with views full of if’s and but’s  and it is worth mentioning here that nobody is expert in this world of anything and its biggest example in front of Indians are of Sunil Gavaskar  and Amitabh Bachchan who despite gem of there respective fields unable to promote the career of their sons in which they are highly respective and idol, there sons flops badly.

India has lost last eight test matches they played on foreign bouncy pitches, five ODI and Two T20 consecutively, in spite of having best players as part of team. Below is glimpse of all the matches –

• 1^st Test Match – India v/s England – 21^st July to 25^th July,2011; Lords, London ; England won by 196 runs; Sachin Tendulkar scored 34 and 12 in first and second innings. 
•  2^nd Test Match – India v/s England – 29^th July to 2^nd August, 2011;Trent Bridge, Nottingham; England won 319 runs; Sachin Tendulkar scored 16 and 56 runs in first and second innings. 
•  3^rd Test Match – India v/s England- 10^th August to 14^th August,2011; Edgbaston, Birmingham;   England won by an innings and 242 runs; Sachin Tendulkar scored 1 and 40 runs in first and second innings. 
•  4^th Test Match – India v/s England – 18^th August to 22^nd August, 2011; Kennington Oval, London; England won by an innings and 8 runs; Sachin Tendulkar scored 23 and 91 runs in first and second innings. 
•  T20 – India v/s England – 31^st August,2011 – Old Trafford, Manchester; England won 6 wickets.
• 1^st ODI- India v/s England – 3^rd September,2011 – Riverside Ground, Chester-Le-Street; no result because of rain and England did not faced the desire twenty five overs for result based on D/L methods. 
• 2^nd ODI- India v/s England – 6^th September,2011 –The Rose Bowl, Southampton; England won by 7 wickets. 
•  3^rd ODI – India v/s England – 9^th September,2011 – Kennington Oval,London; England won by 3 wickets; D/L methods. 
•  4^th  ODI – India v/s England – 11^th September,2011 – Lords ,London; Match tied; D/L methods. 
•  5^th  ODI – India v/s England – 16^th September,2011 – Sophia Gardens,Cardiff ; England won by 6 wickets; D/L methods. 
• 1^st Test Match – India v/s Australia – 26^th December to 30^th December,2012; Melbourne Cricket Ground – Australia won by 122 runs ; Sachin Tendulkar scored 73 and 32 runs in first and second innings. 
•  2^nd Test Match – India v/s Australia – 3^rd  January to 7^th January,2012; Sydney Cricket Ground – Australia won by and innings and 68 runs ; Sachin Tendulkar scored 41 and 80 runs in first and second innings. 
•  3^rd Test Match – India v/s Australia – 13^th January to 17^th January,2012; WACA – Australia won by and innings and 37 runs ; Sachin Tendulkar scored 15 and 8 runs in first and second innings. 
• 4^th Test Match – India v/s Australia – 24^th January to 28^th January,2012; Adelate Oval – Australia won by 298 runs ; Sachin Tendulkar scored 25 and 13 runs in first and second innings. 
• T20 – India v/s Australia – 1^st February,2012 – Sydney Cricket Ground – Australia won by 3 runs.

At the time of India’s both tour of England and Australia India sent its players few days advance so that its players acclimatize in the local conditions and that was the reason at the time of first test match against England media hype the match instead of India v/s England game, they were talking about Sachin’s Hundredth Hundred but its shocking to code here that Sachin is part of India team and India’s victory or defeat will goes into the record book and will be remember not by anybody’s personal records but by the outcome of result, personal records looks better and highlighted only at the time of team’s victory but if India will keep on loosing the games after games everything will be forgotten with concerned player’s retirement, so its better for senior players to announce their retirements if they keep on failing game after game before the pressure of followers mounts due to their failure after failure and selectors take harsh decision and throw them out of team. As it is now quite visible that followers are boiling on to the poor show of their so called stars and few times recently speculations were in the air of retirement of VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid, so its better for senior players to take decision of their retirements at right time and exit from the game with respect and honour before they fire  by Board.