I believe in Team India, Do you?

Thank god that final the misery for Team India is over. Mahendrasingh Dhoni must have had different feeling where he was on the moon for after World cup and IPL championship wins than today. He was immediately dragged on to the ground and into the dust. As Sixty per cent of his team back to the home country, he must be very eager to see his new home in Ranchi. In this blog there are references of the today which are happened in the past, but pardon me for that as this blog is in the making for last 1 month. I have almost finished it but did not publish it so…

Andrew Strauss and Mahendra Singh Dhoni

It was really good for me to be busy this week as I did not get the chance to watch the TV. Like me there were not many so fortunate and had to watch it. It’s really been the heartbreak to all Team India fans as there team performed miserably on the field. This was really the shocker of the performance as Team India did not looked like number 1 ranked team in the world. Even though there were good performances, they were never consistent. Is this really the end of the domination or is there another story to it.

I got the chance to watch it for full day and India has scored 300 score after 7-8 test matches. It’s good to see that with little bit of fight from the Wall and the tail, it reminded me the old Indian teams in the past. Whenever they visited the foreign soils, this is what India always performed there. I have seen great India collapsing in the past but somehow I or we forgot that. Once upon time India were called Tigers at home and hapless visitors, so now you know why that was.

English Press going GAGA..

English are on the moon with this performance, everyone new that India is not the number one Team in the Test cricket. Truly, they are not. They have earned that position with the good performance to the home. This was achieved with the dismal performances of the other team.  It was an open secret that India is going to struggle.

England winning test matches 4-0

I was really surprised to see the India Vs England advertisement on the TV directly challenging India. But that proved right and that only added fire to the always aggressive English Media. English team had so many bad memories against country that they ruled for so many years. They finally got the opportunity and they capitalized it. Once in their life time they have got the opportunity to be proud of their Cricket team as in the past there performances were really pathetic.

My view on this is that this is just a passing phase for English Team, they going through a purple path. It’s easy to be go to number 1 position but very difficult to stick to that position. India has learned that in a hard way and England’s time will soon come. At least India stayed there nearly 2 years. It is really a great feat if we see the Indian bowlers.

Past performance of team India in England

India always played well in England. In fact on last tour they beat English with some gritty performances by two left handers i.e. Zaheer and R. P. Singh. We actually got lucky last time when we some drawn first test match, of course with help of wrong Umpiring decision. It was 1-0 win for Indian’s but they knew how they achieved it.

Previous to that there were many good performances or I even can say that, most of our outside India wins were from England. All Indian batsmen scored tones of runs in English environment. I actually thought that our bowling was better than the English but fitness was only thing which separated two bowling sides. There were much fitter and quick than our bowlers.

Our record outside India

I have seen many worst performances of India pre Saurav ganguly captaincy. India used to lose matches to Zimbabwe that time. We had to fight it out for Test and One day with lesser ranked teams. It was infusion of some players like Sehwag, Gautam, Dhoni and Zaheer with that prime form of 5 Pandav’s cricket that propelled India to number one ranking.

Even though with the much improved performance on Team India, they record hasn’t improved outside. Wherever they have won the margin is only sing match i.e. 1-0. There hadn’t been a convincing win on the Team India’s CV. It’s true that they haven’t won convincingly and don’t have smashing record outside like Australia and South Africa has. Somewhere we forgot the old Indian performance and hence got this shock.

India with World cup 2011

Post world cup complacency

This could be related to world cup fatigue, as they have been playing relentless cricket for 5-6 months. Immediately after the world cup, they even did not get the time to soak up all the excitement. They played that 1.5 month of cricket continuously. If you have seen the actual team, most of the key players are outside the team due one or another injury.

We can give thousand reasons when we loose but Team real looked tired and uninterested in Cricket and on the other had, England team was rearing to go so this has to happen.

What are the positives?

Only positive I can make out from this is that we cannot fall below this. As this is been the worst performance in present generations mind. At least for the newer generation, I thought India didn’t played that bad but lower order Englishmen played well, especially Stuart Broad. This could be little redemption for Stuart Broad after getting depressing 6-sixes by Yuvi. One fact which I have learned from my experience and watching TV is “Make your own mistakes”. It’s sometimes good if we do it first time but it not possible every time.  On more thing that might have come out of it as we could see all the weaknesses in this Team India which will surely be helpful for building future Indian team.

At least our ODI teams played well, it’s just that they could not perform on crucial moments.  Otherwise most of the matches went to the last over of the match. As we are been the better run chaser, which we proved by winning world cup at too chasing. We could not bat once in the Twenty-twenty and ODI’s. They will surely play well in the future so this team is to watch for.

My Final view on this team

England ODI Win

India has vast reserves of players. The country line India who has 1 billion plus population it should not be hard. We have excellent one-day and T-20 Team but current Team India is not as bad as it has been made out by English Team. They have beaten Australia in Australia where not many teams can boast of that record. English team is really playing well in England but we need to watch their performance in India because ‘beating India in Indian Condition’ is the actual Test. If English Team can do that they I can accept them as number one Team.

We should not write of Team India as we have an able leader. This man has really changed the face and stature of Team India to a different level. India is now one of the most dangerous teams in the world and with Dhoni, this team will surely be one of the best team.

At least for this moment where Team India is down, we have to support our team. They have given us so much joy, now we have to tell them that ‘hey guy, we are with you’. This will surely make them feel better and boost their confidence. One should always remember that after all they arealso human beings, as we go through bad phases they also are in one. For me these bad phase come quiet often but that’s the different subject for the future.

I still see this team fighting hard and dominating in the future. Key to that will be fitness because neither we Indian are not physically fit nor we have culture of fitness. One more thing about the captaincy issue that we will be having an aggressive captain in form of Virat kohli, so that issue has been already got settled. I agree that I am seeing lot of positives from the team who just lost everything. I am an optimist and will like to be like that, I have seen this team performed lot better and surely will see that again 

so I believe in Team India, do you?