Cricket DiariesWhy I do not agree with Gambhir
April 3rd 2010 03:55
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Gautam Gambhir seems to be in an attacking mood. He has had enough DLF Maximums on the field, and now seems to be unleashing them outside it as well.
Writing in his latest column, Gambhir has been forthright in saying that IPL, to him, was about cricket only! Bye-bye IPL Nights, bye-bye the off-field spice that was added to the tournament to suck as much money as possible from the same!
Carrying his feisty nature over, he has also accused the media of unnecessarily pillorying Yuvraj Singh for being out of form in the tournament. So far so good, and I agree; you can't keep a good man down for long.
But, I have a problem with the "He has won us many games in the past"
Past is history Sir. Especially, if the correlation between the player from the past and the player from the present tends to almost zilch. For one, in the past, Yuvraj was a fit-looking, and the best fielder in the Indian set-up. And by a distance. He was the Jonty Rhodes of Indian cricket.
And the only manner in which the really excellent fielders can look ordinary is when they are not fit enough to be on the field.
He has looked pedestrian on the field. He has run after the ball in the manner I run after a missed-bus with a ton of accessories on my back. And that is where I have a problem.
Every batsman or a bowler have been out of form at one or the other point in their career. So is Yuvraj. Who the heck cares about that? But, to see Yuvraj Singh on the field in this tournament has been an as painful an experience as watching Sourav Ganguly field.
And that, to me, is an underlying warning of things to come.
Talking of Gambhir itself, I wonder whether this media-attack would get him another reprimand and soon!
Writing in his latest column, Gambhir has been forthright in saying that IPL, to him, was about cricket only! Bye-bye IPL Nights, bye-bye the off-field spice that was added to the tournament to suck as much money as possible from the same!
Carrying his feisty nature over, he has also accused the media of unnecessarily pillorying Yuvraj Singh for being out of form in the tournament. So far so good, and I agree; you can't keep a good man down for long.
But, I have a problem with the "He has won us many games in the past"
Past is history Sir. Especially, if the correlation between the player from the past and the player from the present tends to almost zilch. For one, in the past, Yuvraj was a fit-looking, and the best fielder in the Indian set-up. And by a distance. He was the Jonty Rhodes of Indian cricket.
And the only manner in which the really excellent fielders can look ordinary is when they are not fit enough to be on the field.
He has looked pedestrian on the field. He has run after the ball in the manner I run after a missed-bus with a ton of accessories on my back. And that is where I have a problem.
Every batsman or a bowler have been out of form at one or the other point in their career. So is Yuvraj. Who the heck cares about that? But, to see Yuvraj Singh on the field in this tournament has been an as painful an experience as watching Sourav Ganguly field.
And that, to me, is an underlying warning of things to come.
Talking of Gambhir itself, I wonder whether this media-attack would get him another reprimand and soon!
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