Have been scanning the newspapers/watching TV today and it is more of the same- Sachin Tendulkar's ego, Greg Chappell's ego, the senior player nexus, the pathetic state of the domestic game today.
Here are my two cents -
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Stadium Win Draw
Nagpur 2 1
Delhi 0 4
Mumbai 3 0
Jaipur 0 1
Mohali 1 2
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In Mohali's case,the pitch for the game that yielded a result was a green top. Incidentally, Bengal played Punjab in that game. In the Bengal ranks was a certain Saurav Chandidas Ganguly. The scores in that game were
156/10 Bengal
157/10 Punjab
148/10 Bengal
133/10 Punjab
Here are the innings break ups of the two drawn games
208/10 Gujarat
503/9 decl Punjab
125/2 Gujarat
353/10 Punjab
348/10 Mumbai
113/3 Punjab
including 4 centuries.
Has anyone from the media asked, nay demanded for Daljit Singh's ouster as Chief Curator for producing absolute tripe wickets after producing a green top?
Has anyone bothered to demand penalties from Inderjit Singh Bindra's Punjab Cricket Association for allowing the pitch character to change so dramatically over the course of 3 games?
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Maharashtra played its home games at different venues - there is no one place they call home.
Has anyone said that this is not on?
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Feroz Shah Kotla produced four draws in 4 games with three innings scores in excess of 400.
Has anyone called for a ban on the Kotla? Has anyone demanded penalties of Arun Jaitley's DDCA for producing dull, characterless wickets?
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Has anyone asked why the Chinnaswamy stadium hosted only one game ( 4 day) this season?
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As regards the state of the domestic game the Ranji Trophy Super League produced a grand total of 3 Double hundreds in 52 games.
27 of the 52 matches resulted in outright victories - a win percent > 50.
In the Plate League, the 33 matches played produced 1 Triple hundred and 0 Double hundreds.
16 of the 33 matches resulted in outright victories - a win percent slightly less than 50.
Has anyone bothered to ask if the wickets are getting more bowler friendly or whether our batsmen have forgotten how to make tall scores?
Has anyone focussed on the fact that more games tend to produce results as compared to the previous years?
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Sweeping generalizations are being made of the state of the domestic game today - did any of our broadsheet writers bother to sit down and actually reconcile innuendo with fact? And if the state of the domestic game is as bad as it is made out to be, have any of our talking heads/journos held the BCCI's feet to the fire?
No.
Because it is a lot easier to deal with innuendo about Sachin Tendulkar's ego, Greg Chappell'e ego, the senior player nexus, the pathetic state of the domestic game today than it is to report fact.
Just my two cents.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
More of the same..
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4 comments:
The truth is the Ranji matches are more competetive these days than they were 6/7 years back. There are more results than ever before and division positions change rapidly with the result of every single game. Journos accuse Indian team players of not concentrating on domestic cricket but not one of them bothers to look up our international calendar and our domestic calendar to see how many days these guys really get to have to play domestic games. It is easier to just say that the STARS neglect domestic cricket. Idiots
Prabu,
Our international cricketers are culpable too- they will think nothing of participating in a jamboree in Abu Dhabi but will feign tiredness when playing domestic cricket.
Vide the number of "stars" who have shown up for the 20/20 bash.
Not that I am a votary of 20/20 and endorse that thrash fest but, it is a BCCI mandated tournament; all players are available - then why aren't their bums on the cricket field?
C'mon - you have to give them some time to adjust. Losing in the WC for the older guys is definitely devastating nad not easy to get over that grief. They may not be mentally prepared for it what with all that is going on.
Fair enuf Prabu- but this is just one instance when "Team India" players have been available but have been no shows in domestic games.
And of course "journos accuse Indian team players of not concentrating on domestic cricket but not one of them bothers to look up our international calendar and our domestic calendar to see how many days these guys really get to have to play domestic game" - its the easiest thing to do :)
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