Let us not jump the gun - Srinivasan

[asterix]

:phehehe:

N Srinivasan, the BCCI secretary, has said the board will review the Indian team's performance in England at the conclusion of the tour but believed the Test series would have been closely contested if not for a spate of injuries. India have been poor in England, losing the first two Tests by large margins and facing defeat in the ongoing third Test at Edgbaston. They will lose their No. 1 ranking if England win the series by a two-Test margin. India, however, were hit by injuries to key players - Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan, Gautam Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh - at various points during the tour. Srinivasan said it was important to take all the issues into consideration before evaluating the team's performance. "You have to put things in perspective," he told the Indian Express. "We missed Zaheer Khan due to injury. Virender Sehwag was unavailable for the first two Tests. Gautam Gambhir had to sit out in the second Test. So we never had a full strength side. With everybody fit, we believe the series would have been a lot closer. "Of course, we will review the performance of the cricketers after the tour and will do what needs to be done. But at the moment a tour is going on and a one-day series will follow the Tests. So we shouldn't jump the gun." India captain MS Dhoni has struggled in England. His wicketkeeping has been poor, he's scored only 126 runs in five innings and his captaincy has been criticised as well. Former India captain Ajit Wadekar, however, said Dhoni had been let down. "He has been let down by poor planning, scheduling, injuries and selection issues," Wadekar told the Times of India. "This team is emotionally drained after the World Cup victory and never really got time to recover because of the IPL. The team came together in England from various places and didn't click as a unit. Given the number of injuries, the selectors should have been more proactive in their thinking." India played just one warm-up game before the start of the Test series, while several players were involved in back-to-back series - the World Cup, IPL, the tour of West Indies and England. One of the criticisms levelled against the BCCI is that it has failed to prioritise Test cricket. "It's nonsense," Srinivasan said. "Test cricket is the pinnacle of the game. We are not obsessed with the numbers like a section of the media. But when we reached the top of the Test rankings and stayed there for close two years, nobody raised these questions. Now, just after one bad series, criticisms are flying thick and fast. We must learn to be sporting. Being the No. 1 doesn't mean we won't lose a match or series. "Everybody wants to play for India and unless one does well for India he doesn't become a big hit in the IPL. I believe all the players aspire to play Test cricket and do well there, because the performance in Tests matters most." http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-india-2011/content/story/527270.html

[CSK Fanatic]

But when we reached the top of the Test rankings and stayed there for close two years, nobody raised these questions. Now, just after one bad series, criticisms are flying thick and fast.

:thumbs_up:

[achilles]

Heartening to see him make sense.

[cowboysfan]

**** you ,you and your chief selector lackey needs to resign for the good of indian cricket.

[Sooda]

We reached the top despite, not because of, his and the boards efforts.

[Ultimate_Game]

We reached the top despite' date=' not because of, his and the boards efforts.[/quote'] :two_thumbs_up: It was folks like Tendulkar, Laxman, Dravid & Zaheer who took us where we are inspite of BCCI and people like Srinivasan. Other than fixating over IPL there's precious little done by these guys to ensure India gets better. By the way Srikanth did manage to do something - get his pathetic son in the Emerging Players squad.

[Karan114]

**** you ' date='you and your chief selector lackey needs to resign for the good of indian cricket.[/quote'] + What a ****ing scumbag this N Srinivisan is.

[Fontaine]

This clown gives no mention of how poorly this series has been planned with no real preperation.

[The Realist]

There was no plannng full stop. Players and officals just turned up like it was a charity match or testimonial and assumed everthing would click in place. With people like that in charge nothing will change or improve.

[NareshK]

The team was not 100 % focused on winning from the start. They thought they could just get into the series and slowly find their groove as it goes on but that's impossible when the other team is hungry and desperate to win and well prepared. I think not having an established coach also went against the team as Fletcher is still only in his second series and still only getting to know some players in this tour. It was his job to keep the team motivated and it would be hard to do that if he didnt share a good rapport with all of them.

[Cricket Tragic]

Srikkanth says fatigue not an issue Kris Srikkanth, India's chief selector, has blamed the collective batting failure for series defeat in England, and said the loss had nothing to do with fatigue or poor preparation. "If you see the FTP, all countries are playing cricket 365 days a year whether England or Australia," Srikkanth said. "It is not the Indians only. The fact is that cricket is being played the whole year in whatever format - Test, ODI or Twenty20. So I don't think that it is the fatigue factor for the performance in England." However in the last 12 months India have played more Tests than any other team and more one-day games than anyone except Pakistan. In addition to 14 Tests and 29 ODIs over the past year, India's players also took part in the gruelling IPL, which began within a week of the World Cup final. In the first three Tests this series, India have not managed to post a total in excess of 300, and Rahul Dravid is the only batsman to have averaged more than 40. Srikkanth said the batting had failed to perform as a unit. "The batting did not click for us. In the Indian side, if batting clicks everything clicks. We also did not do well in bowling and fielding. England bowling attack is ideally suited for the conditions. "It is a fact that our top five batsmen have not clicked in the series so far. But the same bunch of cricketers have been doing well during the last couple of years. The same combination had defeated South Africa in South Africa. It our bad luck that in this particular tour nothing has clicked for us." The BCCI has been criticised by former cricketers for its failure to prioritise Test cricket, but Srikkanth defended the Indian board. "Let us not indulge in the blame game - on the players or the administrators or the BCCI. Nobody is to be blamed and it's not the time for that. It is just that we are going through a bad phase." England have replaced India at the top of the Test rankings, but while Srikkanth was confident India would be able to bounce back, he said it was time to rebuild the team. "We have to learn from the series in England, look into what went wrong. We also have to identify and support new talent when the time comes," he said. "We all have to put our heads together and plan for the future," Srikkanth told the Times of India. "We have to start the process all over again without complaining. We have to try our various combinations to get the best team like we did before the World Cup. We even dropped Yuvraj Singh, who came back strongly into the ODI team and left a huge impact on the tournament. We want to do similar things now."

[kabira]

But when we reached the top of the Test rankings and stayed there for close two years, nobody raised these questions. Now, just after one bad series, criticisms are flying thick and fast.

well if you had planned out important tours, we would have been even more dominant in those 2 years...you idiot

[TheWall]

for a moment thought it was 'Let us not use the gun' thank god - the players r saved...

[asterix]

I agree with Srikkanth when he says, "fatigue is not the issue". When the tour started, we all were thinking that fatigue could be one of the most important reason. The main reason is bad attitude and bad work ethics of the players..They are simply bored of playing cricket (especially Test cricket). Most of them now go through their motions. The focus has shifted somewhere..

[kabira]

^so where is the focus then?? How come all that focus thing is only for this series?? You are delusional.. You are saying they don't care anymore as they have bank balance..really?? so few years ago, without IPL, their bank balance was empty?? Yes we have done badly in this series...many things have not gone right for us and England have came hard at us.

[Guest Gunner]

Boss, koi iss ********* ko daal do yaar. :mad: :mad:

[vvvslaxman]

Leave alone the excuses. England was too good for us. Without Zaheer khan our bowling will struggle to bowl out most of the county sides twice let alone inform England batting side. Batting is our strength. Togetherness has been missing there since only half the guys toured Windies. Combination of both struck us very badly. Hope we don't get whopped around by every other team.

[ganeshran]

Why is he going to hump the gun?

[achilles]

Being the BCCI secretary < being a wissil phodu