Posts Tagged ‘Indian cricket team’

  • Give the Indian Cricket Team some time and patience

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    There have been many questions asked of the Indian cricket team of the practice sessions that they seem to be missing. It is not a surprise that the side is giving up on the options practice sessions given that there have been many days between the two games and the heat would have started to pick up.

    The cricket world cup game that India plays West Indies in will be played at Chennai, a city which is known for its heat. It will make much more sense to have only two or three such big net sessions with intensity rather than have more than them but without too much intensity – will not make too much sense.

    It is obviously easy to criticise if the team does not do too well but the fans need to show some patience, some restraint in condemning a team which has done well in the recent times.

    My sense is that while this team does not have it in them to win the tournament, they will get to at least the semi-finals.

  • Eden Gardens going the Commonwealth Games way?

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    The countdown continues to tick away as the Cricket World Cup nears and with only three odd weeks to go, one would have thought that the work for the tournament would be complete. No, one isn’t talking about the Indian cricket team, but that of the stadiums.

    But according to the latest reports, the work is far from being over. In fact, there are worries that the stadium in Kolkata, one of the best in the world when it comes to cricket, the Eden Gardens, may just be scrape through its deadline. That is, it may get ready just in time before the games – and that is if it gets ready at all.

    This seems to be a case of the repeat of Commonwealth Games that was held in India last year when there were chances that the tournament would be taken away from the country.

    Really, why is it that we have the habit of procrastinating everything till the eleventh hour. Why cannot we get prepared, with a deadline of three months before any such big tournament? Is it so difficult?