Tough Times Ahead for Indian Cricket

Scarcely a year subsequent to winning the ODI Cricket World Cup, Team India winds up in a soup. Two embarrassing arrangement white-washes against England and Australia followed by a disillusioning loss because of minnows Bangladesh in the Asia Cup are not actually the outcomes a World cup winning group might want to put on its resume. Indeed, even the harshest of Team India's faultfinders couldn't have anticipated such a defeat. Besides, the manners in which things appear to be going, one gets the feeling that very little is being done to change the circumstance. 

What truly are the inconveniences tormenting Team India? While certain difficulties have been in presence for a long while, certain others have sprung up in the new past. Verifiably, Indian cricketers have been depicted as being lions at home and sheep abroad. This insight changed in the mid 2000's when India posted arrangement wins in the two tests and ODIs on unfamiliar soil against cricketing significant burdens that included Australia, England and South Africa. Nonetheless, the new test arrangement white-washes stand declaration to the way that Indian cricketers have never truly dominated the craft of playing in unfamiliar conditions. 

The significant purpose behind this disappointment is the one-dimensional nature of Indian pitches. Most Indian pitches, being level and ailing in skip, are batsman-accommodating. Any pitches that offer help to bowlers are normally spinner-accommodating. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has never really change the idea of playing surfaces in India. Therefore, players at the homegrown level endure an irritated absence of involvement with batting and bowling on quick and fun tracks. This freshness is incredibly reflected when they play at the global level. Except for Virat Kohli, India's Gen-Next battled against a conventional assault that was a simple shadow of the unbelievable Aussie pace assault of the mid 2000's. Gone are the days when Indian players used to acquire significant openness by playing district cricket in England. Because of the IPL, they presently don't have the motivation to play district cricket. 

The Indian Premier League (IPL) has brought its a lot of intricacies. A batsman who scores a brisk 30 or 40 out of a game is enormously compensated, in T20 cricket, similar to a bowler who can limit the run-rate to 6 or 7 an over. While these procedures may help groups win T-20 internationals, they are not really proper for ODIs and Test matches. The more youthful age of batsmen thought that it was hard to construct innings in England and Australia. It was down to the accomplished Rahul Dravid to rescue some pride for Team India in the Test arrangement against England, while Sachin Tendulkar arose as the most noteworthy scorer in the Test arrangement against Australia. With Dravid declaring his retirement and Sachin moving toward the finish of his profession, the group frantically needs new faces that can adjust to all organizations of the game. Virat Kohli is the solitary such player. Others like Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma and Murali Vijay, notwithstanding having colossal ability, have battled to discover their feet in Test cricket. 

Another huge reason for stress is India's unpracticed and delicate speed assault. The Indian bowlers couldn't protect a score of 289 against a second-rung group like Bangladesh in the Asia Cup. Except for Zaheer Khan, Indian new ball bowlers seldom represent a danger to match batsmen. Consistently, the group has needed to depend on the experience and ability of Zaheer Khan to rescue them of troublesome circumstances. Praveen Kumar and Munaf Patel have shown incidental glimmers of splendor. Players like Ishant Sharma and Irfan Pathan have lost their speed as well as their wicket-taking capacities. Adolescents like Varun Aaron and Vinay Kumar have not had enough freedoms to substantiate themselves at the worldwide level. While Zaheer Khan may keep playing for a few additional years at the worldwide level, his planned substitutions barely move certainty. 

Player burnout is an additional reason for concern. Prior, cricketers used to appreciate a break from the game for a month or two each season. That would give them sufficient opportunity to unwind, recover and get ready for the following season. With the coming of the IPL, cricket is currently being played round the year and players scarcely get any an ideal opportunity to relax. Additionally, excessively numerous matches are crushed in, for no clear explanation. For example, it look bad for India to play an ODI arrangement against England at home, in 2011, following playing exhausting Test and ODI arrangement in England. As of late, the Indian group went right to South Africa to play simply the one T20 global. The players got back after the game just to partake in the IPL inside seven days. Players are basically living in planes and inns. Playing cricket 24×7, and voyaging consistently over huge distances, frequently to nations in various time regions can normally negatively affect players' psychological and actual wellbeing. The new spate of wounds in the Indian camp underscores this reality. These wounds not just deny the group of its best players yet additionally render match techniques incapable. Except if players are given a breather, this problem is probably going to persevere. 

Accordingly, uncommon changes in the way in which Indian cricket is being run and played are called for. Except if such changes are affected critically, the difficulties confronting Indian cricket would just serve to deteriorate the ruinous circumstance the group is at present in.