Haphazard views : A snooping psyche dissected

I take great pride in declaring myself as ‘THE BIGGEST SACHIN FAN ALIVE’.

Still, I feel…..

This is not the first time Sachin has let the fans down. In fact, he keeps doing so in most of his outings. One hundred and then a series of single digit scores, then a couple of 20s and 30s and again some single digit scores, finally a hundred again followed by some single digit scores. This has been the kind of cricket he has been playing ever since he has changed his batting style (from aggressive to ‘neither aggresive nor defensive’ mode), post World Cup 2003.
I’m not too sure whose idea it was to have his way of playing changed. But to be
ruthlessly honest, it’s doing no good to Indian cricket. His rate of success and contribution in India’s wins were more significant when he used to play his naturally attacking game.
Everytime someone asks him why he has changed his game, his reply has been : “I have been given a certain role to play by the team management and I’m doing exactly that.”
Is this the role the team management wants you to play? Playing out 21 deliveries for a mere single, that too against an inexperienced bowling attack?

Sourav Ganguly’s weakness with short-balls has been talked and written about a lot.

What about these?

1. How can one who is considered as ‘Bradman-Part II’ by many get bowled through the gap between the bat and the pad so regularly even by mediocre and very very young and inexperienced bowlers ?

2. How can one who has played 132 tests and 365 ODIs chase w—i—-d—–e harmless deliveries outside off-stump and throw away his wicket ?

3. How can one who has spent close to 17 years in the international arena have very very oddly visible weakness to the rising deliveries outside off ?

This is certainly not ‘our Sachin’.

With only 2-3 years (at max) of cricket left in him, unless he reverts to his old way of playing, I don’t see him lasting for too long in ‘Team Chappel’. Even the strong and Pawar-ful Mumbai lobby can’t save him if things go on like this.

PS:
However, I don’t think the Mumbai crowd had overreacted. Had it been his only failure in recent times, the ‘booing’ could have been termed as ‘unfair’. But it was his 7th consecutive failure in tests, after he scored that record-breaking 35th ton against Sri Lanka.
If someoe in a family fails in the same subject again and again, other family members are bound to react in some way or the other. It was just like that.

They love him, they love his game, the expect a lot from him but he has been letting them down quite often these days. Therefore, the reaction was to come at some point of time or the other and it did. Nothing unfair.

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