Rift within is dangerous for Indian cricket team
There is a rift within the Indian cricket team. This is because the team is on a losing streak. There are people who say that the team's poor performance is due to this deep divide within the team Down Under. Are these people making a mountain out of a molehill? Are these differences the real cause for poor performance?
Last year, the same Team India had won the World Cup, despite purported differences between captain M S Dhoni and his deputy, Virender Sehwag. As long as the team was winning, those differences didn't surface. It's only when the chips were down that all hell broke loose. But the right thing for the Indian team members to do is not to fight among themselves but to focus on improving the on-field performance of players.
We should derive inspiration from the Australian team of the early and mid-2000s. They achieved enviable victories in spite of the fact that they had players who didn't see eye to eye. Their cricketing feats remain legendary to this day. On the contrary, there were teams who had displayed the highest degree of camaraderie and cohesion, yet failed abjectly on the field.
The rift between skipper M S Dhoni and vice-captain Virender Sehwag has proved bad for the team. The two should patch up and maintain team unity. The row could not have come at a worse time for Team India. First of all our tour of Australia was very disappointing. Then we have this factionalism. These two factors are bound to have a negative impact on the overall morale of the squad.
This is not the first time that we are witnessing personality clashes in Team India. The situation was far worse during the dark days of the Sourav Ganguly-Greg Chappell episode. But what we find today is that our senior players are washing dirty linen in public.
Differences in a team do crop up time and again. But it is the job of the team management to handle these issues amicably. Dhoni publicly expressed his concern that the fielding of his team will be affected if Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir and Sehwag were all played together. This expression by Dhoni was not well received in many quarters. It created an uneasy dressing room atmosphere and brought to the surface simmering tensions exacerbated by a frustrating tour. If a player has to perform he should be unburdened by off-field politics. In this particular case, the team management should have lifted a finger to control the damage. It failed to nip the problem in the bud and only allowed the situation to aggravate.
There's clearly a communication gap not only among the players but also between the team and the management. For a team to achieve success, its internal team dynamics is as important as its performance on the field. It should air and settle differences in private, not wash its dirty linens in public.
There is a rift within the Indian cricket team. This is because the team is on a losing streak. There are people who say that the team's poor performance is due to this deep divide within the team Down Under. Are these people making a mountain out of a molehill? Are these differences the real cause for poor performance?
Last year, the same Team India had won the World Cup, despite purported differences between captain M S Dhoni and his deputy, Virender Sehwag. As long as the team was winning, those differences didn't surface. It's only when the chips were down that all hell broke loose. But the right thing for the Indian team members to do is not to fight among themselves but to focus on improving the on-field performance of players.
We should derive inspiration from the Australian team of the early and mid-2000s. They achieved enviable victories in spite of the fact that they had players who didn't see eye to eye. Their cricketing feats remain legendary to this day. On the contrary, there were teams who had displayed the highest degree of camaraderie and cohesion, yet failed abjectly on the field.
The rift between skipper M S Dhoni and vice-captain Virender Sehwag has proved bad for the team. The two should patch up and maintain team unity. The row could not have come at a worse time for Team India. First of all our tour of Australia was very disappointing. Then we have this factionalism. These two factors are bound to have a negative impact on the overall morale of the squad.
This is not the first time that we are witnessing personality clashes in Team India. The situation was far worse during the dark days of the Sourav Ganguly-Greg Chappell episode. But what we find today is that our senior players are washing dirty linen in public.
Differences in a team do crop up time and again. But it is the job of the team management to handle these issues amicably. Dhoni publicly expressed his concern that the fielding of his team will be affected if Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir and Sehwag were all played together. This expression by Dhoni was not well received in many quarters. It created an uneasy dressing room atmosphere and brought to the surface simmering tensions exacerbated by a frustrating tour. If a player has to perform he should be unburdened by off-field politics. In this particular case, the team management should have lifted a finger to control the damage. It failed to nip the problem in the bud and only allowed the situation to aggravate.
There's clearly a communication gap not only among the players but also between the team and the management. For a team to achieve success, its internal team dynamics is as important as its performance on the field. It should air and settle differences in private, not wash its dirty linens in public.
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