2012 went, and now we have a new year to start and most importantly, it’s the Indian Cricket Team who have to start it good, reasons, because they fared very very badly last year. After winning Cricket World Cup in 2011, they have lost Test series in England, Australia, One day series in Bangladesh, and Test Series in India against England to name some, and that too very badly. So they have to start afresh to get back on track. As of now it can be said that the whole Indian team is not in form, and it is facing the big crisis of bowlers. Probably its the weakest side in terms of bowling. We also saw great players like Rahul Dravid, VVs Lakshman and Sachin Tendulkar, the legends taking retirement, and hence we face the dilemma of finding replacements for them, especially in test cricket, but let us see some records with the reference of India.
Source: http://www.espncricinfo.com
Some one day batting records to look at-:
1.Sachin Tendulkar stood at the top of the list of ‘Most Runs in Career’ Record – 18426 Runs which he scored through 49 100s and 96 50s, at an average of 44.83, with S/R of 86.23. the nearest contender to him is Ricky Ponting, who is also retired, and he scores a total of 13704 runs, almost 4500 runs behind him. Nobody looks like touching his record. The currently active player who is nearest to him is Jacques Kallis from South Africa, who has scored 11498 runs till now (approx 7000 runs behind) and he is already 37 years old, don’t know how long can he continue. Right now there are total 4 Indians in the Top 20 list including Sachin, all retired. The active player is at No.21 – Virendra Sehwag with 8242 runs, but with his current form, can he become the record breaker, well he can but he has to show his skills again otherwise no chance.
2.Under the record ‘Most Runs in an innings’ there are 2 Indians holding the top 2 places – Virendra Sehwag (219), and Sachin Tendulkar (200) Other than these 2 positions, Indians hold 7 more positions in Top 20 – 8th Sachin Tendulkar (186), 10th MS Dhoni (183), 11th Saurav Ganguly and Virat Kohli (183), 17th Kapil Dev (175), 19th Sachin and Sehwag (175). Yes, anybody can break this record at any moment, but still what does this depict, 9 places in top 20 to Indians, this depict 2 things – 1. Does Indian cricketers play only for their own records or they play for their team, and 2. If we are so good, then why still we are facing so much problems in playing spin, fast and especially on foreign grounds. We have to learn to play on foreign grounds, because then only we could become the world-class players. Do you know, out of these 9 innings only 2 came on foreign lands (excluding 2 in Dhaka, since its quite similar to Indian condition)
3.Sachin Tendulkar holds 2nd position for ‘Most Runs in a Series’ record too, scoring 673 runs in 11 matches in ICC World Cup 2002-03, with 1 100 and 6 50s, and scored at an average of 61.18. he also holds 13th position, and there is no other Indian in the top 20 list. Do we have a replacement of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar?
4.Sachin Tendulkar also tops ‘Most runs in a calendar year’ list. In the year 1998, he scored 1894 runs with an average of 65.31 scoring 9 100s and 7 50s. And you know what 2nd, 3rd and 4th positions are also hold by Indians – Ganguly, Dravid and Tendulkar again. Other positions Indian cricketers hold are 7th Ganguly, 11th Tendulkar, 13th Virat Kohli, 16th Ganguly, 18th Tendulkar and 19th Ganguly. Except Kolhi, no currently active player starred in top 20 lists. Well, Indian cricket certainly required performers heavily.
5.Last Record for the day – ‘Most Runs in a series by a captain’ and here you’ll find only 1 Indian captain name in the top 20 list, who holds 2 places – 6th and 18th position. Ca you guess that name? it’s easy – the best captain India have – Saurav Ganguly. What does it means? Is there extra pressure put on Indian captain? Yes, obviously, we have seen many cases like this. We have always seen this case that whenever an in-form and good player made the captain, he falters and his career graph goes down. I would say that MS Dhoni is the coolest captain I have ever seen, he doesn’t take pressure or doesn’t shown it, but it also saps the aggressiveness from him, which is very much required now-a-days to remain competitive.
Question of the day?
Whom do you want to see as next captain of Indian Team after MS Dhoni?
My pick – Virat Kohli for T20 and One-day team. Still I don’t have any names for Test Captain post other than MS Dhoni.. Whats your say?
GRuchirG.
Jai Raam ji ki :)
