As Indian
cricket team cheers itself on its sweeping four test victory over Australia for
the Border-Gavaskar trophy , questions
ponder as to whether it was the much acclaimed captaincy of MS Dhoni or the
sheer performance of the new comers which yielded result. Leadership is always
admired in all team achievements, but it was indeed the splendid performance of
youngsters
like R Aswin, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Shikhar Diwan and Ravindra
Jadeja , which eventually resulted in this whitewash win for India. It is quite
ironical to note that, whenever there is a victory there is always a successful
leader but the same does not hold true in all cases of failure particularly in
Indian cricket. Leadership judgements always have key words like tactical
errors, or middle order failures to point fingers.
It is now time
that the cricket savaged media in India give due credence to these new kids on
the pitch than being pen pushers to Dhoni and Sachin. With a four test victory
the media’s romance with Dhoni is justifiable but not to the halalullas they still sing for the ‘’God
of cricket’’ who could hardly get double digit scores this
season. It is still not late for the God to realize that a respectful
retirement from Test cricket a la what he did for his One Day matches , will keep him intact in the annuls
of History and with hopes of a Bharatratna
kept alive .
There may be
reasons for the media, the PR Managers and the endorsement gurus to tell us the
God story, but it is time now for the God himself to move on by giving his baton respectfully to
the new Kids who made India proud..
