Iqbal...

aashaayen khile dil ki...
ummeedein hase dil ki..
ab mushkil nahi kutch bhi ...nahi kutch bhi

kutch paane ki ho aas aas
kutch armaan ho jo khaas khaas
har koshish mein ho waar waar
kare dariyao ko aar paar
toofano ko chir ke manzilo ko chin le
aashayeen khile dil ki.....


ok. i dont live in some God Forbidden land with only Doooordrashan. but yesterday was the first time i heard this song. and saw the movie. actually the song has to be good. becuase KK sang it. after a looooooooooooooonnnnnggggggggg time i saw one good movie yesterday. such a nice movie.

and i have observed that every blog contains two posts... for sure... one on cricket and one on marriage.
today is my cricket post day.

after seeing the movie, i felt that almost all our cricket team is full of Iqbal's. Zaheer Khan, Dhoni, Md Kaif, etc, etc are a few examples. but then all our selectors and the so called current "coach" are exactly the same as the character of Girsh Karnad in the movie.

The India VS West Indies fourth one day was a beautiful proof for that. the team work was nil. zero.3 minus 5. all of them played because they had to play. thats it. no team work. some how i feel the "coach" is to blamed for all that. i feel that the players are losing the teamspirit. ok. agreed that cricket is no as much as a team game as football.

i am no Ganguly fan. but he does deserve some credit. he was not a bad captain either. Sachin was much worse as a captain (Sachin is my favourite cricket player).

but the very fact that the "coach" behaved so unprofessionally on the issue related to Ganguly, shows that he doesnt have what it takes to train, motivate and encourage a team. no matter how bad the captain is, his removal from the team would lead to an all round loss of confidence and morale. same case any where. the fall of a leader (no matter how good or bad he is) always is a huge demotivating factor. it should have been handled with a looooootttt of delicacy. every one has their ups and downs in life. that doesnt mean that the "coach" should broadcast about the team member's personal problems.

i hate the Indian cricket "coach". he is bad as a motivator, he is bad as a trainer. the only thing he is good in is to get involved in unnecessary controversies. and get the whole team invovled.
and our team has not performed any better after his taking over as the "coach".
unless the environment in the team is good, there would be absolutely no progress. may be its time for the "coach" to just quit.