The Evangelist

Sports have been making real great news since past one year. Be it Commonwealth games or Cricket or any other thru their respective sports associations. CWG once again hogged the limelight with all its justified massively escalated expenditures, featuring exceptionally talented personalities who have extensive experience in playing the game. Yoga and walking is also considered sports by few!! Well it’s about playing game to ones advantage and to win, for country/state/club or self. Facts show that priority is in reverse order, that perhaps stops at first point itself. Let’s analyze cwg & cricket recently unearthed equations in positivity. Games of high magnitude were hosted after 2.8 decades and one cannot predict when would be the next honour to host international multi-game event. So, by living in the moment, chance pe dance maar le. For personal luxuries India has supply of public money in abundance. While in cricket even if thoughts are fabricated thru commentators it’s ...

Lord’s. A special turf for every cricketer. On this ground, it’s not just victory but about HISTORY. Well, records are meant to be broken & history gets recreated. For this, most important is Preparation. Some good cricket had been played over past few days and with some men taking charge from forefront. Yet the control was & is with England, because they were looking well prepared. Consistency, systematic approach and a back-up plan were visible on the field, thus performance. As far as Team India is concerned, is there lack of motivation or individual performance surpassing team work? Or brand of the Ball making all the difference, I doubt!! Probably, the way product life cycle behaves, downswing has come!! Means innovative approach required as past glory is already history. Whatever it may “actually” be, it needs to be tackled, urgently.   Not long ago, when Kumble, Ganguly retired, with cricket still left in them irrespective of “hyped” age factor. Assumptions on...