CONFIDENCE is SUCCESS

boka · #1 March 10, 2012, 11:12 PM

So far from various newspaper report it is clear our players are a group of losers.
Like a looser they already know (even before start of the tournament) that they don't have any chance in Asia-cup
They are planning to give a try to win a single match if they could....!!!!

In anywhere anystep of once life if anyone or anygroup of people have this mentality it is impossible for them to make the difference.

Even before start a journey if one know one will fail question is what the point of go for that journey ?

Wonder why our players and team think tank going back 10 years in time and focusing for “Honorable defeats” ? Btw, a defeat is a defeat.....

Don't any of them find it weird to say their goal is to win a single match in a tournament where as compare to other three countries they are getting almost same facilities !!!

Wonder does Virat Kohli will think that he will not be able to smash Malinga brutally cause Malinga is more experienced than him?

Does Chandimal will bat against Irfan Pathan or Shakib or Razzak thinking like a looser even though they played three times more games than him ??!!!

I think all of us know the answers of those questions -- they never will respect a name that highly that may start create problem in their mindset.

Now let us check what we have in our current group of players compare to that of others in Asia Cup 2012:

BD

SL

PK

IN

Bowling wise top three performers[ODI played] (
Average-Economy-Strike rate):

Razzak [129]
28.21 – 4.50 – 37.50

Shakib [122]
28.68-4.26-40.30

Masrafe [120]
30.86-4.67-39.60

Malinga [115]
25.96-5.08-30.60

Kulasekara [114]
34.10-4.66-43.80

Mathews [71]
33.64-4.68-43.00

Afridi [338]
33.18-4.60-43.20

Gul [102]
27.64-5.06-32.70

Ajmal [60]
24.48-4.14-35.40

Irfan [112]
29.81-5.24-34.00

Praveen [65]
36.02-5.05-42.70

Ashwin [32]
29.56-4.78-37.00

Don't know how many of us are aware of the above statistics. It is clear experience and performance wise our bowling attack is better than India and Sri Lanka in this tournament. Pakistan is also not far ahead.

Our fourth bowler without thinking twice should be Elias Sunny, because we have to understand our strength, we are producing finest SLA bowlers and let us play with our strength.

Regarding the second pacer it should be either Shafiul or Nazmul, acording to the stats Nazmul is consistent with all opponents and Shafiul is horrible against India. But to me as Shafiul not doing that bad in last few series, I think he should continue.

Now let us check where our batters are, here we are listing top six:

	BD	SL	PK	IN
Player Name Games played-Average-Strike rate	Tamim 109 – 28.84 – 79.04	Mahela 370 – 33.54 – 77.87	Hafeez 95 – 26.24 – 68.30	Sachin 460 – 44.74 – 86.29
	Imrul 48 – 27.97 - 65.16	Dilshan 235 – 35.60 – 86.78	Umar Akmal 58 – 38.04 – 84.16	Gambhir 131 – 40.58 – 86.29
	Jahurul 06 – 31.20 - 73.58	Sangakkara 322 – 38.11 – 75.78	Asad Shafiq 28 – 30.64 – 69.82	Kohli 82 – 47.54 – 84.87
	Mushfiq 104-25.47-65.53	Chandimal 33 – 41.15 – 77.81	Younis 237 – 32.91 – 75.58	Rohit 77 – 33.14 – 78.77
	Shakib 122 – 34.67 – 76.51	Thrimanne 15 – 28.18 – 81.15	Misbah 94 – 42.31 – 75.20	Raina 143 – 34.32 – 91.74
	Mahmudullah 76 - 30.53 - 69.01	Mathews 71 – 32.88 – 82.59	Afridi 338 – 23.72 – 113.91	Dhoni 203 – 51.16 – 87.69

We clearly could understand where our weak link is, our batters are underperformed and to compete in international level and getting respect of others we must improve this situation. Effort needed to be taken to improve our current group of players by giving them opportunity to have a batting mentor, it could be someone like Barry Richards or Sir Viv Richards. For long term we must start 2/3 days school cricket tournament.

But for this tournament our team shouldn't get hapless rather they must inspire themselves by looking at the stats of Sri Lanka team. Over the years they never had batters with prolific batting average but because they have the CONFIDENCE and POSITIVE ATTITUDE they overcome this shortage by playing as an unit. Even a 300+ score one could chase down successfully with two fifties, if all others contribute atleast near or around their average.

Thing that is most important to have a successful life is confidence, CONFIDENCE is SUCCESS this we should communicate with our players our team management. Nothing is impossible to a group of fearless confident mind.

Waiting to see a confident team in the field, who only play for win never think anything else, respect opponent but not disrespect themselves.........