Do-or-die attitude missing in Indian team: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Stuart-Charles-Glyndwr-MacGill-c91433 – Cricket News Update
Former Australian spinner, Stuart MacGill, has blamed the lackluster, laid-back attitude of the Indian team for their recent miserable tour Down Under.
The Men in Blue began the year with a Test series against the Aussies, which they lost 0-4, and followed that up with a below par performance in the Commonwealth Bank series, which saw them winning only 3 of the 8 games they played.
Earlier, former Indian captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunil-Manohar-Gavaskar-c91863, criticized the national team for their non-seriousness on field – he pointed out that the players tended to smile every time they misfielded, or dropped catches, which gave onlookers a strange impression regarding
the psyche of the team.
MacGill is of a similar opinion, saying that the team’s failures have everything to do with their attitude. He critiqued the top players for taking their positions and reputations for granted, and favouring appearances over quality performances.
“The sense of entitlement you get watching the Indians on tour is overwhelming … far from having a do-or-die attitude, they appear to believe winning is secondary to the appearance,” he wrote in his column in the Sydney Morning Herald.
“If you're simply touring the world entertaining fans and driving TV revenue, then you don't belong in a national team,” MacGill added.
He offered the team’s last tri-series match against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Kohli-c2737.
“Throughout the Test series, the high profile, highly paid Indian top order failed to fire,” he said, adding that the mediocre performances of the top order had continued well into the one-day tri-series. “At the SCG last weekend they never looked like competing
and yet in Hobart they produced the fastest 300-plus run-chase on record,” he said, attributing the surprise win to the fiery and defiant attitude of Kohli.
In addition to his spectacular 133 off 86 balls, the young cricketer stated in the post-match press conference that if the team reached the finals, they would play each game as if it were their last.
While they failed to qualify for the series finals, MacGill claimed that if the players had adopted the attitude the 23-year-old Kohli exuded at the beginning of the series, they definitely would have. He praised the younger batsmen for their competitiveness,
saying they had the fight which was clearly lacking in the elder, more experienced players on the squad.
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