Indian media puts huge pressure on Indian players: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319
Pakistan’s World Cup winning captain Imran Khan feels that the pressure Indian media has put on the Indian team could have a huge effect on their performance.
“I must say that the Indian media puts huge pressure on the Indian players. It's difficult for them to play freely,” Khan said on Thursday.
Talking about the batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar, who in all probability will be playing his last World Cup in 2011, the all-time great of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 said that he will be one Indian player under extreme pressure due the expectations the
team and the nation has attached with him.
“I can understand the kind of pressure that Sachin Tendulkar goes through, its unimaginable,” said the cricketer-turned-politician who had led Pakistan to their solitary World Cup title in 1992. “Everytime, I watch something on television,
I feel that Sachin must be needing tranquilizers with the kind of expectations that's there.”
Imran is credited for unearthing special talents like the legendary pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wasim-Akram-c96292 and great batsman Inzamam-ul Haq. The former skipper said that his judgment was based on “passion to play for country.”
Ranked as number two in the ICC ODI rankings, India are reckoned as the hot favourites to lift the coveted trophy. The side played two warm-up games against defending champions http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 in the lead-up to the mega event and
won both of them convincingly.
The Dhoni-led side landed in Dhaka under high security for the ICC World Cup 2011 opener against co-hosts http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747.
Police personnel in two vehicles escorted the bus of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 team to the Sheraton Hotel from Hazrat Shah Jalal airport.
The opening ceremony of the International Cricket Council’s flagship event will be held at the Bangabandhu Stadium on Thursday while the opening match between India and Bangladesh will be played at the Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
on Saturday, 19 February.
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