Dear Mr. Owner of the Team, let me first say that I'm a fan of yours. Ever since DDLJ, you are for me the king of romance and though there were times when people thought that you couldn't do anything else rather than sing and dance around with starlets and sacrifice the love of your life for your best friend, you awed us with Swades! So when I say you know zip about cricket I mean it in the most polite and revered way. Next time you ask any revered cricketer like Mr.Sunil Manohar Gavaskar to buy his own cricket team and do what he wants I would like to remind you that you have bought a cricket team and not cricket. And certainly not the license to become the saviour of T20 cricket.
I agree there was a time when it was said about One day cricket that it was doomed to fail. White became coloured and red became white. But why did it succeed? Coz the essence remained same. It was still cricket which was played with a bat and a ball. And for hundred years now it has been the same essence. So tomorrow if someone comes and says let's get rid of the bat and use a tennis racquet, I hope you will have the sanity to comprehend that cricket would become nothing but an extended arm of tennis. Sounds ridiculous? Well...much in the same way as a certain "strategy" put forward by a certain "coach".
Let me paint a little picture. A captain on a cricket field goes to the bowler and asks what his plan is for that over and kinda field setting he wants. A captain on a field goes to the wicketkeeper who has a bird's eye view of the entire field as well as the batters foot movement and asks his opinion on what delivery the bowler should ball next. If the captain is not the senior most player in the team he goes to the senior most player and asks his opinion in a particular point of time in the match.
Now according to math principles, I think there are four players on the field that have a direct effect on the strategy. Uh Oh! Mr. "Coach" I think your "new" strategy is leaked...Oh! and it's been leaked for maybe fifty years or so. Maybe you missed that sitting cooped up in the dressing room of your national cricket side.
A captain of a side should be one, that's why the word is captain. A captain of a ship is one that's why he is called the captain. I doubt if any captain of a national cricket side can afford to circumvent the picture I just painted above. So to call a press conference and declare that there will be four captains and that it is a new strategy only brings up the question what the motive behind it was? I smell only spite for one particular captain.
The next time Mr.Owner of the Team you decide that you know what a strategy is or hurt (in a condescending) manner the sentiments of the Indian people you better go over it in your head as to what should come out of your mouth and who it is affecting!
