Mumbai missed the bus
Winning is a habit and in a team game like cricket the players should realise the importance of winning at home and abroad in regular intervals. Mumbai cricket team just like Indian team maintain their home tiger image very well but lose when they go out to play competitive level matches. This is happening for over a decade and the team management failed to arrest the slide in recent times. By changing the captain and the coach the home team is not going to achieve anything extraordinary. The writing is on the wall. Mumbai's Ranji side failed to qualify for the semi-final stage of the Ranji Trophy and the whole set up needs a sea change to come out of the rut. Old warhorses in the side like Wasim Jaffer and Zaheer Khan should pave way for the youngsters to step into their shoes at least from next season. High scoring in school matches is not going to serve the purpose in anyway. H. Shah scores 500 plus score against ordinary bowling but when
they go up the ladder such a big score is not going to help anyway against standard pace attack. Forty time champion should have proper planning to develop the game from the grass root level. Nature of wickets should be fast and bouncy and there is need for improving fast bowling. Team should know how to play both the first innings and the second innings with great tact and talent. Having played for first innings lead most of the time, the players are not up to stand up second innings and face defeat. Instead the focus is on spin and that is not helping in any way in the knock out stage of the Championship. In all it was pathetic show to say the least.
Winning is a habit and in a team game like cricket the players should realise the importance of winning at home and abroad in regular intervals. Mumbai cricket team just like Indian team maintain their home tiger image very well but lose when they go out to play competitive level matches. This is happening for over a decade and the team management failed to arrest the slide in recent times. By changing the captain and the coach the home team is not going to achieve anything extraordinary. The writing is on the wall. Mumbai's Ranji side failed to qualify for the semi-final stage of the Ranji Trophy and the whole set up needs a sea change to come out of the rut. Old warhorses in the side like Wasim Jaffer and Zaheer Khan should pave way for the youngsters to step into their shoes at least from next season. High scoring in school matches is not going to serve the purpose in anyway. H. Shah scores 500 plus score against ordinary bowling but when
they go up the ladder such a big score is not going to help anyway against standard pace attack. Forty time champion should have proper planning to develop the game from the grass root level. Nature of wickets should be fast and bouncy and there is need for improving fast bowling. Team should know how to play both the first innings and the second innings with great tact and talent. Having played for first innings lead most of the time, the players are not up to stand up second innings and face defeat. Instead the focus is on spin and that is not helping in any way in the knock out stage of the Championship. In all it was pathetic show to say the least.
