30 September 2009
By Vikram Afzulpurkar
Saurav Ganguly has aptly summed up the hyped-up Indian team's situation today in saying they don't show big-tournament temperament. It's true that most articles in newspapers analyse why or how the world's top or second best ODI team is failing. Otherwise, they're on about what India should do to reach the Number 1 status.
Is this our way of giving us a second chance to be world champions? Really, this excessively company-sponsored rating system and its awards are making our players lax. It's simple that a defending champion is the world's number 1. You do that by winning the World Cup in the 50-over format. The Champions Trophy being played currently is as near to that format as it gets. Of course, threatening its glamour is the 20-20 World Cup now being held at an alarming 1-year gap.
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