The four Indian teams in the fray in this years edition of the Champions Trophy twenty 20 tournament currently underway in South Africa did indeed end up cutting a rather sorry figure and leaving their legions of fans heartbroken and dismayed at their abject surrender; so here go a few pointers or tips to avoid a repeat performance........
# send your team; or rather Indian component of the team minus the international and team India stars to the host country at least a fortnight before the advent or business end of the tournament so that they can acclimatise themselves to the alien surroundings, pitches and playing conditions......
# insist upon having four bowlers or more who deliver thunderbolts at a deadly pace of 140 kmph and more as a apart and parcel of your net bowling component so that your batsmen are not found to be sitting ducks when confronted with raw pace and a ball that's around their throat more often than not.......
# have/organise preparatory camps on relatively pacy and bouncy Indian pitches a la Dharamshala or Mohali if fortnight long preparatory camps in alien conditions dent your finances......
# make sure that two out of the four foreign players that represent your teams are pacers capable of delivering thunderbolts at speeds exceeding 140 kmph and far more in order to give the opposition a taste of it's own medicine......
# get your hapless batsmen to practice on concrete pitches with the ball being hurled at them from a distance of 14 yards in order to give them a semblance of a chance against a ball rearing up around their throats more often than not......
# pay attention to detail and repeat fielding drills till the players in your team have them down pat and coming out of their ears......
# always have a local first class player as part of your team management in order to get the low down on the opposition and evolve game plans that give you that definitive cutting edge......
# be more than willing to put your bodies on the line when on the field as a run saved is a run scored and often the difference between victory and defeat in this fast and furious version of this glorious game......
# loom to play proper cricket shots rather than going in for fancy innovations as a sound technique is always the foundation stone on which a craftsman builds his innings....
# partnerships are the key to success so try and evolve small but highly effective partnerships that boost your ultimate total by a good fifteen to twenty runs in the ultimate analysis......
# the first six overs are the most crucial part of any and every game so utilise them to the maximum possible extent and ensure that you put up a score of between 40 and 45 for the loss of 2 wickets at most at the end of six overs or then ensnare at least three opposing batsmen when it comes to your bowling effort........
# the importance of running between the wickets can never be over emphasised; so do always run the first run hard in order to give yourself a more than even chance of getting a second in case of a misfield.......
The above mentioned tips though hackneyed and oft repeated almost always make the difference between failure and success and therefore the importance of the same can never be undermined...........
# send your team; or rather Indian component of the team minus the international and team India stars to the host country at least a fortnight before the advent or business end of the tournament so that they can acclimatise themselves to the alien surroundings, pitches and playing conditions......
# insist upon having four bowlers or more who deliver thunderbolts at a deadly pace of 140 kmph and more as a apart and parcel of your net bowling component so that your batsmen are not found to be sitting ducks when confronted with raw pace and a ball that's around their throat more often than not.......
# have/organise preparatory camps on relatively pacy and bouncy Indian pitches a la Dharamshala or Mohali if fortnight long preparatory camps in alien conditions dent your finances......
# make sure that two out of the four foreign players that represent your teams are pacers capable of delivering thunderbolts at speeds exceeding 140 kmph and far more in order to give the opposition a taste of it's own medicine......
# get your hapless batsmen to practice on concrete pitches with the ball being hurled at them from a distance of 14 yards in order to give them a semblance of a chance against a ball rearing up around their throats more often than not......
# pay attention to detail and repeat fielding drills till the players in your team have them down pat and coming out of their ears......
# always have a local first class player as part of your team management in order to get the low down on the opposition and evolve game plans that give you that definitive cutting edge......
# be more than willing to put your bodies on the line when on the field as a run saved is a run scored and often the difference between victory and defeat in this fast and furious version of this glorious game......
# loom to play proper cricket shots rather than going in for fancy innovations as a sound technique is always the foundation stone on which a craftsman builds his innings....
# partnerships are the key to success so try and evolve small but highly effective partnerships that boost your ultimate total by a good fifteen to twenty runs in the ultimate analysis......
# the first six overs are the most crucial part of any and every game so utilise them to the maximum possible extent and ensure that you put up a score of between 40 and 45 for the loss of 2 wickets at most at the end of six overs or then ensnare at least three opposing batsmen when it comes to your bowling effort........
# the importance of running between the wickets can never be over emphasised; so do always run the first run hard in order to give yourself a more than even chance of getting a second in case of a misfield.......
The above mentioned tips though hackneyed and oft repeated almost always make the difference between failure and success and therefore the importance of the same can never be undermined...........
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