I always wonder why should a player as flamboyant as Sachin, curbs all his natural instincts/talents just cause he wants to score more runs/want his team to win (rarely).
Questions which immediately comes to my mind are:
a. Is winning more important than being honest to the talent/skill ?
b. Is scoring more runs important than being honest to the talent/skill ?
c. Will Bradman/Richards also stifle all their strokes just for the heck of scoring safe runs ?
d. Why is he so scared of playing those glorious drives in the cover-point, straight ? And instead pockets those safe runs in third man and fine leg region. He really has to think he is Sachin and not Chanderpaul or Jimmy Adams or Justin Langer or Graham Thorpe.
There are folks who say Sachin is playing these drab innings because of:
a. The pressure factor - which does not give him too much liberty to play his natural innings :
Hmm.. I think it is important one does justice to his natural talent and be honest to himself, rather than claim that he is playing for "others".
b. It takes great courage to curb one's instincts:
Hmm.. this is equivalent to cheating oneself.
Why do you care - it is Sachin's own decision to play positively/negatively ?
Agreed, it shouldn't exactly bother me. Sachin has all the liberty to change his style/improvise whenever he wants and whenever he wishes. But, I think Sachin might never re-capture the imagination of many cricket-watchers, thanks to his negative instincts.
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Sachin = GOD!! How dare you question him?!!!
Just kidding.. One possibility is the effect aggressive play has on his body.I'm pretty sure he has had to adjust his strokes just as bowlers have been forced to adjust their action to avoid injuries.
That said, you can argue he could retire from the game, but he continues to be effective in terms of scoring runs... still delights me with his modified stroke play!
dude...looks like your post was designed to avoid comments from people like me by asking and answering all the questions yourself...pretty defensive and after this "/want his team to win (rarely)."...me now thinking this post has no class...:)
i would have agreed with you a year or 2 before. but i think in recent times more often he is showing glimpses of the sachin of old. and also one has to think he has been playing for 20 yrs. that must have taken a toll on his body .. that too with the amount of cricket india play. not defending sachin in anyway. i dont think viv richards changed his style throughout his career. the slow scoring of sachin may have been self inflicted due to injuries, pressure .. whatever.. pity him poor guy.. everyone observes him microscopically and has advice for him..
I didn't understand the post, but the title itself is enough for me to launch a protest!! :)
- Ananth
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