The "big trends" in football and cricket
Going unnoticed in all the hoopla abt World Cup football is the fact that India beat the West Indies in an away cricket test series for the first time in 35 years. Of course, Indian newspapers make it appear like India has won the cricket World Cup, even as the rest of the world remains unimpressed. If you, like me, have less interest in test cricket and even less interest in Indian games with has-beens like the West Indies (no matter that India managed to lose the one-day series to WI), you can be pardoned for not taking notice.
T.N.Ninan, in his inimitably direct style, manages to delineate the "big trend" in Indian cricket using basic statistics about batting and bowling averages. His verdict - there is a vacuum looming for India in both areas of the game. In trying to create a good One-day team, we seem to have built an average Test team. My question - should we regret that? Would a cricket fan lose much if test cricket simply fades away? Read the article in any case, just for the simplicity with which Ninan has conveyed his msg.
An unrelated article on football cautions against the habit of looking for "trends" every time there is a World Cup. As with any other World Cup, the football World Cup is the most important event in the game, but it does not determine or even showcase the "trend". The 32 teams (having such a large number of teams is itself questionable, but as a columnist in the Financial Times said, no FIFA president comes to power promising to reduce the number of WC participants) in the WC are not necessarily the 32 best teams in the world - a quirk caused by the selection procedure and the geographical quota system. Read at least the first part of the article for popular past myths abt the future of the game!
T.N.Ninan, in his inimitably direct style, manages to delineate the "big trend" in Indian cricket using basic statistics about batting and bowling averages. His verdict - there is a vacuum looming for India in both areas of the game. In trying to create a good One-day team, we seem to have built an average Test team. My question - should we regret that? Would a cricket fan lose much if test cricket simply fades away? Read the article in any case, just for the simplicity with which Ninan has conveyed his msg.
An unrelated article on football cautions against the habit of looking for "trends" every time there is a World Cup. As with any other World Cup, the football World Cup is the most important event in the game, but it does not determine or even showcase the "trend". The 32 teams (having such a large number of teams is itself questionable, but as a columnist in the Financial Times said, no FIFA president comes to power promising to reduce the number of WC participants) in the WC are not necessarily the 32 best teams in the world - a quirk caused by the selection procedure and the geographical quota system. Read at least the first part of the article for popular past myths abt the future of the game!
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