Is This the Right Time to Hand Over Legacy to Young Guns?

A thrilling win in the final that too against arch rivalthen 6 runs per over in every third match then
Pakistan and a champion performance in wholewhere is the time to go slow and wait for right ball
tournament are the things which India was missingto hit. ODI's have become more or less bigger
after 1983 world cup and 1985 Benson and Hedgesversion of twenty20 these days.
series when Indian team did the same.5. The biggest problem with these seniors is their
After 24 years Indian team is Champion again thatfielding. We all have seen that a good fielding can
too in the latest version of cricket. A young team ledchange the whole tempo of the game and this was
by a young leader displayed every aspect which arethe biggest factor for Indian teams success in
must for a champion team. Was it batting, bowling,twenty20.
fielding or keeping cool, all was there in Indian team.6. We have now a young captain M S Dhoni for ODI.
These are some of the cricketing aspects whichDhoni led the young team remarkably in T20 but
mostly associated with Australian team.when these seniors will be around he will not feel as
When tournament started nobody was expectingcomfortable as he feels about younger lot.
that Indian team will be the winner because this team7. One of the major factors of Ganguly's success
was full of youngsters, a new captain and the pillar ofwas that he built his team. He roped in young players
Indian cricket Sachin Tendulkar, Saurabh Ganguly,and polished them and we reached the finals of 2003
Rahul Dravid and Zaheer Khan were missing. But theworld cup. Let the same thing happen with Dhoni, let
end result has shown that if you give confidence tohim make his team. We might loose series against
young guns then they are the world's most lethalAustralia, Pakistan but slowly for the 2011 world cup
weapons.a strong team will be there.
Now after this victory questions are raised by the8. Pick these young players when they are in good
public that should the senior trio of Tendulakr, Dravidform like Rohit Sharma, Joginder Sharma, Yusuf
and Ganguly hand over their ODI legacy to thesePathan, Manoj Tiwari, S. badrinath and many more in
young Turks.waiting. Throw them against good teams like
Opinions on this issue are quite visa versa. SomeAustralia and Pakistan and let them know what the
former cricketers feels that twenty20 and ODI are allpressure of big matches is and let them learn to
together different ball game and for ODI you needovercome from it.
experience. Some feels that its right time to give9. Last but not the least, Tendulakar himself has said
responsibly to youngsters.that Indian cricket is now on in safe hands.
We also feel that it's high time for hand overSo we all know that selectors will be forced to
becausechoose these legends for every match and
1. Tendulkar has already shown his intension ofyoungsters will be told to wait, for how long God
retirement from ODI.knows.
2. Dravid too is not keen to continue in 50-50 games.We also know that in test cricket nobody can
3. Ganguly still wants to play but his recentreplace these legends at present and we need them
performances were not suited for the present stylethere but for other form of cricket these legends
of One Day matches where most of the matchesshould come forward and say that let the future of
are high scoring match which means batsman has toomodern cricket be handed over to young players and
consume less balls for more runs.we will continue to serve in the test form. So that
4. Experts says that in 50-50 over match player haspeople will remember not only their contribution to
to play according to the ball but we want to askIndian cricket but their gentle gesture also.
them when teams are scoring on average of more