to sacrifice your own glory, for the team’s cause. Sunil Gavaskar, the little master, once crawled to a score of 36 runs of 174 balls with just a solitary boundary in an ODI run-chase against England in the 1975 World Cup.
He countered the critics by saying that the wicket was difficult to bat on; now that is, in modest terms, some absolute rubbish. Contradicting to Gavaskar’s statements, England on the same pitch, batting first, scored 334, and Deniss Amiss scored 137 off 147 balls. Gavaskar’s inning is often disparaged as a selfish and a submissive approach from the opener.
Cricket is a team game; there should not be an ‘I’ in the team. While individual performances strengthen the position of the team, but not at a cost of the same becoming a liability. It’s even more upsetting when the captain of the team plays an inning for himself putting his team after his own individual glory or asks his teammate to do any heinous act–such as the infamous incident of Greg Chappell asking Trevor Chappell to bowl underarm
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