Getting burnt out or getting bored watching Cricket is not at all the traits that define me. But then these days, the Indian Team has played a lot of games, add to it the IPL, to have burnt out themselves. I’m still wondering why so much has been spoken about MSD trying to put it forth to the board. They should rather take it in a proper sense and look to do whatever it takes to prevent players from getting injured.

Of all the nations, the Indians are known to have the tighest schedule. I understand that they bring in a lot of market value where ever they play. But then you should also know that even they are humans. There’s no point simply blaming them for complaining about a tight schedule. All Dhoni did was, as a Captain of the team, represented the team and put forth their thoughts. It was BCCI who wanted the players to sign the contract for the IPL and I saw one of the officials asking why the players didn’t complain when the IPL was going on.

Obviously cash is one issue. But then, in this case, they were complaining about playing two back to back International Match. I don’t see anything wrong with the players here. The Board should have had the common sense to think of all this and should have charted a better schedule. Moreover I also feel that this is a nice time to build a pool of around 20 – 25 players and implement the rotation policy which I see as the only available solution. There is a world of opportuinity to try this out. It will help is in long term and will also groom the players for the future. Just imagine this. Take Gambhir and Sehwag for example. Both have been going great guns. What if both are injured? Is that what the board wants? It will also hamper their flow specially when their career graphs are hitting a purple patch.

Even I took a break for almost a month now with all that I’ve been writing and I needed a break to get my thoughts back together. When this happens to me, just think of the players specially the quicks. Wake up BCCI and make sure that you don’t land up ending blooming careers pre-maturely. Instead of whining about players not coming forward and requesting to be dropped as they need a break, you guys provide the necessary pool to help them out. Its basic common sense and even Sachin Tendulkar for this matter won’t come forward to ask him let him off to have a break just because he wants one. He was injured and hence needed to stay away. Get that properly guys. He’s not resting, he’s recovering rather. No guesses why the Coach Gary Kirsten supported the Captain on this issue.

Also note this thing guys. There are so many other teams to play with other than Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.