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Naresh Kumar Sevak (NK Sanatan)
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A Serious Remark Of A Test Great IsWoeful!

A Serious Remark Of A Test Great Is Woeful! ( Rahul Dravid a Test batting maestro’s comment to have present strike rate of scoring and his fear not survive his place in the team as a batsman. )I refute the remark of Rahul Dravid who reveals a fearsome reaction in a talk with Sanjay Manjrekar under ESPN. Rahul Dravid says if he would be in the present day cricket action then it would be difficult to survive his place in the squad. He expresses particular worry about the batting strike rate.But it’s the matter only for the slot of the F50 and T20 formats. For the Test cricket the strike rate isn’t problem and never remained problem and no batsman has fired or neglected or scolded by the administration or selectors . In the Test cricket surviving wicket is the first challenge and needs to set in the crease . As a batsman if you want to be the horse of a long race , first of all you need to survive your wicket . To make run the batsman need to present or stay on the crease. In cricket it is goodness or grace that the batsmen such as the bowlers get chances.But it is not easy to create chance for the bowler again if the batsman makes mistake and the catch is dropped by the fielder or the bowler himself in the follow through. Though the bowler bowls and bowls and makes efforts but it is not easy to create out chance again. Yeah the terrific and genuine stingy bowlers can do it twice soon by their great spirited efforts. We know to make a whole team out the bowlers need just 10 deliveries but it is the toughest task to send out batsman to the pavilion . Such as the batsman ball by ball think to get run . The bowler gets chance after chance because he has 6 ball to deliver in an over. So both or thrice I mean the fielder too get chance if he has missed out the catch or missing the fielding. Yeah talk about the R Dravid’s fear to have strike rate and tougher to make place in the team . He was the most defensive batsman and had the class in his batting and he was known for his solid stability on the wicket. For his compact batting the fans called him Mr Rock, Mr defendable, mr Reliable, etc. He was a classical batsman and you can hear music in his batting. So styled or textual copybook strokes he had in his strength and used to play all gently. He was fundamentally a genuine Test batsman. Why he expresses the fear to have strike rate. Mind the fact that you are playing the Test match not a oneday or T20 game. There in the Test match you need to play for the nation and its win and in this regard no question of batting rate at all. Yeah with the demand of the match situations you need to increase the batting. But on the name of the Test match isn’t the Test match. Why……. because there are limitations. Yes first of all the time limit that is only 5 days. And per day 90 overs. Shit …Why the five days…. while it is the Test match ….It should be timeless. Though the global administrative body has experiment it but later refuted due to the spectators’ point of view. When there is the Test no time limit and no other limits. Everything must be transparent . The Test should not be played for the viewers or watchers . Yeah not for money making but to have real combat . To pay the players their should be the government budget . To play for the nation is service not the profession. Such as alas service in army a profession but in real it is not the service but a great service. Though for livelihood the man needs money but they should be paid on the name of service not as the professional person. We see the sports and games are money game rather than the real game. When the game is played for the money then it isn’t remained the real game. In Ranji Trophy there is no fee or ticket to watch the game so that is the real game.So if you say it the Test then shouldn’t be time limit and so no question of strike fear. In strike rate spirit the batsman loses out his wicket soon or quickly. And in the strike rate mentality the batsman loses out his real class. So I sum up my query if the Test matches are followed to have timeless format then no fear of strike rate and the spectators of real kind could enjoy real and classy cricket and without facing unwanting pressure that affect your style and game.So I reject the idea of Rahul Dravid in the Test Match concerned . Yeah ODIs and T20 do require the strike rate because these are the limited overs formats.To see the nature of R Dravid’s game shouldn’t include in instance cricket but he played 10y ODIs but see C Pujara hasn’t got inclusion in these short formats because he is Test specialist batsman. And as I said in a cry there should be the different teams for each format. And separate player who couldn’t play other format . I mean they could choose only one specific format as a specialist. If there is the timeless Test Match and batsman bats for 4 days having 20 strike rate what is wrong to it . In 4 days he could have scored 240 plus runs and still on the wicket and challenge for the rival to get him out or send pavilion.Instead the real cricket and its formats the ICC prefers IPL like shallow unauthorized tournament …. why …only because of money game..It’s not fair for the game. If traditional and fundamental rooted format isn’t preferred by the ICC and BCC and other boards then it’s not good for the game. The World cricket is a big evident who have seen huge number of spectators in the stadium to watch the Test Match. And the time wasn’t problem . Yeah the fans were in full leisure to enjoy the game for the five days.But okay with time we need to accept these new formats . And ridiculously we are hearing that the T10 format is ready to introduce…. and it is happened then F5 and then Z0, I mean zero zero.Yeah as the gist i do say that ICC must have to prefer the Test cricket. After the World Cup 1983 india gradually became the power and ICC knelt down before BCCI because of money. You know the BCCI is one of the richest boards. And the riches gain all themselves and they too all relatives erstwhile in this and that way. So it is cleared that the money is the most powerful weapon as well as resource or medium in the World. And such truth has happened with the BCCI. For the first time an outsider I mean apart from England the indian administrator Jagmohan Dalmia became the ICC’s boss . And for the years BCCI is the axis of the Cricket. And so IPL like tourney as terrorist intruded or ushered in cricket arena and have dininished the conservative form of cricket yeah the Test Match . And alas not only for money making but amassing money. We know people go (mind not the fans) in the stadium not to watch the game ,yes they throng their to enjoy the atmosphere , to get highlight on the TV screen and to see the cricketers not their game. We know in the past the fans didn’t push their eye sights from the action or the game of the players while in present there is no such height of the fan’s attention. But in the own nation’s game against rival this thing is at another height . No fan drains his eyes and dazed with close look. Why because it is matter of the nation and there the patriotism itself speaks. So different team for the Test match and it should be one way. So the real tactics and height of the traditional game would be alive to have rhythmic music of classicism. And to the Test players the board must pay highly than the players of two rested forms F50 and T20. And due have this norm we couldn’t lose out the Test great or specialist batsman like Cheteshwar Pujara. Pujara to have Test status not preferred by the franchises. And money point of view he seems behind or in loss because IPL and in the short forms the cricketers earn bigger money .*NK Sevak “Sanatan”