Former Indian & Bengal Cricketer Ashok Malhotra Lashes out at the PWI Management in his Column in ABP Today.
Last year, we heard so many things about Ganguly's PWI. Things like he couldn't lead his team properly,couldn't play like a unit which ruined team's performance. This year with Ganguly not in line-up, people said PWI have a great Team & a Great Chance this year. Got fed up of hearing all these. I want to see the faces of all those, who told such things recently. Ganguly is not part/related to your team in any form, so what is your result this year? 12 losses out of 14. With PWI losing yesterday to MI, it has recorded their 9th consecutive loss. You can't restrict Mumbai after you have posted only 112. MI has qualified for the play offs winning the match by 5 wickets.
My humble question to the PWI management, if your team is so bad with low profile cricketers whom you bought in the auction, no captain can do anything. In Ganguly's regime atleast, they had proper planning for every matches, irrespective of the result of the game. He tried to lead a very mediocre team from the front. That is absent this year. Can u tell me, on what grounds a player like Kane Richardson was bought for a huge amount of 4 crores at the auctions ?. how can Alland Donald be a full time coach, who doesn't have any records of being a full time coach ? Why a spinner like Mendis being made to sit out even on a spinning track ? I dont think PWI management have any answer to these Questions.
There is a wrong belief that a good team can be made if lakhs and lakhs of rupees can be spent in the auctions. if that is the case then teams like RR and SRH wouldn't have won any matches. Believe me, now i get frustrated when i see PWI matches. PWI have uthappa for power-play overs, but in t20 the 15-20 overs are very crucial as more runs come from those overs. i think PWI management has forgot this fact. uthappa, finch, mathews, steve smith are all players of same style. My question is if you have the power to spend money, then why wouldn't you bring a player like AB devilliers in your team. if MI could why you couldn't you buy Rohit Sharma. They have money, but they cant find a player who can score quick as well as big runs.
You have a 37 man team, 16 of them are foreigners and you still cant find a good foreign pacer. Pace attack is only dependent on Dinda & Bhuvi.
I want to say about captaincy too. 3 captains in this season is unbelievable and ridiculous. Today mathews, tomorrow taylor and day after tomorrow finch. There's nothing called 'Nucleus' in this team and if their are much problems regarding captaincy, why wasn't yuvraj made the captain for whole season ? I heard that he didn't want to take the job of captaincy. Has the PWI management talked to yuvraj regarding this issue? All these questions will remain unanswered.
Translated By : Shrayan
Edited By : Goutham
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