Though I am not a cricket savvy but still then the way our players performed in the whole 20-20 series, I kept a close watch on all the matches of Indian team. In the final match, I did my half day in my office and watched the match. As a layman, I found them good in all departments. After the match winning ball, one simple story clicked in my mind which I read from net itself that how simple things wroks so well and big things fails so oftenly. We sent a simple team without big names and won the tournament. The simple story matches with this win and the story has two parts:
1. Americans went to the moon and found that ink pen does not wort their due to some gravitational problems. After reaching to earth, they did lot of studies and developed a special pen which can work on moon. For this they spent lot of money and time to develop that pen. Next time they took this pen on moon.
After american, Russians went to the moon and observed the same problems. Next time they took one pencil and that worked on the moon simply.
2. One soap making company was getting complaints from the field that many times the customes gets the empty case of the soap ( no soap inside). For this, one specialist took the project and developed a complicated process to control problem after lot of studies and money investments. At last the number of complains got down.
Another soap making company was suffering from the same problem. In a meeting, one of their workers suggested a very simple method to control the same problem and the method was to put a high speed fan vertically on the line and let all the packed soap pass in front of it. The fan air will move away the empty paking of the soap. Everybody agreed and the problem got solved 100%
The above two stories applies to our cricket team also. In 1983, we sent a simple team headed by a non political capitain Kapil Dev and won the Title. After that, lot of studies, laptops, improted coach, action replays, technical players, big names, public opinions, cheer up by corporates, prayers and what not was tried but every times we failed to lift the trophy.
This time in 2007 also, very simple team headed by a simple lad MS Dhoni and we won the Title.
The moral of the story is that many times simple things works better than the power of money and analysis.
nice messages
Nothing works unless you get the basics right i.e. hard work and dedication. That’’s what got us the T20
correct
nice stories…. yeah very often than not bigger things happen when smaller components are taken care of while even smal things can go wrong if only the bigger picture is borne in mind :)….. applies to life as well…..
I would say, very correct observations. I have exactly somilar view. the moment some people try to take the limelight, the team dynamics change. Flamboyance of the captains makes others feel smaller.
nice post
it is great that we finally won a world level tournament. And yes that too without -the larger than their legends -superstars and super coaches. Yes simple things work- work well. Another lesson- our superstars should now seriously consider hanging up their boots.
there is a good message in your post
that was great, Indian team wining the 1st T-20 WC. the u saw this thing is also correct.simple things worked big. the main thing is that there was less expectations on the team. this made them fell free.but they new there potential and worked up to mark.