ICC Champions Trophy Gets Some Credibility
Quite often you feel that people at the top don’t really deserve to be there. You actually know people who seem to be much better than these 'people at the top'. That’s when you get a feeling that there’s something wrong with the system. Yes, only when the system is wrong can undeserving people be at the top. I had a similar feeling about the ICC Champions Trophy.
The intention of any tournament should be that the best in the business should be rewarded. If this is not happening you are spoiling the entire scheme of things. You are spoiling a sacred game like cricket. Everything around us works that way or is at least supposed to work that way. Right from our childhood we have been rewarded when we have done something better than others or at least the correct way.
Since the inception of the ICC Champions trophy, Australia hadn’t even once won the trophy. And for me this was really surprising. A team that’s way ahead of the rest of world doesn’t win this cup even once! Does this mean that a team that has been virtually unchallenged for over a decade is not capable of winning the trophy? And look at the list of winners; it includes West Indies and India!! These are the most unpredictable teams in terms of performance. When a tournament allows such teams to win you naturally question the credibility of the tournament and it’s format.
Here I don’t want to say that only Australia should win all the tournaments but I don’t see a team that deserves to beat Australia, be a world leader and tell the world ‘look this is the kind of team that deserves to win and not Australia’. And nobody is anywhere near to even catching up with the Aussies.
I feel you don’t have awards/trophies to actually felicitate the deserving people. In fact people who design such tournaments take pride when the awards are won by truly deserving teams. That way they can boast that how correct they had designed the format that brought to light a truly deserving winner. And now ICC should be a proud body since at last a truly deserving team has won their ‘Champions trophy’ and a cameo from Sachin or Lara hasn’t upset it.
(written - 6th Nov' 06)
The intention of any tournament should be that the best in the business should be rewarded. If this is not happening you are spoiling the entire scheme of things. You are spoiling a sacred game like cricket. Everything around us works that way or is at least supposed to work that way. Right from our childhood we have been rewarded when we have done something better than others or at least the correct way.
Since the inception of the ICC Champions trophy, Australia hadn’t even once won the trophy. And for me this was really surprising. A team that’s way ahead of the rest of world doesn’t win this cup even once! Does this mean that a team that has been virtually unchallenged for over a decade is not capable of winning the trophy? And look at the list of winners; it includes West Indies and India!! These are the most unpredictable teams in terms of performance. When a tournament allows such teams to win you naturally question the credibility of the tournament and it’s format.
Here I don’t want to say that only Australia should win all the tournaments but I don’t see a team that deserves to beat Australia, be a world leader and tell the world ‘look this is the kind of team that deserves to win and not Australia’. And nobody is anywhere near to even catching up with the Aussies.
I feel you don’t have awards/trophies to actually felicitate the deserving people. In fact people who design such tournaments take pride when the awards are won by truly deserving teams. That way they can boast that how correct they had designed the format that brought to light a truly deserving winner. And now ICC should be a proud body since at last a truly deserving team has won their ‘Champions trophy’ and a cameo from Sachin or Lara hasn’t upset it.
(written - 6th Nov' 06)
posted by chega at 5:25 am
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