The Curious Case of Indian Batsmen!

Not until too long ago, the Indian Test Team boasted of arguably the world's best batting lineup with the likes of Sehwag, Gambhir, Dravid, Tendulkar & Laxman expected to be good enough anywhere against any bowling attack. Much to the chagrin of the fans of this star studded batting unit all it took was a difficult than expected West Indies tour and more significantly flustering tour of England to come to terms with reality which mirrored the needless rodomontading of their performances at home resulting in heightened expectations from them on tours outside the sub-continent.

The legacies of the Goliaths need to be preserved!

It's important that a batsman is technically sound to be able to adapt better in England, Australia or anywhere else in the world where the wickets are conducive for adept swing bowlers. Barring Dravid, Tendulkar and Laxman the required competency seems far from present in the current Indian batsmen who have all but looked at ease in bowler friendly conditions. Safely ensconced in the overdependence on the stalwarts have been their technical incompetency for all these years and as we get closer to a transition similar to the one Australia is going through, the big picture looks only darker.

Sure, when it comes to records each one of those batsmen have quite a few to their name but then records alone don't represent the true picture and definitely don't win matches. The results speak for themselves, only in 3 out of the last 18 innings outside India have the batsmen managed to post 300.

For years we have mourned over the dead pitches and never witnessed a Test series in India where batsmen have had to be distinctively technically skilled to pile runs. This is where the crux of the issue is! The focus here is more on amassing runs rather than the manner in which to score them. This leads to records being made by the batsmen at the expense of sometimes the sheer basics of batting which comes in their way of thorough adaptation overseas. 

If the legacies of the BIG 3 of Indian Cricket have to be kept intact, a roadmap needs to be charted out to groom the plethora of talented batsmen.