Sachin???

I read somewhere just a couple of days ago: Whenever an organization performs bad, we naturally assume that the leadership, people, and the culture of the organization is rotten. And whenever it shows some signs of improvement we conclude otherwise.

The above is natural, but good decision making means that you gotta have the facts in front of you. The obvious question that Indian cricket fans are asking is whether to retain Sachin? The question arises due to a common conception in the masses that he does not deliver. Well I am going to put the statistics right in front of you, so that even though we cannot really influence the decision, we can all express a well informed opinion:

Here are Sachin's statistics in 2006
Matches: 16. Innings:16, Runs 628, out of which he has been not out twice,
Highest score: 141 not out,
Average:44.85, at a strike rate of 77.05,
Two half centuries and 3 centuries!

That is a very good record! Comparing it with the highest averages in 2006 we see that Sachin is very much at the top considering the number of innings he has played. Now lets look at his career averages: Sachin has played 374 innings scoring a huge 14847 runs at an average of 44.05 and a strike rate of 85.73.

Notice something? His average has not changed in the last year compared to his overall average, indicating that he could not have suffered the great loss in quality and capacity as the media portrays. Sachin remains one of the highest scoring and highest averaging batsmen in the world.

The only reason why he is the target of amazing bashing is due to the addiction of cricket that India has! We simply don't get to see enough of Sachin, so we expect him to perform in every single match that he plays! What we need is to watch him play more on home grounds, like I said before, its time for the corporate giants to look at Ranji to get the big bucks in cricket rolling.

Interesting parallels to the concept of promoting internal sporting competition would be the Australian club cricket, British County cricket, US NFL, NBA, British Soccer League, and Aussie rules Football.