After the sound thrashing in England and now an encore in Australia, I naturally started thinking about what would a consultant do if he were allowed to run Indian cricket?
The best thing to do would be to establish a system of churning out players who can play well overseas. Well, it may be easier to end corruption in India than to achieve this!! So why not turn the tables?
Here is what can be done:
1. Don't play overseas: There is a LOT more money to be made playing in India (more attendance in stadiums, higher sponsorship rates, more ads, etc.) than overseas. So why have many / long overseas tours? Just play in India!
2. Improve perception: There is nothing wrong about winning in your own backyard. Look at England who won comprehensively in England and then lost comprehensively in India! Improve people's perception that it does not matter where you win – as long as you win!
3. Invite everyone else to play in India: Given the amount of money to be made playing with India this should be easy - all cricket boards will want to play with India, and since India will not play overseas - they will be forced to play in India.
4. Ensure India wins local matches: Given the pitches we have and the spinners and sloggers in our team - this should be easy.
After losing a couple of big series in India the other boards will start making flat / turning tracks in their countries to help train their teams. Once this happens we can start touring overseas again!!!
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