People who changed the way cricket is played

I have been a very big fan of Cricket in all its form. Cricket is not only a game played with bat and ball but most importantly its played with mind. I have seen so many cricketers struggling hard to make their best but can’t do it, whereas some players have habbit of remaining on top. These are the people who take challenges and win the matches and heart of the people.

You will find example of many such people in game of cricket but here I would like to talk about two people the first one being “John Buchanan” earlier Australian Cricket Coach. He changed the way cricket is played, under his leadership Australia won Three World Cups in a row. Buchanan along with captain Ricky Ponting, led the Australian side to numerous successes, including a world-record 16 consecutive Test match victories and 23 ODI victories in world cup tournaments.

Ricky Ponting has always credited Buchnan for Austalia’s success, in his own words “It’s not easy to make a very good team still strive to better itself and while a fair credit is due to players, much of it should go to John Buchanan. He has really pushed us into trying to better ourselves and that would be one of his long-standing legacy.”(Quoted from Source: http://coachcyrus.wordpress.com/2007/04/29/ricky-ponting-thanks-coach-for-success).

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a name that has changed all that was requied for Indian Cricket team to win a Big Series and under his captainship we have won the ICC Twenty20 World Cup which is a very big victory after a long time. He is an agressive batsman and wicketkeeper of Indian team. Dhoni has scored highest of 183* against Sri Lanka.

He is a powerful hitter of ball, he has also shown matuarity to maintain his cool and play responsible innings whenever required by the team. Due to his aggressive batting, success on field and his personality he has become one of the most marketable cricketers of India.

Since Dhoni is now the captain of Indian Cricket Team, we can surely see a high rising graph of the whole team and we might win the next ODI world cup also.

Salute to these cricketing Legends.