What Haunts India In Sports And Games?

Recently, we were waiting in front of the Television for three most interesting events in the sports and games arena - Australian Open, South Africa - India Cricket ODIs and Asia Cup Football. As you are aware, all of them ended in sheer disappointment for all those people who wanted to see India climbing the victory podium.

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The results were, Indian duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhoopathy loosing in finals, Cricket team under Dhoni loosing in final ODI and it should be noted that the two matches they won dramatically or with extreme luck and the last ever disappointing football team knocked out of the tournament in the first stage itself.

What haunting India in the Sports and Games arena? After each dismal performance, our governments, either Central Government or State Governments will come out with some kind of statements to increase the facilities or making the sport bodies professional. Unfortunately, none of those statements brought any result until today.

Fitness of the players is very important factor in the sports events. All the top order batsmen failed repeatedly in the ODIs, including Dhoni and Yuvraj and the bowlers lead by Saheer Khan, Harbhajan and Yusaf made some efforts to teach the top order batsmen some lessons of batting. Sachin, Gambhir and Sehwag were out of the ODIs due to their injuries. As a person who was watching all the ODIs closely, it was 5-0 in favour of South Africa and if India got two ODIs in their account only because of luck because except Yusaf Pathan or some bowlers, none of them made any contribution to their victory. Dhoni and Yuvraj continuing their dismal performance and still in the World Cup team. What make them perform so badly, either it is because of the amassed money from all those matches and advertisements? Is it the thinking that even if they do not play for the team anymore, they or their grandchildren can live without any problem for another fifty years? even good performers like Sreesanth kept out of the World Cup squad. Dhoni made some comment about Sreesanth after second ODI and it is doubted that it was a calculated move to keep him out of the team. Many people from different sphere of society responded against his omission from the team. Let us hope that India will be the winners of this World Cup.

From the Tennis ground, it was good news that that Indian Express is back on the rail again. Unfortunately they failed against their contenders in the finals, again the same story of failure at the last minutes. It was shocking to see them repeatedly playing out of the box like beginners. It looked like they drained their full energy. Sania Mirza and Somdev disappointed the 1.2 billion people again, while even a Chinese girl made it to the finals.

As usual, football was again remained an agony for the lovers of that particular sport event. It was after 27 years India qualified for the Asia Cup played in Doha. The Indian boys did some fighting against the mighty Australians, but failed to score a single goal against them. Their fights against other teams were also resulted in expected lines and the supporters of the game who thought it will be the resurrection of Indian football were disappointed again. It was evident during the matches that Indian players are not matching with the teams from other countries in terms of the stamina required for it. It is not a secret that body structure and food playing important role in such events where players with good stamina can perform better. Australians were with good body structures while Japanese, Koreans and Baharain were with good stamina even though their physical strength or body structure was not so good as Australians.

why Indians cannot perform well in the sports and games events? If we listen carefully to the Indian football coach Bob Houghton, we will probably reach in some conclusion that we do not have quality facilities to train the people, while India's neighbor, China, made significant advancement in preparing good infrastructure. Why the governments failed in providing proper sports facilities in their respective States? China's growth visible in all sphere of their life, either in technology or sports, while India remaining as a paper tiger with all kind of corruptions from everywhere.

The other part of the problem is the stamina of the people in the Indian subcontinent. Our food culture is not sufficient to withstand a strenuous event like football where it requires high level of physical workout. I think our approach to non-vegetarian food is the major reason behind our lack of stamina. After eating a good vegetarian food, it is near to impossible for you to participate in such events.

Can the governments to do something to improve the facilities and well being of the sports persons? Should India give more importance to the physical fitness of its citizens, starting from schools? We cannot ignore that a lot of fund is available for it, but it is not utilized for the benefit of it and reaching to the pockets of officials.