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| J&K's Ranji team fails again, will JKCA accept blame for defeat? | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 27: Another experiment of illegal Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) has failed and the state team has added another failure to its long list of failures in Ranji Trophy.
Led by ex-New Delhi players and a state subject Mithun Manhas, the team has miserably failed to perform in the round-robin league of the Ranji Trophy for the year 2016-17. Even the experience and hardwork of international player Parvez Rasool has not helped. His stint with IPL has not been of any help to Jammu and Kashmir Cricket team, whose record has not changed at all.
The team has played 7 matches and lost 2 while managing draw in four other matches. The solitary win has come against lowly ranked Goa. J&K has two matches left. One is against Hyderabad and another is against Chhattisgarh. Such is the mental state of the players that the team failed to defeat even Tripura and Services. The two teams gave Jammu and Kashmir a tough fight and ensured that the match ends in a draw.
With just two matches to go and one being against formidable Hyderabad, Jammu and Kashmir is likely to return home with less than 20 points in its kitty from 9 matches. The team is returning home with virtually nothing in hand. But neither will the Captain resign nor the body which has been selecting this team which has been on the losing streak.
No questions would be asked nor will anyone fix the responsibility on those because of whom the team's performance has been dismal. The performance raises serious questions on the competence of the members of JKCA especially the selectors who preferred addressing the festering sore of regionalism over making the selections purely on the basis of merit and efficiency. 8 players from Jammu and 8 from Kashmir has become the norm.
Due to this diseased norm, the selectors are left with little space to operate. But what makes this performance shocking is not the selection from within the state but the manner in which outsiders are drafted into the team with claims of improving the performance and ensuring that the team qualifies for the knock-out stage. Though a state subject and one from Jammu only, Mithun Manhas played his entire cricket for New Delhi and when he was unlikely to be considered to play again for New Delhi, he was drafted by JKCA in Jammu and Kashmir team at the age of 37.
He did nothing exceptional. Same is the story of Puneet Bisht. He too used to play for New Delhi. Records do not indicate that he is the kind of player Jammu and Kashmir needs. They further show that Jammu and Kashmir has developed this habit of bringing in players from outside the state at a time when the requirement is to ensure those playing for the state get adequate infrastructure and playing field so that their performance improves over a period of time.
The selection of team is also done not on the basis of who is performing at the state level and who is not but on the basis of who is playing for whose club and who has the best man supporting him from the now illegal Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA). Puneet Bisht has so far played 7 matches for Jammu and Kashmir. Barring one match, Bisht has neither scored anything exceptional nor in any way helped J&K in scoring a total which could earn the team a respectable draw.
On the other side, the Skipper of the team Mithun Manhas who was straightway drafted into J&K team and made its in-charge has not managed to score a half-century in the matches that he has played for the team since the day he joined his home team. Mithun's highest score has been 36 runs against Rajasthan in Kochi. The players who brought J&K the solitary win against Goa were the same who have been playing for Jammu and Kashmir since the last many years.
Samiullah Beigh, Ram Dayal, Parvez Rasool, Shubham Khajuria and Ian dev Singh have been the ones who have done the state proud. They have been scoring regularly and whenever J&K has won, they have been the ones behind the victory. But JKCA which mostly has businessman and politicians among its ranks has never bothered about the team being one of the lowest ranked and failure in terms of performing exceptionally well in Ranji Trophy. Had talent been the sole criterion, J&K would have by now become one of the strongest sides in Northern India. |
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