COMPLACENCY AND OVER-CONFIDENCE RESULTS TO FAILURES

Rimi: - It’s a shameful day for the Kolkata Knight Riders Team that they have lost the match against the Punjab Kings XI, despite scoring a mammoth total of 200 runs by batting first.

Saswati: - It is only to blame the KKR team players only. After scoring that 200 runs, they thought that they have won the match and this team of Punjab which has lost all the matches in the IPL will not be able to chase this mammoth total.

Deepak: - Yeah, from the very first ball of the over, the KKR players started playing casual cricket.

Bikash: - There were some bad bowling changes made. I don’t know why Ganguly has selected that young left handed bowler. I still doubt why Ganguly is not taking Laxmi Ratan Shukla inside the team, who is a good all-rounder. At least, Laxmi has a fighting spirit.

Saswati: - Who knows? Maybe, there are some ego clashes between Shukla and Ganguly. Another player is Pujara. Why Ganguly favors him too much, I don’t understand. There are two slots in the KKR Team, which always remains weak. There is a deficiency of a good fifth bowler. Both Dinda and Ishant are not performing well. In total, the bowling department is in dilemma, despite having Shane Bond.

Arindam: - Boss, whether you blame it to the batting or bowling or fielding of the KKR team, it hardly matters. In my opinion, KKR has lost this match, due to their mental callousness. I observed their body language when they came to defend that 200 runs. They were feeling as if they have come out to play a charity match. They became serious only after the 11^th over, when Jayewardene was cruising towards the team victory with his innings.

Deepak: - Yes, you are right. Murali Karthik also missed a catch. Manoj Tiwary has done so many misfielding. Somehow, Manoj Tiwary’s attitude has changed after playing two big knocks in the tournament. He has started showing his mental over-confidence like Vinod Kambli used to do, after scoring two successive double centuries in Test Cricket. Manoj needs to calm down and start again from the scratch, if he wants to play a big innings again. Who told Ganguly to experiment with a new left-handed pace bowler, who has never played any international match? Had KKR been able to do some good tight bowling in the initial 6 overs of the match, no matter, how much Jayewardene would have swung his bat, they would have never won the match.

Rimi: - Do you people remember the match between Australia and South Africa, where Australia scored more than 400 runs while batting first and South Africa chased it down. In that match also, Australia was over-confident. There are many other instances like this. Many teams have won matches while chasing a score with their big 8^th or 9^th wicket partnership, because whenever all the top batsmen are back in the pavilion, the bowling team becomes very complacent and that is where they do the blunder.

Bikash: - A champion team or player should never become complacent. A game is not won until the final winning seconds. Look at Roger Federer. He never becomes over-confident. He plays like underdog. He starts from the scratch. In important matches, he will start by losing the first two sets. His opponent now becomes complacent and thinks that one more set is achievable. That is where, Roger Federer steals the show. Roger knows that his opponent will now play callous tennis due to over-confidence. Federer just sails through smoothly to win the last three sets. That is why; he has been able to beat Pete Sampres’s records. A champion player always remember the basic of sports that you are playing the game to have the winning smile at the last of the match, but not in between it.

Arindam: - Absolutely, you are right. Australia rules the world cricket because they never leave a stone unturned, even if they play against the teams like Kenya or Scotland. But, Indian team has a bad tendency of under-estimating their opponent team and lose the match. Many a times, the Kenyan team has beaten India also. Every successful human should always remember that “COMPLACENCY AND OVER-CONFIDENCE RESULTS TO FAILURES”. Basically, these two characteristics are the big basic pillars of failures.