Stratergies of the teams in DLF Cup
West Indies with two wins in the series are already through to the final. Australia did not field their key players stating a rotation policy and lost to West Indies so that they could play them in the final. That’s the Australian Strategy.
At the start of 5th ODI, West Indies vs. India, Lara sits down for a quick team strategy with his Coach.
Lara : These idiotic Ausies lost to us hoping that they will play us in the finals instead of India.
Coach: This is where we need to cash in. What if we lose to India today and India comes to the final.
Lara : Cool.. That is a nice plan and if India somehow wins against Ausies then we can beat them in the final as they never will win a final. Whole world knows this.
Coach : Excellent.
The coach instructs the bowlers to give away lots of runs so that they can lose. To everyone’s surprise, Indians keep losing wickets and get all out for a paltry 161 runs.
In the dressing room Lara and the Coach were completely shocked and do not know what to do now. Gayle comes up to them and says we still have some hope. Let me not go on and open the innings, in that case we will win the game in the first 15 overs. Let us get all out and lose the game.
Lara is very relieved with the plan and sends his guys into bat. To his disappointment, the first time opening pair puts up 40 without any loss of wickets.
At the session break, Chanderpaul tells Lara lets all get out irrespective of what the Indians do, the Indians does not even know to act as if they are putting up a brilliant fight back. As agreed the West Indian batsmen gets out one by one and both Lara and Gayle decide to sit back so that this time the Indians do not screw up their plans. Finally, the Indians manage to win the game by 16 runs.
At the end of the game, Lara gets a chance to speak with Dravid without being noticed by anyone.
Lara: aree Valu…… you guys should have beaten us with a bonus point. Why did you guys mess up with the chance…
(Dravid very upset with Lara explains)
Dravid : You guys have screwed all my happiness. Before this game, Chappell and I came up with a team strategy. Chappell said let us make it plain and simple. We are losing against the West Indies so that we will not make it to the finals. Otherwise, we have to fight hard in the next game against Australia, which by default we are going to lose. I readily agreed and the meeting lasted for about 30 seconds. And you guys lost and have put us in a horrible position. Now we have to act and fight in the next game as if we are putting in all our efforts to win the game. You know how hard we tried not to make your team all out for 129 so that we wont have the bonus point..
(Lara is stunned with the Indian team strategy)
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