Of late how many injuries for the cricketers of team India is increasing rapidly. In recent past there were cases when player(s) had opted on foreign tour hiding his [their] injury, which turned up only throughout play. This had had placed the c's in some precarious position dealing with the tour some times necessitating SOS calls for replacement from your own home.

Players know very well that they will only aggravate some nagging pain or recurring injury, when they don’t allow it proper rest. Fortunately they are very well alert to the fact that they'll peril their particular playing life if they continue the game with the persisting injury. Why do then that Indian cricketers hide their injury and go ahead and take risk of playing for the national team? Could it be sheer passion for the game or burning patriotism, which push these to undertake such risk? Perhaps non! Perhaps it does not take lure of lucre. Perhaps it’s driving a car of losing one’s position inside the team.

Today everyone should know that lots of money is linked to international cricket and playing for the national team not merely enables the cricketers get heavy pay packet from your BCCI but a place in the national side also ensures advertisement contracts involving astronomical amounts when it comes to money. Almost all of the players may also be very much aware that now the levels of competition are very, very though and one is not sure barring of course a player like Sachin Tendulkar that even with a forced absence from some matches as a result of injury, ones place will continue secure within the team. In the event the substitute player performs well, then this original player could find it difficult to come up with a come back. Haunted with this fear, the player hides his injury and tries to pull up with it as long as possible.

The most pertinent real question is; why at the cases of injuries among Indian players are getting to be so rampant suddenly? The team physio and also the experts have remarked that the injured players do not get sufficient time and rest for recuperation. For the reason that the Indian cricket calendar is heavily burdened with international matches. India plays more international cricket than every other country on the globe. Take for example, the past 12 months period beginning from last year’s world cup cricket championship for the end of Indian’s last tour of Australia. The ODI world cup cricket championship 2007 was played from March 14 to April 28th and India’s last tour of Australia ended on March 4th 2008. between Indian players never enjoyed an entire month’s rest at a stretch from cricket. The world cup ended on 28th April and Indian team after returning from your West Indies embarked on the tour of Bangladesh to play 3 one dayers and 2 test matches starting form may 10th. Right after returning from the Bangladesh tour, the Indian team had to rush to The uk to play against Ireland, Nigeria, Scotland, Pakistan and then England. The arduous 2 and also a half-month long tour ended on September 8th. From London itself the c's had to fly to Nigeria to participate inside the first ever twenty20 world cup championship from September 11 to 24. Returning from Nigeria Dhoni’s men needed to take on the world one-day champions Australia for any one twenty20 match and seven matches ODI series played from September 29th to October 17. Then came the tough five ODI match series and three test match series against out arch rival Pakistan spread between November 5 and December 12. The eventful [cricket wise] year ended but not the ordeal with the Indian masters. In December itself they India had to live the shores once more, this time for Australia to take on the world champions for the 4 test match series which started from December 26th then a 20-20 match and a triangular some day series involving three teams host Australia, India and Sri Lanka. The triangular series ended on 4th march, and Indian team returned home on 6th instant.

Much for the last Twelve months. There is no respite for that players for that coming Six months either. The team is now engaged in the 3 test matches home series against Nigeria, which will end on April 15th. This will be followed by the Indian premier league from April 18th to May 23. Asia cup [June 2008], make sure one day series against Bangladesh, Sri Lanka [July 23 to august 29] and ICC champions’ trophy [September 11 to 28]. Any player playing so many matches continuously runs potential risk of becoming jaded and injury prone. Therefore to deal up with the heavy international schedule, the much wanted rotation policy [is there any?] might be implemented fully. If the top players of the country from a pool of say 20-25 are utilized in different matches judiciously and alternately, it really is hoped that the problem of fitness and injury might be tackled successfully.