predicament of being amit mishra...

you debuted in an odi six years ago... got discarded without given a proper look in... go back to domestic cricket... work hard... with an aim to fight your way back into team... in doing so get no less but about 300 first class wickets... you claw your way back into team... thanks to the timely injury of kumble... get first five-for on debut itself... against no less a team than australia... get branded as test match bowler...

you take all this in your stride... but who can keep a good man down... not ready to accept defeat... so its no coincidence that you become the second highest wicket taker in emerging players tournament on australian pitches... not so known to support spin bowling... ultimately get a call in odis too after a good six years of exile...

but what happens then...?

for all the places where you can play two front line spinners... srilanka should be counted as the first... you see rainas bowling... you see even yusuf pathan pretending spin... but you don't get a chance to play there as second spinner coz your captain thinks you are not good to stand even on spin friendly pitches to warrant a place in final eleven...

what can you do...?

what can you expect in south africa... other than being a member of touring party in champions trophy...

then you start to think... why i got selected in the team in first place... i would have been better off playing in an irani trophy or some domestic games... atleast i would have got the chance to play...

its not easy being amit mishra...

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predicament of being dhoni...

imagine...

when you have more than half the team which needs to be hidden in the field... thanks to robbing singh...

when you have bowlers who bowl in hope rather than conviction...

when you are forced to accommodate another senior who again needs to be hidden in the field... can't find his way out to score... in the disguise of an answer to your short pitch problems...

you can easily understand the predicament of being dhoni... no wonder he is aging fast and has already grown some gray hairs...

wonder how dhoni still keeps cool... when one feels like throwing them in the pacific ocean... as bedi once famously said... after seeing them field like kids on a slippery ground... bowl like as if they are allergic to leather... hence it needs to be dispelled quickly without thinking where its going...

and still dhoni somehow wins you matches... against all these odds...

now you actually start to wonder...

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