Balanced team is necessary but not always the sufficient condition for winning a cricket match.

It is said that cricket is a team game i.e. it’s a game which can be won by the coordinated movement/action of 11 players or where each team member contributes almost evenly. But this theory doesn’t hold true always. More we shift our focus from Test cricket to ODI or IPL, more we see the disobedience of this Universal theory.

Today, when selectors of any team sit down to figure out an 11 member team they always seek for All-rounder instead of a specialist but in reality this team-effort not always translated into triumph.

It’s true that you have to have a balanced team to win a match or before you come to the arena. But how many times we have noticed that a team has won because of equal contribution of all the team members. Rather, in 60 pct cases, we see that someone has to give an outstanding performance i.e. most of the occasion we find that a century or a 4/5 wicket haul has lead to the victory of that team.

On the contrary if a team has a terrific batsman or a bowler and rest of the team members are under average performers the chances of winning of the team is very low since the one and only Mr. Match-winner may not always click.

So as per my opinion, the heroic theory of cricket is that a team should have a balanced strength but when it’s come about victory it needs an explosion or an outstanding performance of an individual..