A cricket coach, has on the other hand, accept its powerlessness to bad luck. Yes, you can have fielding substitutes, but they might be as well to nil tailleur, so little are they allowed to contribute to the form of the game. The history of Gary Pratt - the sub that failed a furious during Ricky Ponting ashes 2005 - is also unusual because it is comforting.
Cricket should rethink its purist attitude of replacements? The argument is not as easy at it seems. From the perspective of the Viewer, the form of a Test match radically changes when a bowler is hit disability - and all the more true since the attacks of four men have become the norm.
To avoid all engaging cameo of MS Dhoni bowling fantasies, the quality of cricket Friday certainly would higher he kept his bearings.
It is good that Zaheer misfortune should have changed the balance of power while in this Test? Fletcher had been allowed to replace the Launcher disaster with one of the seamers spare party - Sreesanth, perhaps, or Munaf Patel - and then Rahul Dravid century first undefeated run could hit won a game not a game save.
But then the game of cricket produces a subtle unique interaction between the players and the terms and conditions. And any mucking with a replacement injury clause would encourage only teams without scruples to work the system to their own advantage.
You can now see: a bowler fast descent on the morning of the final game and contortions autour field as Cristiano Ronaldo after a solid tackle. After an extra spinner could be deployed to rip the ball from the same decreases his teammate had dug in the lawn.
Alternates are not totally foreign to the cricket. You may remember that, for a brief period 2005 and 2006, the one-day teams were allowed to select 12 players and then bring it back on a "bat" when appropriate in the game.
But the system has proved to be a disaster. Apart from the confusion among fans, players and coaches like hell, he put also paid to one of the most enduring traditions in the game: the value of the premium of the all-rounder. Who has need of an Andrew Flintoff when you can have two players to do the same job?
No, let the other sports shuffle on and off the field as Shane Warne people change his poker hand. In cricket, the same team that starts the game must finish the game - less losses along the way.
It is a difficult school, certainly, but the status quo favors teams with the most demanding standards of fitness and more courageous and resourceful individuals. Some of the greatest actresses of cricket stories of drummers with a disability who shrugged off the pain of broken fingers or bowlers who kept running in when lesser men (can we avoid an another parallel football here?) relies on the stretcher.
Think Malcolm Marshall skittling England with a cast on his left arm in 1984, or Colin Cowdrey defying Wes Hall with a hand in 1963.
Monday could produce a new chapter in the history, if Zaheer out with a cross-country Runner (itself a tradition which is abolished in October) and navigates India with the final overs. As for the old poor blowers, it still did not forgave Mickey Stewart to block its first Test long-awaited.
Injuries take toll on the India
Zaheer Khan: A fast Launcher whose body creaks as an Elizabethan Galleon, Zaheer lasted only three hours of the first test before limping off the coast with a hamstring strain.
Sachin Tendulkar: The "little master" was limited to the hotel of the team to tea with a virus. He made the field for the final session and will be able to bat today.
Gautam Gambhir: Fielding at short-leg, Gambhir took a nasty blow on the elbow of a Matt shot before scanning. Rays x revealed bruises but no interruption.
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