It is very difficult to way-lay the seniors from the team under the pretext that cricket has become a game of youthfulness where the seniors do not have much presence. The commentators and observers of the game hold the view that a captain is indeed blessed if he has at his disposal a bunch of seniors. There sheer presence in the team, experts feel, would make the captain confident that a sense of service will be induced and good habits would be instilled.

The commentators have tried to contextualize their argument taking England as the reference. They have opined that a captain that does not have senior players in its squad may be fighting a losing battle. The rankings of the team internationally would provide ample testimony to the same. While West Indies and England continue to grope for answers the Indian team, blessed as it is with the bunch of the seniors is on a trail blazing path of success. While Pietersen is ridiculing through his columns the leadership abilities of Andrew Strauss, and West Indian cricket is facing a revolt from the players, nothing of this kind is being experienced elsewhere as the other teams have an admixture of seniors and fresher.

Fully conscious of their responsibilities, Indian seniors like Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan have been putting their backs into their work in New Zealand. Sehwag is mentoring Gambhir, while Zaheer Khan has taken Ishant Sharma in his fold, and Sachin and Dravid have been making success out of other players of the team. These seniors would also have some grievances, but they keep it aside and persevere for the cause of the team, with the tacit understanding that when the team would prosper their grievances would automatically get addressed.

May be, Buchanan would be able to imbibe this Indian philosophy and get along with the game of cricket in IPL Season 2.

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