Don't change!

No, I mean you can and should change your clothes daily, but what I want to say here is purely in cricketing terms.

I do not want to like people to change, be it their action, their attitude, their stance or whatever. Agreed, that if there is a fault you need to rectify it but then again don't they say play your natural game and be yourself.

I would like to argue here that when you were good enough to get chosen for the team with the action or stance or technique you had then why would you make major changes in them? I understand that you need to keep improving and iron out your faults since the opposition is always a step ahead. Then what if the change brought about by you makes you a different player altogether?

Take for instance, a Sehwag - he never made any change to his technique nor his mindset and now he is one of the most feared batsmen of the current crop. And now contrarily look at an Irfan Pathan, when he started off, he was a swing bowler with decent pace and with every outing for India his pace seemed to be increasing. There was a time when he would bowl at 140 kmph and around. And now? The case has reversed...he is out of the team, scratching his head to find form, lacks pace, lost his swing and is not even a mirror of what we knew Irfan Pathan was!!

And there are several such cases I can list out, Ishant Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Balaji, Munaf Patel, for bowlers and for batsmen - Mohammad Kaif, Hemang Badani, Dinesh Mongia, and lots more...who seemed good enough and were performing handsomely for their domestic teams but it was only after their stint with the Indian team that they somehow lost the touch and seemed out of form for months together!! and also never made it back to the Indian Team...the list is endless, these are just some of the names that come off the head.

So my simple suggestion to these guys would be to not listen to too many people and not change too many things and try and keep the basic structure same and only then will you find success.