Image is not everything
Image and injury ensure that there is a high turnover of players in the Indian team
Judhajit
25-Feb-2013
Image and injury ensure that there is a high turnover of players in the Indian team. However, it is always more difficult to return to the team after being dropped than to get into it in the first place though sometimes, the image works in favour of the player too. Suresh Menon in his column on Dreamcricket.com believes an ounce of image is worth a pound of performance but not when it works against the player.
Rahul Dravid, now re-established in the team, was luckier than most simply because he was Dravid, and his image was that of a player for whom failure was a stranger.
In the current team, Yuvraj has laboured for long under the weight of his image as a casual player, unable or unwilling to buckle down to serious business. A place in the Test team seldom falls into the lap of a player, and most of those who have got that far are conscious of this. Yet some players pick up such a reputation, and few are able to shake it off.