On possible talks around leadership change, former Indian captain Anjum Chopra says, I don't believe in any of this just floating around where somebody puts a spark, and then the fire rises, and someone else douses the fire. I don't personally believe in all this. When a team has done well, we always look for heads to attribute the success to, saying, ‘because of this person, it happened.’ But when we lose, we identify those heads that need to be chopped off. So I never personally get into it.
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00:00I don't believe in any of these statements which are just floating around and somebody just puts a spark and then the fire rises and and then somebody else goes and douses that fire.
00:10I don't personally believe in all this, you know, team has done well, we always look at heads where we can put that title on because of this person, we lose something and then we look at heads where we put it, we identify those heads where it needs to be chopped off.
00:28So I don't, I personally never get into it, leadership change, you think, and I probably ask all those people who think, who have probably made this statement or who feel, you actually think a leadership change will change the change the scenario of the present and ending?
00:47Brilliant, excellent, if that is the thought and that is the, that is a thought, I will not even say wish, I'll just say that is the thought, maybe, if changing captaincy was the scenario or the challenge, I don't think the present captain will say fine, I will not step down if this team can become a world champion.
01:06But we all know heart of hearts that that is not the problem. We are just trying to identify a problem which is actually not there and make it into a subject away from the focus areas which need to be addressed. So captaincy is not the area that needs to be addressed. It's the performance of players, skill of those players individually which needs to be addressed.
01:32If 11 individuals do their job collect individually in a correct manner, collectively, the Indian team will most likely tend to win and end up on a good side, not the other side. So I don't believe in these statements. And you don't, you don't just make a leader, you prepare a leader.
01:55And I know it, I know for sure that in this present Indian team other than Harmanpreet Kaur, there is no leader at present. Can be, will be, of course, Harmanpreet will not remain at the helm, she will not play cricket forever. There will be a leader. But as of now, Harmanpreet as the Indian captain is the best bet and she should be persisted with.
02:19There were questions, there will always be questions on the leader. I think she answered it with her captaincy as well. She answered it with her, with the bat as well. The only thing she expected was a little bit of assistance and help from the others which actually didn't come through. So this is just a deflection away from what the main challenge is. I think the main challenges need to be addressed.