Whither Icons?

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Fading icons of Indian cricket? provides an interesting analysis on the icons of IPL.

Yuvraj Singh and Dhoni, both from the younger generation appear to have redeemed themselves with their performance. However, in the case of Yuvraj his reputation as a batsmen stands suspect, but his reputation as a bowler stands enhanced with his double hat trick in IPL season 2.

Sadly, the performances of the other icons from the senior batch, namely Tendulkar, Dravid,Ganguly and Laxman have left them exposed. The Deccan Chargers have quietly gone about neutralizing Laxman. Dravid as usual is kicking, crying and sweating it out. Ganguly, has been shorn of the captaincy and is now reduced to shoring up his place as a batsmen. So most of these icons have already been defanged.

However, Tendulkar is one icon despite his poor performance and captaincy skills will prove tough to extract. It needs more than money and guts to neutralize the Mumbai Indian icon as he is also the icon of Team India.

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