Time to back the team: Sachin

Team India is an all time low, having lost all its games in the Super 8s in the T20 World Cup but the master feels otherwise. In an exclusive interview to TIMES NOW Sachin Tendulkar told cricket expert Boria Majumdar that the team will be back with a bang.

Boria Majumdar: A huge T20 disappointment but perhaps it is time to move on.

Sachin Tendulkar: It was a disappointment. These things happen in cricket. I am sure that the guys had planned well and tried well but sometimes things just don't click. Along with me the entire nation is disappointed and so are the players. The best option at this moment is to start thinking about the next tour and move forward on a positive note. It's tough and challenging and the team effort will count here. If the whole team is going together then it will be easier. The disappointments will be there but you just got to move ahead and try and put in a better effort. I have no doubt that the team is going to get together again now and take the best foot forward in the direction we all want to go.

Boria Majumdar: We are an emotional lot, we have reacted. How do we get ourselves back?

Sachin Tendulkar: I know that the emotions are very high and the people like to react but my only question is that do these reactions help us play better? Not really. They don’t contribute in the team playing better cricket and just puts more pressure on the players. I would ask everyone back home to be behind the team. When they are behind the team the team itself becomes a formidable force. Ups and downs are going to be there and this is not the last one. We are not the only nation and it has happened to all the nations’ of the world. We just got to be mature and stay with our team. If we do that there will be better times ahead.

Boria Majumdar: Have you had a word with the boys? Have you given them inspiration?

Sachin Tendulkar : I haven't had a chance to talk to them. I know everyone will be extremely low and feeling terrible about their performance. I would want to give them some time. When I catch up with them we will have better things to talk about. It should be about how we should move forward. Nobody can change the past but you can always learn from the past and do something better in future.

Boria Majumdar: Does the whole nationalist hysteria perhaps go over the top at times?

Sachin Tendulkar: I just feel that we need to react to success and failure with a lot of
responsibility and balance. It we do that then it is easier for everyone.