I have never seen a better example of collective action than that visible in a cricket match. Especially for the fielding team. But when Dhoni, said, “we were outplayed in all departments”, it presented another example. Of collective action going haywire.
We always have this tendency to romanticise the concept of collective action. But without proper co-ordination among all the actors, mind you all the actors, the desired goals can seldom be reached. This might be something which we all take for granted, and sounds so clichéd, but do we give any serious thought to it?
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In a team sports, every team member has different abilities. The successful team effort can only be brought out by
Inspirational and strategic leader(captain) + team member's effort.
Here i feel the goal is very dynamic and strategies are changed very quickly. The team might go for a Draw or a Win, the strategies keeps on changing during the whole match. In this dynamic environment co-ordination is bound to fail sometimes. Hence the failure of team can be judged according to various scenarios.
Desired and tandem actions of most actors are necessary for successful collective action (except obviously the free riders). If it is not so, than it may become an individual action. The co-ordination between actors cannot be ignored and I doubt whether this co-ordination is taken for granted by the actors.
Forget cricket, take example of other games like formula1. A success of driver is not possible without co-ordination between driver, mechanics, engineers etc.
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