Dhoni must have by now realized that whats his team without sachin and viru.Gambhir and Rohit Sharma continue there poor run.Even on WI pitches where u need to have a good batting, dhoni is playing with 4 specialist batsman (excluding him). Dhoni..please use uroptions, u have not taken them there to sit on the bench..please use slow medium pacer like Nayar..he can become a better allrounder then jadega/pathan. With the current players available, i think dhoni should go with the following team for the next game Dinesh Kartik Murali Vijay Badrinath Yuvraj Dhoni Abhishek Nayar Yusuf/Jadeja Bhajji Praveen R.P. Nehra
Bring Gambhir/Sharma in the 4th game,if this combination doesnt work...otherwise make them sit in the bench
Re: Re: Bad display and poor team selection
by Koduvayur on Jun 29, 2009 05:11 PM
BUT we need a captain who is better than the best India have ever seen.
Re: Re: Re: Bad display and poor team selection
by amit singh on Jun 29, 2009 05:18 PM
yes...and very soon he will become better than the best! just wait n watch. He has led the country only for 2 years give him time boss!
this is a team representing the Nation at least we all think .Now like Sania said she did not have enough practice after French open .Dhoni comes out saying we did not have enough respect to the bowlers .Dhonis memory may be short - Bravo has won matches for WI against India a number of times .Our team mebers were just not able to play his bowling - particularly slow balls . Recently Afridi said his performance is improved because he learnt to reapect bowlers . No doubt the team looks jaded after such hectic cricket - no one wants to admit yes it is the money lure . I always said losing is not a big deal , how you lose is very important .did you give a hard fight , see the first ODI even if WI lost they gave such big fight . Now Gavaskar ji would you have batted like Rohit in one day match also ? I am a big fan of Gambhir - but the way he is batting , he needs to be given a boot .He is failing time and again .Unlike in 2008 when he had sucha huge success and hardly failed .What is more irritating is they are not learning from their mistakes . also no grea effort is being shown to over come the lack of form or failures .They still are playing in the 20 format -playing their shots too early .Frankly it is shame to lose to this WI side , not that I am under estimating but it is no great team . Why this series if every one has to go thru the rigmorole or go thru the process for the heck of it.
"We should have paid more respect to the bowlers" does not make any sense. How do you respect the bowler? By saying Namaste or laying prostate at the crease?
The first lesson is "to respect the ball and not the bowler". Play every delivery on its merit. The good ball from an unknown bowler from an associate country has to be played with more care than a loose delivery from an established bowler. There is no question of respect to bowler.
Players like Gambhir and Rohit were not in the right position to play the stroke, it has nothing to do with any bowler. If you can not judge the ball and want to play risky shots like pull you will end up getting dismissed more often than hitting boundaries. The only wayout is to go through the recording of the game and analyze the mistake and try to play better next time. If there is a pattern developed, work on sorting that out. Unless you are a good student of the game, you can not become a great player. Making same mistake again and again does not make any sense when there are so many cricketers around waiting for a chance.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Comment does not make any sense
by Imran on Jun 29, 2009 04:34 PM
Stats don’t always reveal the true picture like the team situation the county played against etc
Re: Comment does not make any sense
by srinivasan krishnan on Jun 29, 2009 04:22 PM
whatever ideas you have told is totally new...no cricket team has ever followed it...its is great thinking...HATS off to you super brain
Re: Re: Comment does not make any sense
by Jay on Jun 29, 2009 04:52 PM
I have not played at intl level, but have played some cricket at lower levels (like Inter-university) but never pursued cricket as a career option. How does it matter? To be an expert in cricket one need not be a player himself and good players are not often good at analyzing their games. What I have told is done regularly by serious cricketers and coaches. It seems Woolmer had a separate analysis of the patterns of deliveries which restricted or dismissed every top order batsman. The SA team benefitted from the same when he was the coach.
