The report has missed out a very important aspect of the game . Gangully performed the role of the 12th man . Prem Paniker and his able chamcha Faisal silently kept this off from the readers. Gangully is a perinial allergy to these pack . He cares little about these . but we as Indian criket fans get really upset . But that's life . I am an avid rediff reader and believe me this is the only area of the this balanced website which has remained as a black mark . May be a marketing technique.
The way India is playing cricket is more a shift in the mentality than anything else. So I think it is time that sports journalists quit praising an individual for a win. This will definitely be a shift in their mentality. Sehwag, his first game as captain and your already crapping on him. Im sure captaincy is an art as well as science, so it takes time for someone to be good at it. I'd like to see the author of this article captain a cricket side.....seems to know all the answers!!!!
There are mistakes ("Sending him down at number six, ahead of Patel and Sanjay Bangar, seemed a touch unfair"... even though Kale came lower down the order) in this report... The funny thing is it points to the mistakes made in the field... Reporters needs to be more careful... Faizal cannot type in a couple of pages from his safe place without a mistake. Not sure how he expects us to have any sympathy with his article... where he criticizes almost every Indian player for making mistakes in the 45 C heat... People who live in glass houses needs to be more careful.
"Sending him down at number six, ahead of Patel and Sanjay Bangar, seemed a touch unfair. For a specialist middle-order batsman it would have made more sense to send him up the order to test his character."
What do you trying to say here? I am not being critical, just trying to understand
A pretty sloppy article with some sweeping and uncalled for comments such as "....his performance today could be passed off as an off day, but if it continues it could well mean his days are numbered." Come on man, this is just his second match.
