I live in US and was up early to catch the match. What a waste of sleep. I dont know what happens to Zaheer when he bowls to the Australians. He just sprays everywhere. Virendra Sehwag too doesent do anything of his calibre.I feel India needs to drop a couple of players to teach them a lesson. Look at pakistan. One bad match and off you go for the next. Why not give Munaf Patel a bowl.Let Dravid get back to keeping. Give Murali Karthik a chance. India needs to juggle its options. Nowadays people dont wait for the talent to play domestic matches and then come into the big league. Look at LeBron James. Look at the new fast bowlers in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Straight from high school. So why deny Munaf a chance.No offence but New Zealand batting is nowhere close to Australian batting lineup. Its just scary what India will do when they tour Australia. We indians living in USA watch matches with high hopes and spending a lot of money and time. Not for the crap that India is playing nowadays.
It was the repeat of World cup final. The difference was the domination was from Damien Martin instead of Ricky Ponting. I can't understand, why Zaheer Khan cannot bowl simple overs. There were total contrasts in Ajit Agarkar, and Yuvraj Singh. Yuvraj should be praised more because he went for 14 run in his first over and then he tighten the grip. Agarkar was just superb. Zaheer always needs a good support from the other end and if he doesn't get it then more often he loosses control. First 4 overs were enough to say Indians are giving away rather than Australians taking away. There weren't any classy shots from Australians but they never spared bad balls.
In batting, Sachin, Dravid, Laxman, Kaif, & Yuvraj gave their wickets away like world cup. That's why Ganguly prefers to have an extra batsman in the team instead of having wicket keeper specially like kiddo Parthiv Patel.
by bless of god.. Why our team goes as its way? what we have to learn from others? and, What happend our boys? If there is any idea about this in their mind (players) we will succes always. But, some time Indian players has performance thier skill well. some time we cannot belive that Is it Indian team? Any how we will wish them to perform their ability as well as they can. we are not expecting to keep them great always. Our lossing should not be a like unknown cricket team.
Today we saw a very good bowling spell from Ajit Agarkar. When Agarkar had rushed to his fastest 50 wickets in ODI's, he was bowling first change, and that where he should bowl. He can be the Flintoff of India if Indian captains use him well. His batting is also coming off well, remember his 10 ball 22 at Gwalior? (btw he also has the record of fastest 50 runs - 21 balls) by an Indian). I think Ganguly shuould take a leaf out of Dravid's book, in using Agarkar and keeping the batting order flexible.
Once again Indian batsmen failed and demonstarated their worth. Sehwag was habitated of getting out in mid 20s then it chaned to first over and now it's it's ball.What a progress! Sachin once again proed he is not a match winner. He looked like more interested entertaining the crowd than winnig. Why was hw leaving all 3 stumps, moving out of leg stump ? That too whjen the pair wac scoring 7runs/over for past 7/8 overs Looks like he wanted to score all 150+ required runs in one shot. He opened the flood gates. And after Yuvraj there were no hopes even to defend. So the question What is the imported team mgr. doing ? Bowlers not bowling to the line. The first timer aussie spinner was king and Indian king spinners were lambs. If ACB warn Stev Waugh against under performance, why cannot BCCI throw out useless guys. Cant we pick up 11 out of 1 billion who can play agianst 2nd class aussie bowlers, that too on India wickets? May be BCCI should cancel Au tour and play with Kenaya or Namebiya. SRT will hit lot more 100s and Kumble will be back in form.
Though it was very disappointing to see India go down so tamely to the Aussies,ups & downs are what make the game so interesting,& what really grated on the nerves was the commentary of the so-called 'experts' on DD National,who,wrongly,I thought,mercilessly savaged India's performance on the field today.For sure,it was a below-par effort from the Indians,& we had all been expecting them to repeat their superlative performance,but then,they're trying their best,which is really what counts,& the armchair experts can say whatever they want-it's easy to critisize & crib about everything & every player when we're at the recieving end-I think we'd really be better off observing how & why the Aussies won so comprehensively today,like they do most days....after all,their public(and commentators) don't place them on a pedastal when they win,& drag them through mud when they don't.It's high time we learnt to see things in perspective.........do tell me what you think,guys
When will the Indians be able to implement their "hard thought!" plans? When they can put the ball in place.
Sehwag is a stock bowler. If he gets wickets, it's because the batsmen makes mistakes. You can't bowl him in the first fifteen! He is not accurate enough. Another place where Indian captain went wrong was to go on the run saving pattern when australia lost quick wickets. We are not srilanka. We get wickets only when we attack. Not when we choke a batsman off his runs. We do not have good enough bowlers to do that.
Another point that begs answers is... If India can't play five bowlers and a wicket keeper in India on turning tracks in its team, where the hell they will play five bowlers? Even in India, if you need seven batsmen in your team to win a match, then there's clearly something very wrong with you.
Only bright aspect of the whole match was the fact that the team management "had" some thought going. Even if they got the implementation wrong.
PS: What's Sehwag doing now-a-days? He wants to justify his place in the middle-order? Then failing as an opener isn't the way to go.Let's hope sewag fires with the bat as the series progresses.
First things first... India doesn't know how to use its resources. Their thought process was right, execution was completely wrong. Giving Zaheer khan 4 overs in his first spell after the way he bowled in the first over was the biggest mistake that Dravid made. Zaheer seems to have a mental block against Gilchrist. Otherwise nothing explains the fact that in the opening overs he bowled well when Gilchrist was off the strike. It's good to see him bowling the leg cutter. But he better do it with the old ball. Srinath had once said that the key to bowling in India was to keep the ball at just short of good length. Nobody knows whether he had passed the wisdom he had given so generously to the newspapers to the team members. Agarker bowled well. Kumble and Harbhajan can only do so much. The biggest mistake India did was to let Damien Martyn play his way to a century. Agreed he's a good batsman. But he was alredy sorted out two years ago by stephen fleming and newzealand. Pack the off side. Put a slip and bowl full outside off stump. He wouldn't last more than two overs.
