There is no regret for this defeat. We don't have any match winning bowlers. The quality of present Indian bowlers is less than county cricket level. This is totally undermining the batsman's effort. The bottom line is, we badly need some good bowlers. Till then defeat would be the part of Indian cricket team.
In today's news that Aussies too good for India, it says a valiant effort by Tendulkar. I am not critisizing him, but what is so valiant on part of Tendulkar, is that as an opener he could not get the runrate to the required rate and more. He being the best batsmen in the world should have had it much easier that the Aussies in scoring at a more higher rate than they did. It would do India a great favour if everyone stopped resting on the past laurels and judge each player on the merit of the current match. I think Tendulkar is equally to be blamed for losing today's match. He needs to justify his tag of the best batsman in the world and do justice to all the endorsement money that is being paid to him and live up to the expectations. He has played enough matches to know what is required to be done when chasing a total in excess of 300 against a team like the Aussies. Do not praise him just because he is Tendulkar and judge him for what he did today.
I think it is abt time Dravid owned responsibility for his wicketkeeping debacles . The team management has entrusted him with a job and he should work on it seriously . And moreover he should take interest in it and enjoy it . Everyone is doing a job in the Indian team and so should Dravid . Today had he got Ponting out then Aussies would have ended with around 300 which Indians would have chased down . Just sympathising with Dravid saying he is non regular will not help . He has been on this keeping for the past two years and by now he should have perfected it had he taken interest. Lets wait for a match or two and if Dravid continues in this manner then he should be dropped . He has no business to be in the one day as a pure slow coach batsman .
i fell we shoud take all 11 batsmen . Any ways have bowlers in our team hardly matters s that we can cahse any score above 300(whaich we most often chase now a days, many times un sucessfully).
Well it could be put in this way as well...India is too bad against the Aussies. In the Aussie squad each one is a Sachin. Each one has the potential to annihilate the bowling attack. One miss and you are out of Tournament. Why does India not have a genuien wicketkeeper. If Indias life is spinners, spinners life if wicketkeeper. Is that a difficult equation to understand for any cricket watching person? A stumping missed for Ponting means you reduced your chances of winning to less than 50%. same for any other person. No blames to Dravid as its not his job.
I think we need to look at the bowling tactics that Indians follow while bowling to Australia. Both Zaheer and Nehra have been disastrous in handling Australian team. We need to look at their replacement against ausies.
