I don't understand why all our commentators (who are all only average by the way) have to suck up to the Kiwi commentators and criticise Indian players? What impression are they trying to create? That they are above competing? That they encourage 'other' teams? I think all Indians need to be proud of our cricket team and give them time to get into their groove and play good cricket. Negative comments certainly don't help!!!
Easy to blame and difficult to perform! "India could have wone.." and so on.... easily said than done!Afterall the other side(NZ test team) is no push over, that too playing under the one of the present best captains in the world! Let us appreciate India has played well and NZ has done equally well to save it.Let India prove it's capacity by winning in Mohali test. Best Wishes to our Team. Umasuta Rao
Kumble is a great bowler but all good things must come to an end. Now that Kumble has got 350 wickets, he should bow out gracefully. I don't think he will get 400 soon while other great bowlers of the world are looking at 500! So what is Kumble playing for? While there is no doubt that he has been great, all the batsmen now know how to tackle him. It is better to step down when people ask 'why' and not 'why not'.
Sairaj Bahutule has also impressed with his batting, so he is a good replacement for Anil.
I fail to understand the sudden flurry of articles expressing concern that no Indian has scored a triple hundred. Is that really the answer to Indian cricket? We had 500 runs on the board in Ahmedabad but could not enforce a follow on by cleaning up the tail. Isn't the real problem not being able to get 20 wickets in a test match? WOuld Hayden's 385 really have mattered if the Ausssie quicks not got Zimbabwe out twice? I would be really interested to know how many of Clive Loyd's all conquering West Indian batsmen scored 300 or above individually? But are they still not remembered as one of the all time great test sides? The obsession with individual records gets to us more than the obsession with winning.
RE:Manjrekar's energy levels
by Atul Vatsa on Jan 13, 2006 01:52 PM
Hi Rana this is Atul Vatsa hop you remember me I'm from LIC please contect me my E-mail ID is atulvatsa@gmail.com
To score 300 runs in an inning, we need to score runs at a faster rater than current rate of about 2.75 runs/over. Even Rahul Dravid has scored his 222 runds in about 450 deliveries at the rate 2.96 runds/over. We can't offered to score 300 runs at this scoring rate unless we as defending a huge score to save the match.
