i am totally shocked to read twp particular articles 1. steve above the team 2. little imagination plz
from wat i read , those two articles shud have been written by someone who doesnt know anything abt the game of cricket ........for exp he says chasing 6.5 runs per over is not impossible that too with the top oder back into the hut
secondly with indias depleted blowin resoures and the dauntin battin line up of australia the other feels the need of imagination ...think twice
It was the fear of loosing than his own personal glory that led the australians to send waugh instead of Gilchrist. I mean this dude Gilli is terribly out of form and if one more wicket had fallen at that time god knows what would have happened. Six and half an over sounds too exciting, but you should note that Indians still managed to get 6 wickets. So one more wicket while waugh and katich were batting would have changed the dynamics of the time. At no point after Langer got out there was a realistic chance of Australia winning the match. You should see the way pointing and martyn batted. They were playing for a draw.
I hope some body points out the flaws: 1. Sachin should have played more for the country and less for his personal records. -I think after scoring 200 in the first innings Sachin should have tried to accelerate the scoring rate. -In the 2nd innings he should have played like one day. Not a 2nd fiddle to Dravid and should not have slowed down for his 50.
2. Ganguly should have utlized Tendulkar and Shewags bowling capabilities in both first innings and 2nd innings.
RE:Indian Flaws in 4th test
by Ganesh V Jois on Jan 07, 2004 08:04 PM
I think you have lost your head. If you look at a little closer, most winning teams have at least two batsmen who score 150+. So stop blaming Sachin. He scored 241 in 436 balls which is quicker than Dravid's 233, which came of 446 balls. As for the second innings, we scored 211 off 43 overs. And may I remind you that Sachin kept taking singles and gave Dravid the strike knowing that Dravid was in form and scoring fast. I think you have a prejudiced mind for why else would you blame Sachin for our bowling ineptitude with Kumble being the only bowler who always looked like taking a wicket?
what crap is this? obviously then, tendulkar takes an even larger blame for batting slowly even as patel slammed the aussies around earlier in the game? if one cant appretiate someone else's achievements, at least learn to keep quiet.
