Miandad has summarized the whole story of Indian team very well. I strongly believe that its now high time that we let some of our senior players go and give opportunity to new players. It will be a good idea to rotate the 4 senior batsmen and let 2 or 3 of them only play at the time. This will give opportunity to players like Kaif and Yuvraj. And yes, I would like Laxman to come 3rd down and not after that. He has much more class and potential than Ganguly. He is a match winner and must be used accordingly.
Ganguly surely should to step down as captain, else his cricket career will soon finish. Kumble can be the best person for the vacant position, but this will again jeopardize Bhajji's career. Hence, I suggest to get back Tendulkar as a captain. This will give the much motivation which he is clearly lacking at the moment.
I doubt about India's ability to win this one-day series unless the new players like Sehwag, Kaif and Yuvraj set example.
Cricket great Javed is spot on about the way we played and lost in Bangalore. I congratulate him for calling a "spade a spade" and for having the fortitude to constructively criticize the Indian team. I certainly hope Rediff will carry more of his views. Frank-USA
I completely second the thaughts put forward by former pakistani Great "Jave Miandad". The problem with indian cricket team is they all look realy great on papers and there is no pressure on them but when it comes for a grit determination and positive attitude they just cave in. How many times we have seen them losing matches in the close encounters and especially against pakistan. The ghost of "Miandad sixer of last ball" still haunts them. Miandad is perfectly right when he says that the batsman of Sachin's calibure should have dictate the terms and set the tempo of the match not for a win atleast for a draw but Sachin made it so difficult for himself and for team that everybody start playingas if there life depends on each and every ball. Remember the same pith a day before, pakistan walloped india for some 270 for 2 afridi, youis all playing indiginious strokes, so where was the problem? Only answer to it is that, the problem was in Mind and application and presure. May be there is something to learn from this defeat.
1. sourav must go, it is better to give resignation before the selectors and indian public reject him. 2. Do not take any player of the same area like if you are playing in banglore, just drop Banglore local player. Becuase they are not able to perform due to local preasure. why the team should suffer. 3. i am not able to understand the playing under preasure at banglore. they should not forget that they have been selected to play from 100 crore population and if they will behave like acomon man then nothing great about them 4. players are more interested for commercial ad how thay can forget that their first role is to play. what message they are passing to the viewers after such bad performance.
The lines below depicts the true picture and mindset in subcontinent....
"The 'white' countries, let's give them credit, play cricket as it should be played. Just a game and an exhibition of skills and your mental resoluteness.
More than celebrating a team's win or wallowing in the sorrow of a loss, the lesson from this series is that the teams from the sub-continent are still not able to absorb pressure. It worries me..."
I've always been pro-India with a passion but something funny happened during the last two Tests.
First in Kolkata I saw Shahid Afridi get going in the second innings (first time I've seen him bat like that) and I was in awe. I cared less that India was slipping and more that this guy had the guts to play to win. Some of his strokes were beautiful. Less talented than Sehwag for sure but just total guts and passion.
Then when I watched the unbelievable drama on the final day I saw 11 brown men playing 11 others and I really loved the way the 11 brown men from Pakistan did all brown men proud. The other 11 brown men from India really taught the 1+ billion others why we get dominated in the world.
Attack is the best form of defense.
Javed's post reveals that he (like me) is not viewing India as the enemy. Hats off to him for a post that helps soothe Indians' feelings. The way he admonished Ganguly, Dravid & Tendulkar showed that he really thinks they are great players.
The end result of that series was that Indians and Pakistanis are feeling the same, maybe questioning who put the line that separates them in the first place... What a series!
i admire javed miandad for the batsman he was...but not for the thinker he is. Most of the points he presents are derivatives of other people's thoughts. I could have made the "analysis" he has and written about it. And then he goes about stating conflicting sentiments. For example he criticizes tendulkar for being cautious in the second innings (which i do too really), and then criticizes himfor playing an "airy-fairy??" shot in the first innings. I don't think his first innings shot was airy-fairy...i think he was looking to play aggressive and mishit a ball, which is quite natural. You do not really have to make comments just for the heck of it. No offence Mr Miandad...as i said you still were a great batsman.
