This is the best line up India has got from long time. I havnt seen such fire in their eyes and believe in them selves. We have lots of talents in the team like jaffer and gambhir and fighters like kartik, dhoni, R.P and zaheer. These are very well supported senior players like rahul, sourav and anil. Offcourse not to mention about sachin whose cricket is popular in the whole world. I think some of the back up players should be used on regular intervals. players like laxman and sreesanth should give way for yuvraj and pathan. Nevertheless great team to watch and should keep it up to the mark.
RE:Best line up
by Sumit Basu on Aug 12, 2007 05:48 AM
perfect line up to groom youngsters as seniors slowly,willingly and sportingly leave the arena. creg gapell failed to induce that
RE:Best line up
by John Bosco on Aug 12, 2007 12:40 PM
To go forward we need a good shadow team.It can have Partiv Patel and Pujara as openers.Tewary at three.Rohit Sharma at 4.Raina at 5.Badrinath at 6.Dhoni at 7.Piyush Chawla at8,Irfan at 9,Munaf at 10 and Mahesh or Pankaj Singh or Ishant Sharma at 11.The shadow team can keep playing.If someone in the main team does not click consistently give a chance to the shadow team memberin that slot.
RE:Best line up
by Raj on Aug 12, 2007 03:43 AM
laxman is a rare class player. sachin needs to give way for young players.He is ancient, time to play in ICL.
RE:Best line up
by Nandu R on Aug 12, 2007 05:38 AM
If Laxman is a class player. then Sachin is the best of all.Tendulkar has 60 average in 2007 alone. Where as Laxman has 28.83 average including yesterday 50 score. Laxman cant bowl. Atleast sachin can bowl and take wickets as well. Also sachin is much better fielder compared to Laxman. On what basis do you guys really cant laxman is a class player.
RE:Follow on.
by punga naale on Aug 12, 2007 02:09 AM
guys the thing is that v hav jus 2 days to go and india cannot waste more time in setting up target and then bowling them out. lets get them in a day and if v have half a day on the fifth day to get 200 runs in 50 odd overs then v can still do it. So thats should be strategy for the team. GO INDIA GO
RE:Follow on.
by ashutosh srivastava on Aug 12, 2007 01:37 AM
hey deepak.. do u know wht follow on is..??? frm whr respect or play by rule came into picture??
RE:Follow on.
by Harish Mehta on Aug 12, 2007 01:35 AM
Hello Deepak, India can bat if they want even after giving follow on to England. This is also a rule.
RE:Follow on.
by Raza Hasan on Aug 12, 2007 04:09 AM
batting on the last day would be difficult on this pitch.....so India should bat 1 or 1.5 sessions, score as many run as possible.....then let England bat at post tea session on 4th day and entire 5th day.....
This is perhaps one of the most exciting India-England Tests to watch ever, especially if England buckles-up and give the Indians a run for their money, and more espcially, to save a follow-on. In sports anything can happen, so don't rule out the Brits as yet. And yes, it's a great showing by Kumble.
RE:This is the time to retire for Kumble
by Ravikumar on Aug 11, 2007 11:28 PM
Rajesh, Its right time for u to keep ur mouth shut and mind ur business.
RE:This is the time to retire for Kumble
by Nandu R on Aug 11, 2007 11:17 PM
Please keep your great prediction about others life to yourself. Do we say when you have to retire from your job. Everyone knows when to retire, when to eat, when to sleep. PLease dont keep advising others. Look at yourself alone.
RE:This is the time to retire for Kumble
by Rajesh on Aug 11, 2007 09:24 PM
I agree with you, India should drop him and try youngsters, if he is not ready to retire.
