...when Indian team is coming to terms with the disappointment of world cup, again he has raised this issue. So I guess, Test series will also be good. Now as per India winning test series outside sub-continent, West Indies as recently as possible. After that we did not play that many test series. How many teams have won one test in Australia? None. India did that. How many lived to tell the tale another day that they have stopped Oz on their own backyard? Indians. How many of the visiting sub-continent team won a test in SA? SL? No Pakistan yes but long back, recently? Only India. We are not going to sit back and relax coz the blood has been just tasted and man eaters have devoured Bangladeshi lions also. Its just a matter of time because shakil makes a shakeela out of himself.....
RE:Shakil might be !@#$%% for his comment
by cheruvil george on May 17, 2007 07:50 PM
A win in Australia happened because Australia overhyped themselves like what West Indies did against India in 1983 WC. It happens that when the opposite flops India wins and not exactly because India plays to win.
RE:Shakil might be !@#$%% for his comment
by gopalakrishnan r on May 22, 2007 06:16 PM
c'mon man that was one of the best test matches ever played. it is one of those rare moments were the entire team fired all guns - batsmen and the bowlers. after that series the team was regarded as the best test side in the world to even challenge the mighty aussies and the fact that it happened outside the sub-continent and not on the placid tracks "specially" prepared by BCCI is an impressive thing
RE:Shakil might be !@#$%% for his comment
by Aditya Gupta on May 17, 2007 01:20 PM
yup.....dats true man....its just that the Indian fan expects the team2 win every match...
India has done well, just that it has also failed many a time does not mean it has never performed...
RE:Shakil might be !@#$%% for his comment
by radhika murli on May 17, 2007 04:45 PM
hey relax guys its just a fustrated man speaking out... Let him say what he feels ... gone are the days when we had to prove to the others that we are the best....
STOPPED WATCHING CRICKET ON TV...THUS SAVING LOT OF TIME.. (SPECIALLY TEST MATCH). AND STOPPED BUYING PRODUCT THAT IS PROMOTED BY CRICKET PLAYER......... THANKS....
Who is Shakil Kasem? Never heard of him. He said India is the most overated and overhyped team, which is true. The joke was one minnow calling the other, like the pot calling the kettle.
RE:Who is Shakil Kasem?
by Radhakrishnan Ramaswami on May 17, 2007 12:13 PM
All said and done, there was no need for Ravi Shastri to make such audacious comments that he will not take any prisoners. Let us talke less and show more in our performance. Let performance talk.
Let's ignore the comments of someone who could not even enter a minnows team. Only 3 have scored 6 sixes in an over. Ravi Shastri is one of them. He and Sobers did so in I class matches. Recently Gibbs did it in a WC ODI.
both the minnow teams slamming each other with comments and their fans gettin flustered while the world champs and may be even sl and sa practicing cricket for a next victory,lol
True no test series victory outside the subcontinent in a 1100 million cricket crazy nation..Shakil is very correct, the palying 11 do not represent the best in India they are here because of dirty poltics in Indian Cricket. If selection is done properly they will never be even in Ranji trophy circket. India will receive such comments as long as BCCI send's the team. BCCI should be banned from representing India and spoiling India's image.
RE:Splendid job Shakil
by Vinay Joshi on May 17, 2007 10:04 AM
merey bhai...if u dont have any cricketing mind or cricketing memory then its not necessary that we comment every now and then... fools like you create confusion and misbeliefs...we won the test series in WI just last year...we won our first test match in SA recently...we came close to series win..only let down by dravid's decision on playing munaf patel in final test...we also drew the test series against aus last time we were there...get ur facts updated man...otherwise its not necessary to blabber every now and then... god bless you
RE:Splendid job Shakil
by pradeep sagi on May 18, 2007 08:57 AM
joshi saab, I know one of ur uncles is in BCCI promoting all the incapable stupid players to Indian team.
U know how it feels, when you are the best player around and even not selected to group games, which are played before Ranji just because of dirty politics.
RE:this has to be a one of the most
by dino khan on May 17, 2007 09:38 AM
yup these comments hurt these guys a lot cause the men in blue got trashed in the wc and they all flustered cause they did not want oz to win but the mighty aussies won lol
RE:this has to be a one of the most
by mrpaki on May 17, 2007 12:24 PM
true u r rite at least bangla were in the super 8 where was india and their fan at home trashing sachin,dravid,gangu and winning 2 matches and they are all bagwan again
RE:this has to be a one of the most
by Julius Caeser on May 17, 2007 08:00 AM
What is true? Is it the fact that he is frustrated or the article ! If it is the latter then he is trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill. I think he should let his team's performance do the talking rather than his pen. If the Bangladesh team has truly arrived then they have to show consistency.
I would just say Rahul Dravid's comment as answer..When i turn back the history books of cricket..i don't find this man contributing anything to cricket and hence would like to ignore all his foolish comments..
