Dravid showed poor captaincy again when Bangladesh could be forced to follow on, in absence of Kumble he kept RP Singh, VRV Singh and Power bowling. Did not use enough brain to ask Sachin or Ganguly to bowl....
Mr Cool, you will also be remembered as CLUELESS Captain in Indian cricket
RE:CLUELESS Dravid : Mr COOL
by anand lakshman on May 21, 2007 10:49 PM
i think wid four bowlers out of which three haven't even played tests properly its commendable to get dem out on a batting wicket ,still bowling was bad at the end,cannot blame dravid for every single thing.
Mates, imagine a Mortaza preventing the follow on, right when India had the Banglas on the mat.
These Whatmore guys showed that they have the gumption and gall and guts to give Team India a fight, and even a fright, so to speak!
Whatmore has emerged as the winner-in-chief in this fiasco rain-disturbed series.
Also, keep in mind that stars like Sachs and Gangs should have scored much more then the border-line hundred. It was as if they wanted to cross the line, and that's all that mattered to their miserable form in the last year or so...
In other words, they got a life-line from the BCCI for scoring centuries, albeit, against a much-superior minnow team - Bangladesh.
Well Mates, you've got to face England, and that too on their soil, so let's see what you do against Andersons and Pitersens and Flintoff. I predict a white-wash in English conditions.
For all of you who laud India's performance in Bangladesh - you have to hang your heads in shame, because they did not beat the Banglas in a comprehensive fashion, as would be expected from the best batting line-up in the world, of course, as always - always on paper.
Cheers with a few beers,
AL in Australia
P.S. Wait for the Series against Australia - man, you will be pulverised and decimitated to pulp.
RE:Bangladesh Takes the Honours......
by sabteam on May 21, 2007 10:03 PM
lol........ every player is injuring in each series.. lets see how many of them available in AUS series... in between lot of series r there... so talk abt it...
RE:Bangladesh Takes the Honours......
by JK on May 21, 2007 08:36 PM
I am just waiting for the day when India travel to Australia. I want to see Tendulkar Duck and get hit on the helmet and Ganguly wince against shortpitched stuff.I want to see these 2 fail miserably (Which they will coz australia have shaun tait and other young and REAK fast bowlers who ae half of these guys age. We have to accept that these guys are over the hill.By the way the man of the match in the curent test will gladly not be a Tendulkar or a Ganguly for their selfish hundreds but to the gallant Mortaza for his terrific ALLROUND performnce. these abangladeshis really play with so much pride that these lazy fat indians neve have.
RE:Bangladesh Takes the Honours......
by ALIRIO SALDANHA on May 21, 2007 08:59 PM
Well said Mate! I am with you.
Mortaza did the salsa around the Indians, both with the ball and the bat.
Team India and Nation India needs to take this a wake-up call that they have it cumming against stronger opponents like England and - the mighty Kangaroos!
Let's see what the think-tank does in the coming days. Perhaps they will rest Sachin and Saurav, against England, since they must be tired, after they scored hundreds.
They surely deserve to be with their families, since they had a torrid time for the last two years or so. The selectors should rest them, till they have to play against Zimbabwe or some other bottom-of-the-rung teams!
Aaah, you'll see Sach and Gang score centuries once again, and the whole country will go ga-ga on their performances.
Give them Tait, and Braken and Hogg and the others - in Australia - and let's see Gangs leave the ball moving outside to off-stump; and Sachs deal with the rising delivery. Man, those Kangaroos have you well documented and know your weaknesses thoroughly.
It's best if you two get sick, or have a tennis elbow, or break a hand or something, rather then go to Australia. I mean this with good intentions : mearly to safeguard your inability to play in their condition - now that you have past your prime.
Accepted, you were great guys some day in the past - but it's time to bow down gracefully, just like Glenn and Brian and the others.
Probably it's the sponsors that you are worried about, right? You have long term contracts with them, and you have to play to keep your 'value' intact, isn't it?
RE:Bangladesh Takes the Honours......
by JK on May 21, 2007 09:05 PM
Unfortunately AL we are in a minority. The vast majority in this country still beleive in their Gods of cricket. Call them semtimental fools or plain idiots or emotionaly constipated fans they will never get around it and will gloat over some victory over a hapless team than beat australia in austrlia or even in india when Adam Gilchrist trashed the hel out of them in Nagpur the last time they came here.(And Ganguly did not play that match remember? ha ha ha ha ha ha coz he was afraid? Bengal Hero)
RE:Bangladesh Takes the Honours......
by anupama on May 22, 2007 12:07 AM
jk you are jobless man posting every sacond comment.sachin has 4 hundreds in australia.great ponting only averages 12 in india.
RE:Bangladesh Takes the Honours......
by Ashish Kumar on May 21, 2007 08:49 PM
If wishes were horses, the beggers would ride them.And here we have a great patriot who wishes humiliation of his home team. Great! Sorry mate. I do not think Sachin and Sarav will oblige you.
RE:Bangladesh Takes the Honours......
by JK on May 21, 2007 08:53 PM
You think so? Shaun Tait and his gang will certainly oblige me as i have more confidence in them than OUR own guys.
RE:RE:RE:Bangladesh Takes the Honours......
by ALIRIO SALDANHA on May 21, 2007 09:11 PM
JK, you are hitting the middle stump!
Well said. Even if you don't know Shaun and the rest of the Aussie Gang, your words are a prediction of things to come.
Hell, who does not remember the 5-0 white-wash that the English players suffered, last season?
If that's not the fate of India - my name is not AL nor your name is JK.
Hey Mate J K Rowling, relax, our names will remain the same!
I wrote a hundred times that Australia will win the WC, and hundreds tried their best to word-bash me, of course with bad-words; lingo that was typical of the illitrate litrates; and every form of Hindi language abuses - that I did not understand.
Of course, in the end - they had to swollow their own spit and spite!
Best of Luck Team India - looking forward to see you in England and Australia,
RE:Bangladesh Takes the Honours......
by ALIRIO SALDANHA on May 21, 2007 10:06 PM
You sound like a wise Indian owl, Signor Utpal! :-)
You seem to know the 'who's who' of Australian cricket - and you have vaunted yourself admirably in this forum.
Is it the right word - shabash? (to mean - congratulations)!
I am sure you are feeling proud at this moment, and re-reading your post,again and again, right? A you are enjoying a narcissistic feeling at the moment, irrespective of how many people will read your post, ain't it?
You will go to work tommorow and talk about Aussie-bashing to your collegues,and all and sundry! You make me laugh guy!
I did not give names to say that I know names. I just rattled out a few names, and who knows - by the time the series is on, they may induct some freshers - to 'experiment' against the Indians!
You know, we Aussies like to experiment - Greg did that, but when the WC came, your BCCI guys said "let's get some more experienced players - what if these newbies fail?" Greg was the guy who taught Irfan to bat against the ball. Earlier, he was balling his ball to the bat.
Well, perhaps you'll see a new team altogether, by the time the season comes - of course Matthew the Gladiator; GilChrist the Blaster and Ricky the one who's going to over-take Sachin's records, sooner then later; and Symonds and many of the other guys I drink beer with, should be around. Unless CA decides to rest them against a weak team like - TEAM INDIA!
Well, Parekh, even Australia's bench-strength or their second-string team (Australia A) can punish India this time.
All the best to your high-expectations. We'll see what happens when the series comes around! I'll be looking out for you, Mate!
RE:Bangladesh Takes the Honours......
by ALIRIO SALDANHA on May 21, 2007 10:42 PM
Too many I's, Me's, in your posting!
Good to know you (another I) 'll be Australia for the fist day of the boxing day test match! To be precise, you will be there. Cool, You'll learn how to drink beer, because the majority of Australians drink beer during a game!
By the way, will you be there only FOR THE FIRST DAY, of the boxing day test match? 26th December to be precise!!
What will you be doing after that? Going to some Pub? Or look out for some blonde beauty? Maybe the TV cameras will point to you...and your family will see you doing the unimaginable = Utpal Parekh!
Take care! In Australia we do not do anything in hiding.
If you need help, give me a shout; I'll host you at some Pub. But like I said - what do you drink? I heard that some of you guys put a used battery in some and make a drink out of it! And it is one of the most potent drinks, besides being a killer drink...
Just kidding mate! Don't take anything personally. You know, life is fun, and cricket is fun - whoever wins, or loses! Morally India lost today, so what's the big deal?
With good-will towards you, and ill-will towards none,
RE:Bangladesh Takes the Honours......
by Dave George on May 21, 2007 09:43 PM
You indians are real stupids...if someone plays also there is an issue, if not also there it is...You dont know how to support a team and that is the one reason team india fails in important matches...You are selfish people like players want to see your favourites in the game..why to blame the players? Blame the supporters of india like you...
RE:RE:Bangladesh Takes the Honours......
by JK on May 21, 2007 09:38 PM
Utpal, why are you not talking about the last time australia came to india? When they decimated India in ther own backyrd?
RE:Bangladesh Takes the Honours......
by Debalina Deshmukh on May 21, 2007 11:51 PM
Hi Utpal, I know my friend Al from melbourne he is an ABCD so dont pay any heed to his ' intelligent outbursts and as for JK who prides on India being thrashed because of Sachin and ganguly and Dravid (All35)without proposing name of similar talents to replace them raises suspicion about his nationality and he could be from accross the border. So utpal keep writing
What did Ganguly and his chamchas do in World Cup? bangladesh team did not beat india but is politician ganguly who deliberately played negative cricket and gifit match to bangladesh and had big role in defeat just to humiliate dravid. WC is big event and ganguly betryed teh team and ditcched the captain Now he is in front for captaincy race there is only !% dif in odi winning average between dravid 's captaucny and ganguly's 5 yrs succces early exit in odi means to prove dravid poor captain, gnaguly 's records did not harm ganguly is politician he used dalmiay a fellow bangali, when dalmiya had bcci power and backstabbed him when he lost bcci power dravid anchoed the ganguly's success as captaind but ganguly ditched him and betrayed the team ganguly is selfish, politicina he is promoting groupism in ind dressing room ganguly wasted more balls than runs he scored poor fielding and poor running wkt and unwilling to take singles cost more runs to team also created pressure on batsman on other side He did not bother to try and hold an easy catch during agarkar%u2019s bowling 60 runs in 130 balls how it can help a team cause?? Ganguly had one stage for having batted through nearly 11 overs to make a mere 7 runs. Yuvraj Scored 47 runs in 10 overs India Scored 191 in 50 overs Ganguly Scored 66 runs in 21 overs wasted more balls than runs he scored., Yuvraj Scored 47 runs in 10 overs Rest of team scored 50 in 19 overs Against burmada Ganguly scored 89 in 114 balls wasted 25 balls that is around 4.6 runs per over... compare it to the indian teams average of 8.26 Ganguly was struggling while batting against burmuda, and got 3 lifes ganguly in whole faced 266 balls nearly 50 overs and make only 162 runs, the how much pressure built on incoming bats man doesn't matter india wins or Lose Ganguly RETURN WAS HYPED BY MEDIA BUT HE WAS NOT IN TEAM UNIFROM ALSO AND HE DID NOT ARRIVE WITH TEAM?? The picute which tev channel shown after ind defeat in Sl . all players were in tears but no sight of ganguly dhoni and harbajan Ganguly was not in pictue? Harbajan singh went wktless in 2 matches
RE:Politician Ganguly
by Faceless Spirit on May 21, 2007 08:35 PM
U short brain and short that thing below what else can u say the third class chain snatcher and pick pocket of a village market.
RE:Politician Ganguly
by on May 21, 2007 09:25 PM
You are terribly parochial.Now don't accuse Ganguly for Dravid getting out for 2 in the second innings.I can understand all Kanadigas ans Bangalorians are afaird of Ganguly staging a come back as skipper.Hence they go all out to run him down even if it is not his fault.
RE:RE:Politician Ganguly
by sabteam on May 21, 2007 10:10 PM
Suman u speaks really crap..
Dravid is a good batsman but not a good captain.. even not a average captain. He lacks ideas.. no enthsiasm in field.. never take responsibility for defeat... always bad decisions.. u cant blame ganguly and sachin for the loss to BD in WC, when dravid out for silly.. If indian bowlers cant restrict BD batsmen below 190 that is below average effort from bowlers.. dont say chamcha giri and all.. why Sehwag selected to WC tour? UTThappa? did they did well against BD? Batting first on bowling track is good decision? dont talk crap and dont copy paste ur messages from last 1 month. i am reading same shi*t from 1 month from u.. be sensible...
RE:Politician Ganguly
by bharat on May 21, 2007 08:35 PM
wow!!!!! gr8 article man...but have u noticed in the game against bangladesh Dravid was out before Ganguly so was Sachin and others....so how it wud have been had he also got out for may be 15 off 25 balls...do u really think there was any one around to play the balls had ganguly not wasted them????...common....
RE:Politician Ganguly
by Ashish Kumar on May 21, 2007 09:18 PM
I tend to agree with the theory of sabotage by Ganguly. But why did no one come to defend the sentiments of the people of Bengal when Greg Chappel showed them his nasty finger? Why are we so divided that a foreign national plays with the pride of one section of our contrymen and our hearts are not wrenched? We must pause to answer these questions for these issues do not arise in cricket alone. These questions raise their head when a Jaichand has a Prithviraj blinded. Times and again India has paid for such weaknesses. The powers of cricket get worked up when Damien Martyn 'manhandles' BCCI Chief. However, they loked the otherway and even sided with Chappel when he humiliated Bengalis (and mind you not Ganguly). As I write this I must mention that I am not a Bengali but only a proud Indian. The alleged sabotage got Ganguly a hero's welcome on his return from WC. After all this brave son of Bengal had worked his way back into Indian team, positioed himself with gutsy performance in South Africa and broke the "finger' pointed towards Bengalis.
Ganguli Tendulkar great politician. Play well against weak Bangla. Dravid fail in one game. This ppl say his dropping and then Ganguly Captain and Tendulkar Vice. Team mates lay down Dravid, great Captain.
RE:Ganguli Tendulkar
by on May 21, 2007 09:23 PM
You are terribly parochial.Now don't accuse Ganguly for Dravid getting out for 2 in the second innings.I can understand all Kanadigas ans Bangalorians are afaird of Ganguly staging a come back as skipper.Hence they go all out to run him down even if it is not his fault.
RE:Some observations of mine!!
by Pratap Singh on May 21, 2007 08:12 PM
Get in Kaif....Make him the captain. His presence in the field is good. The great fielder that he is, he is capable of motivating others. Yuvraj is at his best at point when kaif is at Sq Leg. With Kaif in the team.....Youraj and Kaif save at least on an average 40 runs in the field.
RE:RE:Some observations of mine!!
by Suman Bhat on May 21, 2007 08:11 PM
U sic brain, sic ppl. Dravid best Captain in all website. Ganguly Tendulkar great politicians drop them.
RE:Some observations of mine!!
by Pratap Singh on May 21, 2007 08:13 PM
No need to be personal.....If you are not feeling great about this discussion then please exit/.
RE:Some observations of mine!!
by Anil Khare on May 21, 2007 08:23 PM
Replace Jaffer and his sponsor both by Kaif and Kapil Dev respectively. There is no shortage of quality talent. Result oriented moves like this will take care of bulk of problems.
RE:Some observations of mine!!
by Pratap Singh on May 21, 2007 07:45 PM
We have heard this for quite some time now......so comming to the point....who do u think should be the captain???????
RE:Some observations of mine!!
by JK on May 21, 2007 07:56 PM
Anil Kumble is a spent force and Yuvraj Singh an Egoist who cant manage people with his huge ego. It is better to have the super egoist Tendulkar as captain as the rest will at least accept to that. Wether he motivates or not is another point but at leaset there wont be any groupism as their God is their captain and the rest will meekly follow orders.
RE:RE:Some observations of mine!!
by Arnab Gupta on May 21, 2007 08:20 PM
At the risk of starting a new debate, I would put Mahendra Singh Dhoni at the helm... And, I would put dinesh kartick behind the wickets, and play MS as a batsman only...
I think one needs a bit of flamboyance to take captaincy to the next level... Sourav had that, and I think now MS Dhoni has those same characteristics...
RE:Some observations of mine!!
by Jayanth Shah on May 21, 2007 08:00 PM
yes but tendulkar does not want to be captain, especially looking at how much his batting suffered wen he was offered captaincy a long time ago.
RE:Some observations of mine!!
by Soman Bhat on May 21, 2007 08:47 PM
bangladesh team did not beat india but is politician ganguly who deliberately played negative cricket and gifit match to bangladesh and had big role in defeat just to humiliate dravid. WC is big event and ganguly betryed teh team and ditcched the captain Now he is in front for captaincy race there is only !% dif in odi winning average between dravid 's captaucny and ganguly's 5 yrs succces early exit in odi means to prove dravid poor captain, gnaguly 's records did not harm ganguly is politician he used dalmiay a fellow bangali, when dalmiya had bcci power and backstabbed him when he lost bcci power dravid anchoed the ganguly's success as captaind but ganguly ditched him and betrayed the team ganguly is selfish, politicina he is promoting groupism in ind dressing room ganguly wasted more balls than runs he scored poor fielding and poor running wkt and unwilling to take singles cost more runs to team also created pressure on batsman on other side He did not bother to try and hold an easy catch during agarkar%u2019s bowling 60 runs in 130 balls how it can help a team cause?? Ganguly had one stage for having batted through nearly 11 overs to make a mere 7 runs. Yuvraj Scored 47 runs in 10 overs India Scored 191 in 50 overs Ganguly Scored 66 runs in 21 overs wasted more balls than runs he scored., Yuvraj Scored 47 runs in 10 overs Rest of team scored 50 in 19 overs Against burmada Ganguly scored 89 in 114 balls wasted 25 balls that is around 4.6 runs per over... compare it to the indian teams average of 8.26 Ganguly was struggling while batting against burmuda, and got 3 lifes ganguly in whole faced 266 balls nearly 50 overs and make only 162 runs, the how much pressure built on incoming bats man doesn't matter india wins or Lose Ganguly RETURN WAS HYPED BY MEDIA BUT HE WAS NOT IN TEAM UNIFROM ALSO AND HE DID NOT ARRIVE WITH TEAM?? The picute which tev channel shown after ind defeat in Sl . all players were in tears but no sight of ganguly dhoni and harbajan Ganguly was not in pictue? Harbajan singh went wktless in 2 matches
RE:Some observations of mine!!
by on May 21, 2007 09:27 PM
You are terribly parochial.Now don't accuse Ganguly for Dravid getting out for 2 in the second innings.I can understand all Kanadigas ans Bangalorians are afaird of Ganguly staging a come back as skipper.Hence they go all out to run him down even if it is not his fault. Sd T DOGRA FROM HIMACHAL PRADESH
These two are big time losers. But you know what they like their illustrious seniors like Tendulkar and Ganguly have made their place secure with 3 weckets apiece. These 2 losers could'nt bowl the last 2 tailenders when they had them at 148 for 8. Can this hapen in any team part from India? So much for youth and the skill levels. These two as the premier pacemen should have warrped the match but they let the tailenders to score heavily and avoid follow on.The biggest losers in this match are these two along with the 9 other smaller losers.
RE:RP Singh and VRV Singh....Losers
by JK on May 21, 2007 07:48 PM
What you mean to say is that Ishant Sharma and Ranadeb Bose cant bowl to the top and middle order? Could be true.
RE:RP Singh and VRV Singh....Losers
by Jayanth Shah on May 21, 2007 08:04 PM
JK, what do u mean can this happen in any team apart from India?? of course it happens, the tail wags in many test matches. please dont say this is the first time u hav seen the tail play wel, otherwise that wil make me think u are even more stupid than i already think u are. yes, they should have bowled them out, but they didnt. its not the first time its happened! and to utpal parekh, how do u know sharma and bose wil polish of a tail 10 times out of 10? u guys have no empathy or reasoning. just blindly blame everyone
