i do not think the WI series of 1983 and the present series with the Aussies are comparable. the present Indian team is not as bad as the 4-1 result suggest. in fact with little more luck the Indians could have won the Nagpur match. people may not agree but fact of the matter is the seniors(including Zaheer) and the youngsters are not jelling to the optimum to win close matches. if not at one go, atleast the seniors should be rested by rotation to give chance to youngsters like rohit sharma, dinesh kartik, badrinath and others towards team building for future. if the status-quo continues like this India may not win any major one day series or Championship for long time to come.
The Aussies might have clinched the series but I do not think they are a stronger side. Indian team loses because the selection committee and the captain are forced to make choices for non-cricketing reasons. Otherwise no one can rationally explain what Rahul Dravid and Sri Santh were doing in the side at Ahmedabad. I believe both will be dropped for Mumbai match and I am 90% certain team India will win the match. Let us not forget that our second grade team (which did not include our best players like Sachin, Saurav and Zahir) defeated the Aussies in the T20 match.
RE:Australia Vs India
by Sameer joseph on Oct 16, 2007 06:57 PM
u cannot compare T20 with 50-50 , T20 is totally differant game of cricket, if u choose 10 teams from India n play all in worldcup , i am sure any team can go to finals, its not the real format of cricket .. So if the T20 won same team wins against australia n keeps on wnning like australia , then we can say we are champions...T20 zimbabwe also defeated aussies...
1. Australia with a strong batting line up batted well to score 317 against below par Indian bowling and fielding.
2. India nearly reached that total against top quality bowling and feilding.
3. In conclusion Australia scored 317 against poor bowling and India nearly scored that against good disciplined bowling therefore over all India played better and nearly won!!
RE:I think India won the Nagpur ODI
by Sameer joseph on Oct 16, 2007 07:04 PM
it was bad bowling and bad fielding catches missed resulted the Loss, overall indian batting was good, they did not dissapoint us with bat, So scorring 299 of good bowling/fielding attack is better batting dispaly than 317 of worst bowling/fielding .... So we won in batting lost in bowling/fielding overall we LOST..
if you still look at west indies track record they have more win:loss ratio to everybody except SA. That is their dominance. Aussies are just showing off they are the boss. The steve waugh men truly conquered 1999 but nothing much they have done after that. It is all mind game they are playing. They do not have talent except may be ponting with bat and mcgrath with ball. But for every ponting there is a sachin and every mcgrath there is a asif from indian subcontinent. Just because they are champions they are becoming more popular. We Asians are suffering from inferiority complex in front of them. Australian team is as good as the Indian team if not better. We have rohit sharma who can hit six with ease, we have yuvraj, we have rp who can hit anybody's stumps at any time. It is just we are worried that we dont have in us. Dhoni might be knowing this and he is calm. Hope Indian cricket will emerge victorious once again. We have once pulled down the mighty west indians and now again we will the bossy kangaroos. Give respect to other sports also that is the key other wise there will not be any sania mirza or vis anand in the future youngsters. Also please give respect to kapil dev he made us win world cup and the indian media pulled him for match fixing. Match fixing was done by weaker hearts not by kapil. Dhoni is the same down to earth guy and fearless as kapil and I hope with him the indian cricket team will change for the betterment of our country.
Symonds made runs just like any other player and he is putting in that racism incident to effect. That is their trick. They want us to think like that. The reason is symonds just batted and ended up making century. Indians especially tendulkar and ganguly are always worried of personal milestones and never get 100 and waste balls. This is true for the start of the time they are playing. Steve Waugh has 2 centuries and one of them is the best ever you will see. Teamwork is important. I think Dhoni is smart enough without being told about the teamwork. When Dhoni captained India I thought things have changed but we are back to square one. Thanks to politics: announcing crores of rupees to players when 75% of the nation cannot manage to get 1 lakh per annum (just a guess not sure may be little less or more). In India, everything is showed off. Indian youngsters were playing for their country in 20-20 without anybody following them. Now they became famous they are dragged into media and kept under pressure. Plus they have to deal with stupid australians who think they are the greats. They are not. Nobody is a champion in world cricket it is just mental. Only steve waugh's men (still present in their team) is making the difference thats all. I have more to say and keep on saying until somebody takes action and start regrouping. We are the best talent available in the world but consider others like chappell to coach our team how riduculous. We should have one all the games.
every one has an up and down, seems something is up now for aussies, if they fall they'll be hurt pretty nasty. Symmonds making a monkey out of himself, his team and ICC.
Starting with Wes Hall, Charlie Griffith, then Joel Garner, Ian Bishop, Malcolm Marshall, Michael Holding, Courtney Walsh, Curtly Ambrose and many other great fast bowlers West Indies purely depended on their ability to bowlout the opposition team and win matches. The Aussies on the other hand soften up the opposition with their filthy mouth and later get them out. That is cowardly. West Indies never indulged in sledging. They won matches purely based on their playing ability. There was no running down or insulting the opposition players. On the contrary the Australians have made a virtue of their despicable attitude. Since sledging has been institutionalized in Australia -- one reason could be that they are all descendents of criminals -- they have all been trained in psychological wordfare. No other country can stand up to the Australian filth in this regard. So their winning matches against opposition becomes that much easier. I wish they showed the world that they are capable of winning like the West Indies of 60s, 70s and 80s used to do. But then I think without sledging Australians would be beaten easily even by a lowly Kenya or Bangladesh. Sledging is Australian power and not their play. I wish someone could counter me on this score.
RE:West Indies were 100 times more authentic than Ausies at any time
by Sameer joseph on Oct 16, 2007 07:13 PM
dont say it .. have u seen Last world cup(50-50).. not even a single match they struggled to win, every match they won convincingly, they have more proffesional approach to cricket than us, learn from them...
RE:West Indies were 100 times more authentic than Ausies at any time
by ashish on Oct 13, 2007 11:57 PM
dude if u sayin the aussies trash the opponents with sledging then am sorry to say u have very weak opponents ,i wud neverget thrown over with words in a game ,look at the hard work they put in ,have u seen any sledging in the world cup ,the real one i mean not the silly t 20
RE:West Indies were 100 times more authentic than Ausies at any time
by . on Oct 14, 2007 01:16 AM
they are not winning merely due to sledging but sledging lowers the respect they would have earned from the opponents or public.
RE:West Indies were 100 times more authentic than Ausies at any time
by Surag Singh on Oct 14, 2007 08:01 PM
They back their sledging with power packed performances! What a silly reason!
