As we saw the bowlers throwing their arms wayward (Praveen Kumar bowling short, Ishant bowling on the pads, Piyush chawla...eeekkkk..same stuff on the pads umpteenth time!!), I didnt find Dhoni comign to bowler even once and telling them what to do... off late I see that as a wicketkeeper he doesnt even take the pain to move towards the stumps as fileders are shying at stumps in short singles...he came to the stumps almost after the first run was finished and when the batsman take the second run...
Lazy, pathetic, a rascal of the first order...only doing Politics to keep Ganguly and Dravid out of the team...
Look at the games he played...didntplay Ojha...kicked Tiwary and kept on giving chances to Utthappa...what value do we have of Yusuf Pathan? Kitana din chalega yeh saab...
RE:dhoni as a captain
by Bunty on Jul 03, 2008 01:06 PM
hmm.. piyush is waste against subcontinent teams. Pathan bother have shown alarming loss of form after IPL money. if Ishant does not improve, he should be dropped, bring in Munaf and sreeshant.
in the name of having allrounders in the team, v r sacrificing our bowling. dont keep a player as allrdr, who cant bat or esp bowl his full quota of overs. an allrdr has to b a bowling allrdr who can claim his place merely as bowler and his batting can b a bonus, but dont include him merely for his batting ignoring his bowling blunders.
RE:all-rounders
by Bunty on Jul 03, 2008 01:02 PM
u r absolutely right. it is high time we go back to bowler we constantly ignored munaf patel. he is wicket taking bowler. in fact he fielded well in IPL. his fitness can be improved by a trainer.
RE:all-rounders
by vinay on Jul 03, 2008 01:07 PM
true. munaf is better line n length bowler esp in odi. he is the better option. n his fielding is overly blamed esp by biased gavaskar.
How is that even India has a bowling coach things are not improving? Even though India is good on fielding front our bowlers are giving runs.Venky please tell our bowlers to bowl wicket to wicket and our fielders will do the rest.
RE:RE:VENKY WHERE ARE YOU?
by NaveenKumar KM on Jul 03, 2008 01:05 PM
Venky himself was a very poor bowler who never blowed wicket to wicket... so how can he teach someone else to bowl very well???
RE:VENKY WHERE ARE YOU?
by Bunty on Jul 03, 2008 12:56 PM
venky is doing fine job. he used to give lose balls to saeed anwar and jayasuriya to hit sixes. same art he is passing on to boys.
Here is Dhonis' statistic from me. It proves that Dhoni didn't have contribution to win in CB series. He just made his tally full of runs.
Match number-Runs-Balls-Result
1-37-61-No result 2-88-124-No result 4-17-54-India won in low scoring match. Brilliant performance from bowlers. 5-26-31-India loss to sri lanks D/L method 7-37-50-India loss to Aus. 8-50-68-India won Srilanka. He played well 10-36-66- India loss Aus. 11-not bat-India won Srilanka due to bowlers & 63each from sachin&gambhir 1st final-12-15-India won due to upper order batsman. 2nd final-37-36-India won due to bowlers & old man.
RE:@ hariharan
by SachinTheGreat on Jul 03, 2008 12:55 PM
Sachin Tendulkar scored 117 in 1st Final and 91 in 2nd Final, BTW that old man is 1000 times better than entire Team put together.......................
RE:@ hariharan
by SachinTheGreat on Jul 03, 2008 01:00 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA, I am no angry, I was just pointing out that India won CB Tri-Series only bcoz Sachin Tendulkar scored 117 and 91 in 2 Finals, Even Ricky Ponting accepted that Sachin Tendulkar was the Difference between both Teams................
RE:@ hariharan
by Avinash Kadam on Jul 03, 2008 01:06 PM
Guys, I was fortunate to see Sachin's innings in Australia (Test and ODI). He is the greatest. One should see to beleive the standing ovation he gets from the Aussie crowd. The Indians at the stadium chanting Sachheeeen ...Sachin is just mind boggling. Cheers!
By seeing yesterdays performance by team India bowlers,one cant think about their success in AUS.But real fact is even wicket is flat,PAK and SRI bowers are able to take wicket and our bowlers are simply looks flat.Piyush chawala,Pravin Kumar and Ishant sharma should not allow to play match on flat wicket untill and unless they cant learn how to bowl on flat tracks.Infact RP is better also Munaf Patel and Ajit Agarkar is good on flat tracks.
RE:MISERABLE BOWLING
by vinay on Jul 03, 2008 12:48 PM
rp shud b tried. ishant is good on bouncy tracks like ausi. but on flat wkts, he has to improve although with his speed, he can.
RE:MISERABLE BOWLING
by Bunty on Jul 03, 2008 12:44 PM
munaf is a good bowler,he bowled wel for RR. but he is not being considered becoz of his fitness and fielding.
