Now a days t20 are appearing too boring , after some days they will disppear, and player like y.pathan will suffer , bcz they are made only to play 20 over matches
Re: Australia smells blood
by wizardo id on Jul 14, 2009 07:55 AM
well, they smelt blood, but couldnt do a damn thing because they dont have mcgrath and warne. now they will have to labour and mill and grind like all other teams.
Re: Re: Australia smells blood
by Against Pseudos on Jul 14, 2009 08:10 AM
Interesting that you need a Mcgrath and a Warne to take half a wicket each?.... :)
PS: Since only one wicket was left standing, that's all McGrath and Warne would have received... isn't it?.... :)
Ponting instead of ruing over the fact that England wasted time should ask his bowlers to do their job better. The bottomline fact is that his current crop is not as good as his previous ones. He had nearly 12 overs to dispatch the last partnership. He wasted those overs by bowling a part-timer Marcus North.
Re: Ponting should accept fact that his bowlers are not upto the
by Against Pseudos on Jul 14, 2009 05:54 AM
BP:
;-).... wow... look who is giving lectures?.... :)
So instead of shouting yourself hoarse about Sydney 2007, you could very well have asked our own heroes to have played sensibly in that last Clark over instead of falling like ninepins..... isn't it?.... :)
Re: Re: Ponting should accept fact that his bowlers are not upto
by binoj peter on Jul 14, 2009 11:57 PM
What I was trying to say was that Ponting and aussies should start to accept the fact that they have come down from the status of a great Test playing team who always wins to be counted alongwith lesser teams like South Africa, England and India who wins sometimes and loses sometimes. But he is always after finding some reason for their losses. For example, after series loss against India, most aussies were complaining in the forum that the Sydney controversy and way in which ACB dealt with it, Indian players wrong attitude etc were the reasons for their loss. What I meant was they should start accepting defeat gracefully and not think that they are still the great.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Ponting should accept fact that his bowlers are n
by binoj peter on Jul 15, 2009 08:39 AM
sorry I used the term defeat in the context of series against us not this test. This was a setback for Aussies as they really thought that they had the match in hand and Ponting cannot just digest the fact that his bowlers were good enough and his captaincy decisions didn't work well. So he tries to find reasons.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ponting should accept fact that his bowlers a
by binoj peter on Jul 15, 2009 08:50 AM
or else why does he want to comment on something that umpires will take care of if there was something wrong. I have heard no other captains making big issue out of such trivial issues.
Re: Re: Ponting should accept fact that his bowlers are not upto
by binoj peter on Jul 14, 2009 11:09 PM
Mr.Against Pseudos, I never believed that India is a great Test team until recently. The three heroes that fell to Clarke were Harbhajan, RP Singh and Ishant Sharma. I would say that Harbhajan should have handled the pressure. But not RP Singh who just had nearly 10 match test experience and Ishant Sharma who had 3 match experience. But our Kumble who has good match experience was stranded at the crease unbeaten on 45. But it was wrong decisions against Dravid, Ganguly and Dhoni that brought us into that situation. Ponting thought that the same will work against Panesar and Anderson who I think both have more than 35 match test experience. But we weren't that bad either in saving a test. Our own tail ender Sreesanth gave good company to Dhoni for tenth wicket for five overs to save the Lord's test in 2007. It doesn't happen always.
Re: Re: Ponting should accept fact that his bowlers are not upto
by subrata ghosh on Jul 14, 2009 11:10 AM
hey you phhuking "isn't it" one liner..shut the phuck up and get lost
Re: potting's carrier soon coming to an
by Suresh Dongre on Jul 13, 2009 05:54 PM
Ponting need another Mcgrath/Shane to take those wkts, else it will continue.
Re: Re: Re: potting's carrier soon coming to an
by targetz on Jul 14, 2009 09:10 AM
AP, Perhaps you didn't notice the slash between the names put by SD, which means 'OR' and not 'AND'
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: potting's carrier soon coming to an
by targetz on Jul 14, 2009 09:27 AM
Don't read between the lines, brother. Have I seconded SD's thoughts anywhere in my comment? I just brought to your notice the slash put by SD between the names, since your logic of half a wicket each was based on 'AND' and not 'OR'. Personally, I feel that if Macgrath AND Shane were still there, the England's 2nd innings wouldn't have lasted till lunch on the 5th day. And I'm not even getting into what could have happened in the 1st. McGrath and Warne are not just great bowlers. They were, and had they been continuing, would still have been the greatest! I have always believed that Lee is not as great as one makes him out to be. It was McGrath that made him look good. The tight line and length maintained by McG on one end, frustrated the batsmen, and Lee with his pace would do the rest. And now that McG is not there, one can see where Lee is.
Once again it shows that Ponting is an ordinary captain. The logic is that you need one good ball to dismiss the tailenders and not as many balls as you can bowl. Instead of going for Ben Hilfenhaus or Mitchell Johnson he went for Marcus North to bowl as many balls. North did well by bowling many balls but none of them making batsmen play.
Re: Ponting an ordinary captain
by Suresh Dongre on Jul 13, 2009 05:57 PM
He is ordinary captain since begining, but bcoz of other great players was winning games for ausis. Now his true ability shows he is an ordinary.
Re: Ponting an ordinary captain
by vinay on Jul 13, 2009 03:07 PM
true. raghu. ponting has by now lost his captaincy skills. its diminishing with the passage of time, no innovative ideas coming from him. fresh ideas r required for ausis.
Re: Re: Ponting an ordinary captain
by ashish on Jul 14, 2009 12:10 AM
something that he never had. Enough intellect instill such skill set and it never gets diminished, but get sharpened. To say more politely, Ponting is a great batsman and that's about it..
Re: Re: Ponting an ordinary captain
by kalpesh shah on Jul 13, 2009 03:23 PM
agp.psu., again potting looked helpless desire of winning at any cost missing, your comment pl.
