It is a total failure on the part of out batsman. Dhoni's decision to bat first in an early morning due was ridiculous. Here is performance card.
1)Sehwag - As an experienced batsman playing international cricket for almost 11 years, He should have played sensibly for atleast four to five overs. Rather he wants complete fifty in 10 balls - Irresponsible 2) Gambhir - Got a very good first ball- Bad luck 3) Tendulkar- bad luck ball was directly gone to his hands. 4) Yuvraj Singh- Should have pushed the ball out of wickets with his legs rather than with bat. 5) Raina - Got a fine opportunity to show talent he just wasted it, bad play. 6) Dhoni- Got bad decision, he should have shuffled and try to run to confuse umpire, but he stood like a rock as if showing action reply 7) Jadeja - Made good use of his two lives, But he is not a big hitter of the ball consuming too many balls like Mohinder Amarnath. 8) Harbhajan Singh- He is just like a Pakistanti player ( Mr.Un-predictable) 9) Praveen Kumar- Very good series with Bat he should be promoted, atleast we got a good allrounder. But he must practice playing shots On side also. 10 & 11 - Ashis Nehra & M.M.Patel - About their batting talent less said is better. ( If 7 batsman fail to score what does a bowler can do) ( These are my personal views please bear with me and suggest me if i have written any bad thing.)
Re: Total failure
by Kenneth Anderson on Nov 09, 2009 12:38 PM
I prefer Gambir should open with Sachin and Sehwag should bat down the order at maybe 7, a good place for a pinch hitter. He is only pinch-hitting at his current position,and scoring nothing, so why dont he pinch-hit at No.7, and he can bowl too....I believe he is a good replacement for Yusuf Pathan and nobody else.
Re: Total failure
by Sharad Tiwari on Nov 09, 2009 12:48 PM
this is the worst indian side in terms of fielding (even worse than when we had madanlal, roger binny with potbelly but they had will to fight atleast) and they chucked out laxman and dravid lol ..ponting n team hitting the stumps from in field is a common sight while our players doing so must be rarest sight in this world !! Kudos ..but don't worry we will thrash Sri Lankans (I pray 4 reverse) Dhoni is trying to behave like ganguly in terms of backing up his choice..but ganguly backed Yuvi and Dhoni is backing Jadejas and Kohlis sadly..
Re: Dravid
by sunil k on Nov 10, 2009 09:57 PM
I think selectors are allready made up their mind to include him in the team for the forth coming one day series against srilanka....Dravid deffinitely will play for india in one dayers....no doubt..
Guys yet another series lost ,followed by a remarkable team spirit shown by masters of the game . Undoubtedly Australia deserve to be number 1 ,not only because they won in India but they have this never die spirit even after carrying a diminishing side with injury of entire world. Ricky ponting set standards on field and pumps up his team mates to perform . How often we have seen that a new comer comes in and springs the best of performance . Its because they are nourished and groomed very well in domestic games . Indian side on the other hand are still dependant on big names . sachin ,sehwag ,yuvraj ,dhoni ,bhaji. consider the indian team when thy didnt have yuvi ,zaheer , gambhir and sehwag in champions trophy. they were outplayed by Pakistan and SA quite easily. however ,ausies believe in performing on big events ,come whay may. Its the spirit of the game Cricket is a teamwork game ,why to rely heavily on few players. Just imagin the stuation even if members score less (without thinking of records ) the team can put up huge scores. but India thinks of 17000 of sachin but no body looks at single digit scores of yuvraj ,sehwag or gambhir. The loss in hyderabad has put a toll on indian team to win at any cost , but giving away your wickets is not the fore ,it is taking wickets and playing a common sense cricket. we cant win unless every team member start scoring continuosly. time for reality check India .
We should be having committed players like loudmouth Bajji. He is going all out to prove that his prophecy of 5-2 is going to come true. Also, he is ensuring that like a true indian committed player, he will prove Pontings prophecy of a 4-3 result wrong. Good old bajji. Why don't u take a break ? Does selectors have dearth of good spin bowlers. I think personally, I can bowl more variety spin deliveries with good control than Bajji.
Re: prophecy
by pk k on Nov 09, 2009 01:10 PM
Why is Bhajji to be blamed???? Do you know Bhajji does so much match practise?? Even when playing a actual match he practises and practises.. He is very sincere. He has no time even to put a number plate on his gaddi. Bajji u r grtttt...... (so are ur all other team mates)
Re: prophecy
by Kenneth Anderson on Nov 09, 2009 12:35 PM
Believe me, Harbhajan is no good with the ball as he is with his head....Even George Bush has more twists and turns and is a far better spinner than Harbhajan...
Re: Re: prophecy
by venkatc on Nov 09, 2009 01:14 PM
I think he can become a good cricket analyst or a very good commentator. Bajji!!!!! pls try alternative career and spare us. If we can manage with 4 part time spinners, we can go ahead with one more who can also bat. But Pity is that you would lose your lucrative advertisement revenue. You can still try out at DPL or Indian Idol programmes in television. Also , you have IPL where you can rule the roost with your other loudmouth colleague called Yuvraj Singh, who is another good for nothing player who plays well only once in 5-6 innings. It is high time that "flash "players like sehwag, yuvraj singh are removed from team. If Sehwag can score 30-40 every match and get out in nonsence fashion, I am sure that Sourav Ganguly, Dravid, Laxman too can score 30-40. Or even better try a young talent who too can manage to score as Sehwag does.
Re: Re: Series 5-2
by Ganesh on Nov 09, 2009 01:22 PM
Yes you are right Sai, and yes the same gentleman scored 49 runs in just 30 balls with massive 4s and sixers when Tendulkar just struggled to score 14 in 29 balls.
In that match (in current series only) India was chasing 286 runs something and everybody almost started leaving the ground or switched off their TV sets but that same gentleman came and blasted the balls out of the park and had Aussie captain ponting almost scratching his head (almost took India very close to a win). That was a difficult pitch to bat on and bigger ground (hard to hit sixers or 4s) when compared to Hyderabad, where a batsman (that too an opening batsman) hit 175. There it was a bowler who hit 49 runs.
Specialist batsman scoring runs is anyways an "expected" event. The batsman is anyway selected to BAT
BUT What is really praiseworthy and great is a BOWLER scoring so rapidly and almost leading team to win.
In 6th ODI at Guwahati also a bowler called PRAVEEN Kumar showed the rest of the team how to bat , scoring 54 runs in quick time within 51 balls, smashing the Aussie bowling like anything, whereas our great batsman just scored 10 runs.
Bowler scoring 54 on a pitch that is difficult to bat on (and a bigger ground) whereas specialist batsman with 450 ODIs experience behind him scoring just 10 runs (that too taking 17 balls for that - less than run a ball). This is the truth, whether we accept or not, truth remains.
Re: Team India
by Dhantannan on Nov 09, 2009 12:31 PM
some prople were lauging when i suggested praveen as opener in place of sehwag. praveen has opened for UP.
Re: Re: Team India
by rajith cherian on Nov 09, 2009 12:36 PM
he does not even know to run between wickets.... U see batsmen need a lot of common sense
