to chase score close to 300 runs is always difficult.As Yuvi not fit someone up the order needed to play fast inning to maintain the RR. Viru departed early and sachin was not able to play fast, pressure came to Gambhir and before he could settled sachin & powerplay both are over. Virat is good player but not strokeplayer as Raina or Yuvi and to maintain righthand lefthand combination Virat got chance before Raina. Gambhir and Virat made a good partnership but at slow strike rate. RRR mounted up and india needed heroic effort by someone and that couldn't happened . Result India lost the match. In my view Viru and Gambhir should open the inning( as Gambhir & Viru opening pair is the best in current time) to take the advantage of powerpaly. To chasing high scoring match RRR should be maintained from the start of match. Because it is always difficult for batsman coming down the order to settle if RRR is high. And probabilty of wining such match is very less.
although praveen n bhajji played well with the bat, both needs to b dropped for their failure in bowling.
atleast, praveen proved that he can also bat a little. while in A tours, he used to open the batting, n in intnl matches, his bating records sound just better than munafs n nehras.
Re: praveen n bhajji
by Md Ahmed on Oct 25, 2009 11:01 PM
If harbhajan cant bowl good spin even on indian pitches then wat for he is playing. mishra should be given a chance.
Re: Re: Re: praveen n bhajji
by ashish on Oct 26, 2009 08:46 AM
Wow that really hurted Mi Psycho.. I am glad I pinch the right nerve.
Slave is called slave and nothing wrong with it. P-O-R-K-I who is Aussie S-L-A-V-E.. You haven't done nothing but criticized every little thing about India, Indian cricket and everything pertaining to India..
By the way Traitor is not the word for you. You're Aussie S-L-A-V-E
Re: Re: Some Facts
by rohit on Oct 25, 2009 10:44 PM
Ashish, Because of Dhoni they r in the team and getting rotated. They cannot play more than 7 overs in a mtch after that they will give the gifts to the opponents.
Re: Re: Re: Some Facts
by ashish on Oct 25, 2009 10:48 PM
Rohit, My point is Dhoni promotes himself up the order and takes forever to setle himself. Even after he is settled, he expects new batsman to start slogging while he keeps his end up.
You can even see in this match. Dhoni was settled and India needed 120 oidd runs in 15 overs. Raina just came to cris in Powerplay and Rains had to go slog because Dhoni was just trying to rotate strike. I don't really blame Raina for loosing his wicket.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Some Facts
by rohit on Oct 25, 2009 10:53 PM
See Dhoni is playing like Dravid, no team cannot afford two Dravids. What Kohli did u have seen. What is the guarantee that raina would have won match for us. Even he plays rash shot in a innings.You cant say he is new in this team.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Some Facts
by ashish on Oct 25, 2009 11:02 PM
I think Dhoni is playing Selfish and Dravid was playing Sefless. Given a choice, I will take Drvaid over Dhoni in this team
Kohli is young and bit arrogant, but I do think Raina is class. He is young and he has played many rash shots and many others established cricketers do the same..
There is no guarantee in Cricket. The best one can do is plan it well and execute and hope for the best..
Re: Re: Re: Re: Some Facts
by Against Pseudos on Oct 26, 2009 05:09 AM
Ashish
Blasphemy..... !!!...
:)
If I had uttered those golden words you just wrote above, then I sure would be labelled a traitor, slave and all sorts of nice complimentary phrases by you .... :)
Curious now what you'd be calling yourself now... :)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Some Facts
by ashish on Oct 26, 2009 08:48 AM
Hey, we debate openenly on what's right and wrong with our team, unlike you AUSSIE S-L-A-V-E always praising Aussie on every little thing.
Even Pontng get Booed in England, that's Indians and Indian media fault in your opinion..
Go pick that left over bread from your masters dish.. LOL
its a good begining though India lost the match, but lost it after a strong battle...unlike those days when sachin's wicket falls, rest of the wickets fall as nine pins... today the tail wagged to such an extent that it will make Aussies re-think their strategies. Hope India learns its lessons from this encounter to put up a better performance in the rest of the matches and emerge as a winner!! 3 cheers to the indian team...
Re: Re: lesson in loss
by Nandakumar Manavalan on Oct 25, 2009 10:18 PM
may be, but at the end of the day...its our Indian team, so lets also be optmistic about their upcoming performances. If u wanna call it Luck by chance, so be it and let this "luck by chance" become the "luck by choice" and we "Indian Team" win this series...way say??
Re: Re: Re: lesson in loss
by rohit on Oct 25, 2009 10:28 PM
Do u say same thing abt hockey,football,tennis,kabbadi, etc "our team ". Why? because in cricket u understand potential of each player. So u need to understand the potential of our cricket team which is too low from Aussies. What u r saying is height of hopelessness.
Re: Re: Re: lesson in loss
by ashish on Oct 25, 2009 10:35 PM
Against Pseudos is P-O-R-K-I-S-T-A-N-I, who does nothing but constantly criticizing with his loaded Sarcasm
Re: lesson in loss
by vinay on Oct 25, 2009 10:30 PM
battle was already lost by ind by losing 7 wkts. it was only the gap of losing that was reduced by bhajji n praveen.
Re: Replyy
by nobel on Oct 25, 2009 10:14 PM
Right we only need a quality bowler, batsmen and and quality fielder. Rest of work can be done by the selecters sitting in the gallery.
Re: Re: Replyy
by rohit on Oct 25, 2009 10:23 PM
Pls tell me abt uality bowlers. Except Zaheeer i dont think any one is better bowler. See few our last matches result we r always chasing total around 300. Wht u say?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Replyy
by rohit on Oct 25, 2009 10:32 PM
So we should always play with teams like Zim, WI,Holland,Bangladesh, etc. Then they will become great. Players become great or good quality when they perform against tough opponents.
our lower order fightback is not consistent to call this a close match.. it was just one of those days that they didn't get out.. the match was lost much before itself..
Re: fgd
by rohit on Oct 25, 2009 10:02 PM
Even dhoni believes they have lost this match in 3rd power play.Aussies were just giving practise to there bowlers. As Brett lee is already in form. Pls watch Highlights. It was pure luck.
Bhajji and PK almost took India to victory. Even though India lost the match, the fightback towards the end must have lifted the team's spirits and hopefully will fire them to do better in the rest of the series.
Re: Not bad, great fightback in the end
by rohit on Oct 25, 2009 09:56 PM
Sameer itwas not a fightback. Even dhoni believes they have lost this match in 3rd power play.Aussies were just giving practise to there bowlers. As Brett lee is already in form. Pls watch Highlights. It was pure luck.
Re: Some Questions for Ponting
by rohit on Oct 25, 2009 09:57 PM
Even dhoni believes they have lost this match in 3rd power play.Aussies were just giving practise to there bowlers. As Brett lee is already in form. Pls watch Highlights. It was pure luck.
Re: Some Questions for Ponting
by Sameer Bhagwat on Oct 25, 2009 09:53 PM
Good point. I looked at the scorecard and noticed that Lee had bowled only 6 overs. Unless he was injured or semi injured it doesn't make sense for him to not bowl his full quota of overs.
Re: Re: Some Questions for Ponting
by ashish on Oct 25, 2009 11:05 PM
True.. He could have been injured, or else he would have bowled last over. The game was on line for Aussie and they would have have brought their best bowler to bowl last over had he been fit
Re: Re: Some Questions for Ponting
by ashish on Oct 25, 2009 11:07 PM
True.. He probably was injured, or else he would have bowled the last over. The game was on the line for Aussie and they would have have brought their best bowler to bowl the last over had he been fit
Re: Re: Some Questions for Ponting
by rohit on Oct 25, 2009 09:57 PM
Even dhoni believes they have lost this match in 3rd power play.Aussies were just giving practise to there bowlers. As Brett lee is already in form. Pls watch Highlights. It was pure luck of Bhajji and Praveen.
