india will loose this match due to following reasons : 1. Pathetic selection like saha who is by profession wicket kipper is doing duty of fielder in covers for rohit sharma. 2. Only experienced person like Sachin is having poor record against South africa . He avaergaes 28 in last 8 test matches against them . 3. Dhoni is under immense pressure to save India's no.1 test ranking . 4. Zaheer is not finding better partner to penetrate in South african batting order . Ishant Sharma is flop show. 5. Murli Vijay is opening batsman is forced to play no.3 position for which requires specialist like dravid, kallis and numerous experince against like steyn, morkell 6. Spin attack is weaker due to not in form Harbhajan so as out of form and inexperienced middle order. But it will show loopholes in team selection and overall the inability of our selectors to select the proper team for battle for this no.1 spot.It will remind us what Mohinder Amernath said 2 decades ago as selectors are bunch of jokers. The selections and decisions made by earlier committee of Dilip Vengasarkar was really ruthless and wise.
Re: Re: India will loose this match !
by yogesh Puranik on Feb 07, 2010 09:55 PM
1. Rohit Sharma and Saha can not be replacement for the caliber of Dravid , Laxman . You need pure test batsmen to replace them and not 20-20 specialist like Rohit. 2. How the spinners will win the match for us if our inexperienced batsmen did not put decent score against like likes steyn, mokell.It is joint team effort required to take 20 wickets. Srikant and company, your days are over as selectors with this series .
The pitches in INDIA of late has become bowlers nightmare.BCCI UNDER the no 1 corrupt politician should open the purse and hire consultant for piches to prepare sportive pitches which will give equel opportunities for both batsman and bowler.Unless some miracle happens I sure that India will bat for 2 days and score around 600 which means a Draw once again.The same will be the case in 2 nd TEST also.It is a shame for BCCI and they will never bother since SHARATH PAWAR looks and behave like a Buffallo in the rain.This idiot is advicing people not to take Sugar for good health since the Sugar prices are sky Rocketing due to his Understanding with Sugar Barons.Long live India with great Politicians like PAWAR and Cong cronies under Sonia Maino.
Re: Re: state of pitches
by ASHISH KUMAR on Feb 07, 2010 09:30 PM
All north indian bowlers eg, sharma, mishra,bhajji,singh etc are useless & will be not be effective on any pitch. They continue in team only due to closeness with politicial & regional captain dhobi. Only match winners bowlers are Kumble/Zaheer khan & match winner batsman Sachin/dravid/laxman/sehwag. All of them are either from south or Maharshtra/Gujrat except sehwag. All north indian including dhobi & his banar sena is useless. only good for talking in press. BTW I am also a NI but true sports loving Indian & hence not biased. Jai Hind
Re: No 1 team when playing against bangladesh
by krishna rm on Feb 07, 2010 09:20 PM
Just after seeing one bad day, don't make such senseless comments. India won the last 5 Test series in a dominant fashion without a single defeat. Those teams include Australia, Newzealand, Srilanka,England & finally Bengladesh.. India in present form is the best team in the world, no doubt.....
Amit Mishra is at loss against quality teams. Last time he bowled whole day against Srilanka and could not take a wicket. Ojha was brought the next tests and India won both tests. Against Bangladesh Ojha was sidelined again and Mishra was given first chance. He could take wickets against weak Bangladesh. But in the next test Dhoni brought Ojha and he showed his quality. Lot of brouhaha was created about why Mishra was dropped and Ojha played. Again Mishra was brought in test against South Africa and he could not take a wicket after bowling for two days. So why the selectors are neglecting Ojha and giving preference to Mishra again and again ?
Re: Bring back Ojha
by Rahul Verma on Feb 07, 2010 09:01 PM
Hello 'Hot'. On a test match's 1st day, I have not seen spinners except Warne/Kumble/Murli's skills to bother the batsmen. Atleast Mishra contained the runs. Not to compare Ojha and Mishra but your attack on Mishra is uncalled for he has performed well in whatever chance has been given to him. He is still new and we shd wait as it happened with Warne the great.
Re: Re: Bring back Ojha
by Sameer on Feb 08, 2010 06:22 AM
he is new ? Mishra is new ? I mean honestly ? Its been like 2 years since he debuted. And he is still new ? Wow what logic
