Both captains were very honest in their pre match press conference.... India showed that they wil find it difficult to retain N0.1 status... Also Bangaldesh is a ordinary team which cannot draw a test match at home.
An extraordinary team defeated an ordinary team by 113 runs that too on the 5th afternoon!I congratulate the Bangla team for their valiant display. They made Sehwag eat his words and gave the Indians a run for their money. No one imagined that they would take 20 Indian wickets in a test, that too of a team that boasts of the strongest batting side of the likes of Sehwag, Gambhir, Dravid, Sachin, Laxman, Yuvaraj! Inspite of winning the match I would have given the man of the match award to Gambhir who was instrumental in getting out score over 400 in the 2nd innings. First innings was inconsequential when both sides scored the same amount of runs; or to that boyish looking wicket-keeper batsman of bangladesh who (mercilessly)hit our bowlers and scored the fastest hundred of the match. But the juries are always sympathetic to that old guard called Sachin. Given the smallest chance the award goes to sachin. Anyway our 'extraordinaries' beware of the 'ordinaries.' Sehwag,You may bite the dust if you are over confident, and will be the laughing stock if you express your confidence!.
Re: India-Bangladesh First Test
by Milind Tekale on Jan 21, 2010 10:52 PM
Lot of play missed due to bad light ..else it would have been win on 4th day.
Re: India-Bangladesh First Test
by abhilash mulky on Jan 21, 2010 10:36 PM
Sehwag can hold his head straight as India won the match.....Mr.KPB, Sehwag's comment can be considered as a strategy which Aussis normally use.
Re: India-Bangladesh First Test
by Against Pseudos on Jan 22, 2010 08:08 AM
Balasubrahmanya:
Thanx for treating the match as 2 back to back ODIs.... :)
Whilst I agree with you on the "Sehwagism" of the Indian captain, I completely disagree with you on how you converted this Test match into 2 ODIs.... :)
Re: India-Bangladesh First Test
by MANAV THAKKAR on Jan 21, 2010 10:51 PM
I believe u are making an emotional statment without any logic. Sehwag had made vary valid comments before the match. But as thay say that anything is possible in a game ,India got out cheaply. But had it not been that extraordinary knock by the master blaster , india would be playing defensive throughout the match but it did not happen . Secondly , had weather not played the bad role , india would have finished the match on 4th day before the Tea . Its very simple analysis . tendulker got the man of the match as only he deserved it and no body else.
Re: India-Bangladesh First Test
by chintan jhunjhunwala on Jan 21, 2010 10:31 PM
please note that the first three days play was curtailed due to bad light .second day hardly 30 overs could be bowled.
Re: India-Bangladesh First Test
by MANAV THAKKAR on Jan 21, 2010 10:50 PM
I believe u are making an emotional statment without any logic. Sehwag had made vary valid comments before the match. But as thay say that anything is possible in a game ,India got out cheaply. But had it not been that extraordinary knock by the master blaster , india would be playing defensive throughout the match but it did not happen . Secondly , had weather not played the bad role , india would have finished the match on 4th day before the Tea . Its very simple analysis . tendulker got the man of the match as only he deserved it and no body else.
Re: India-Bangladesh First Test
by MANAV THAKKAR on Jan 21, 2010 10:49 PM
I believe u are making an emotional statment without any logic. Sehwag had made vary valid comments before the match. But as thay say that anything is possible in a game ,India got out cheaply. But had it not been that extraordinary knock by the master blaster , india would be playing defensive throughout the match but it did not happen . Secondly , had weather not played the bad role , india would have finished the match on 4th day before the Tea . Its very simple analysis . tendulker got the man of the match as only he deserved it and no body else.
Re: India-Bangladesh First Test
by abhilash mulky on Jan 21, 2010 10:36 PM
Sehwag can hold his head straight as India won the match.....Mr.KPB, Sehwag's comment can be considered as a strategy which Aussis normally use.
Re: India-Bangladesh First Test
by Mr Lee on Jan 21, 2010 10:32 PM
losing the match from a winning position. that is what makes bangladesh an ORDINARY team.
India started off poorly on Day 1 of the test, but then came back strongly and compltely controlled the proceedings of the remaining four days. That is what makes India a good team, though any good performance against bangladesh should be talked about much.
Re: Re: MOM
by thagadappa on Jan 22, 2010 01:40 PM
I have to only laugh at your analytical thinking. questions are asked to make you think from a different angle. if you can't think then you are real secular person :) like Rahul baba, MMS, Sonia
Re: MOM
by Harry on Jan 21, 2010 10:32 PM
I dont agree with you here. If Sachin wouldn\'t have played under pressure in first innings, then India would have been down with the lead for Bangladesh and we could have scrumbled in second innings after seeing the deficit of over 100 runs, which we have seen can make u loose the match. Sachin played in conditions which were not good for batting. Gambhir played in good batting conditions and Amit Mishra didnt pick crucial wickets.
Re: MOM
by Mr Lee on Jan 21, 2010 10:36 PM
do not over react. the century by Sachin in the first innings was more important. If not for his innings, India would have been bundled out for less than 150 runs and Bangladesh would have had a 100 runs lead over us. Thigs could have been so different from there on, even leading to a defeat for the Indian team.
On the first morning, the wicket was tough to bat on and it gradually eased on by the fourth day and that is when Gambhir, Mishra, Laxman and Sehwag scored easy runs. even Bangladesh scored more than 300 runs.
Re: Re: MOM
by thagadappa on Jan 21, 2010 10:58 PM
not a good analysis..if you think Sachin scored on touch batting condition how could Sewag score 52 runs that too as an opener. don't forget that they put on 70 plus on the board before Sachin came in.
now the second innigs, if you think it was good batting track why din't sachin double century then when he was able to score a century on difficult condition(albeit 3 easy lives).
Re: Re: Re: Re: MOM
by thagadappa on Jan 22, 2010 01:33 PM
I have to only laugh at your analytical thinking. questions are asked to make you think from a different angle. if you can't think then you are real secular person :) like Rahul baba, MMS, Sonia
Re: Re: Re: MOM
by abhilash mulky on Jan 21, 2010 10:27 PM
Sachin's century in the 1st innings was crucial for our team.....hence well deserved MOM. We hav seen in the past that Sachin is hugely favoured for MOM but this time he deserves it.
Re: Re: Re: MOM
by Harry on Jan 21, 2010 10:32 PM
I dont agree with you here. If Sachin wouldn't have played under pressure in first innings, then India would have been down with the lead for Bangladesh and we could have scrumbled in second innings after seeing the deficit of over 100 runs, which we have seen can make u loose the match. Sachin played in conditions which were not good for batting. Gambhir played in good batting conditions and Amit Mishra didnt pick crucial wickets.
Re: Re: Re: MOM
by Harry on Jan 21, 2010 10:31 PM
I dont agree with you here. If Sachin wouldn't have played under pressure in first innings, then India would have been down with the lead for Bangladesh and we could have scrumbled in second innings after seeing the deficit of over 100 runs, which we have seen can make u loose the match. Sachin played in conditions which were not good for batting. Gambhir played in good batting conditions and Amit Mishra didnt pick crucial wickets.
IPL is a business conglomerate. Nothing else. this time it is the cricket - the gentlemens game. IPL can do anything for money sake. It can shift the matches to south africa without considering the self esteem of India. this time it is spoiling the Indo-Pak relation. We at international and national level trying our best to normalise relationship between the two countries politically,socially, economically and diplomatically, but this IPL is playing business outright with this deicate relationship for the sake of money. Government must put its full weight to reign in the IPL's destructive attitude toward Indo-Pak relation. this is too much in the name of cricket. Indo-Pak relation is not Lalit Modi's business theatre house, so that he can turn on or turn off any movie he likes in the name if IPL or cricket. I feel this is the consequence of giving too much freedom to format a modest game like cricket. Stop this business. We apprehend more like this in future given the attitude of the organiser's of IPL.
Re: Ban IPL
by Surjeet Singh on Jan 21, 2010 10:26 PM
i think mr. lalit modi taken right step of not letting pak players in IPL as in IPL@ season Pak players refuse to play in IPL
I Feel, Match of the match should be given to Amit mishra as he scored 64 Runs and took 7 wickets. Sachin?, I do not think, he deserves it..I am sure, most of us feel the same.
Re: Questionable Man of the Match?
by Chandrashekhar Kulkarni on Jan 21, 2010 10:08 PM
the jurors are fools. Its a pity that you were not there. Else we would have had the right decision.
Re: Questionable Man of the Match?
by Mr Lee on Jan 21, 2010 10:39 PM
do not over react. the century by Sachin in the first innings was more important. If not for his innings, India would have been bundled out for less than 150 runs and Bangladesh would have had a 100 runs lead over us. Things could have been so different from there on, even leading to a defeat for the Indian team.
On the first morning, the wicket was tough to bat on and it gradually eased on by the fourth day and that is when Gambhir, Mishra, Laxman and Sehwag scored easy runs. even Bangladesh scored more than 300 runs.
I Feel, Match of the match should be given to Amit mishra as he scored 64 Runs and took 7 wickets. Sachin?, I do not think, he deserves it..I am sure, most of us feel the same.
