Re: zaheer is a traitor
by tornado on Jan 28, 2010 07:47 AM
Poor c0w p!sss drinking hindus can never produce any good fast bowler and when a guy is doing good in field instead of concentrating on his cricket this moron hindu p!g is finding intrest in religion
I think its time for ICC to act and step forward to set right the mess that is Bangladesh, ZImbabwe and the joke that tests involving them have become. They should remove them from permanent test playing status and ask them to perform consistently against "A" level sides from all remaining test playing nations. Set a target for them saying...win this much percentage of your matches in 1 or 2 years to be considered as a test playing nation. The argument would rise that unless you play top level teams, you dont come up yourself. For that, one solution could be that every test playing "A" side should have at least 2 cricketers who have played tests before and sort of trying to get back or 1-2 recently retired cricketers. Alternatively reward some non test playing nations by moving them to test playing status if they perform well against "A" sides. Once a side has played and won at least 10 test matches ( 5 at home and 5 abroad) then make them permanent test playing nations.
Right now series involving Bangaldesh and Zimbabwe have become jokes to pad resumes. ICC can defintiely try out the "demote and promote" cycle till a nation starts playing consistently.
Re: Time for ICC to act
by fink fanther on Jan 28, 2010 07:35 AM
teams like bangladesh and zimbabwe have to learn to win. That is what is lacking from their cricket now. and yes, this can be achieved if they start playing A teams more often. The best example was bangladesh's win against a weakened WI side last year. So I agree with your basic idea.
at least, youngsters get the chance by default. now against sa. it wud hv been better that our youngsters got it against bangla but v failed in the oportunity wherein v lost our seniors like dravid laxman yuv to play against sa.
now is time to induct youngsters like 1) pujara the most prolific run scorer since he got man of the series in junior world cup. 2) pande the young lad showing good promise this season after his first ipl century. 3) badri the 'old horse' of domestic performers.
its also surprising that even the best of our bats found it difficult even to play short pitched deliveries bowled by bangla pacers.
ind's so-called best bolr zaheer. surprisingly, its only first time, that he has taken 10 wkts in a match. that shows how good our best bolr is. ind boling line up needs to b consistent in their performance for us to b no. 1 team.
