The fundamental flaws in Indian team are 1. Mukund is Not suitable as opener he just came in b'cos srikant is the selector. 2. harbhajan is not a learner so not suitable in eleven. 3. Dhoni is not a leader who leads from the front. 4. Our bowlers are lazy who get tired after few spells n are not even capable of finishing of the tailenders. 5. Sachin has never rose to the occasion. 6. raina n Yuvraj are still milk sukcing babies in test matches even after becoming 25 yr old men.
Re: There are fundamental flaws in Indian team
by mahesh waran on Aug 02, 2011 03:37 PM
Dude we lost the match I agree but some of your points are baseless.
1) Abinav Mukund is the next best opening batsman available in India at this moment. Please check Cricinfo for further details. 2) Harbhajan , lets see. 3) Dhoni is woefully out of form, but I think he has done reasonably good in other forms and has led the team many a times as a skipper with some innovative ideas.
Re: Re: There are fundamental flaws in Indian team
by ramakrishnan s on Aug 02, 2011 04:29 PM
The fact that mukund is `the nest best opening batsman' as u say shows the pathetics standard of our domestic tournament. His deficiency was exposed against england.
The show by the Indian team has been pathetic. Dhoni blames it on too much cricket. But then who asked them to play IPL. Was it the money or was it BCCI. May be if Dhone refuses to play IPL for Chennai Super Kings, then he may not be captain any more, as Mr Srinivasan will ensure that he is thrown out. How come we want Sachin to get Bharat Ratna, when his priority is to play IPL and skip the Windies series. Gambhir can play IPL with injuries but he cannot play the test with a blow on his arm. Not sure how bad each of these injuries are. The team has lost its killer instinct, by recalling Bell. It is this instinct which made us become a good team under Ganguly. Also, let us remember, we became number 1 team, because Australia team is in decline. Else, we would be nowhere. the Team under Ganguly was a far better team, man for man, but then there was a Australia which was in a different league.
There is nothing to worry, and do hue and cry, as every team goes in bad phase. By strong determination the bad phase is eliminated. Yesterday I have seen the interview of Dhoni, and the good thing I found that his face expression was totally of confidence despite of two defeats. That is the quality he is possessing.
Re: MS Dhoni
by mahesh waran on Aug 02, 2011 03:39 PM
Thanks a lot dude. At least one person who is thinking like me. We will do some changes and hopefully we will play better next time. People should understand England are playing in their home ground. Anderson and Broad are masters only in their home turf.
It is needless to mention that Harbhajan is the only test ranking orthodox world class test spinner till date. Even in the last two tests he bowled extremely well but without wicket (mainly because of bad fielding of indian fielders and poorest poor wicket keeping against off spin by captain Dhone). Still in my opinion he is the best spinner between the two team. In addition, he has been batting very sincerely recently. We can still remember his most exciting match saving (one one dayer and another one test match) hundreds when our most so called star starded Indian cricket team on the verge of certain defeat. In one occassion he forced opponent to draw the game and in the other match India won the match with the help of his superb batting. Even, yesterday he had been playing superb with great guts. We the Indians should not forget his countless excellent bowling spells in countless matches. But Sachin, Rahul, Laxman are given heroic ovation when they make a ton after waisting 10/15 innings. See the performance of these senior players. What is their contributions? Could they save a single match inspite of the fact that the WALL RAHUL made century ( crossing 34 centruries of Gavaskar )or Laxman or Sachin? No one could save India. It is better not to speak about our skipper Dhone. He must be immediately dropped from the team. As, he is neither a test standard wicket keeper, nor a test stamdard batsman. And captaincy? Luck is not a guaramteed.
Re: VAJJI'S MATCH SAVING HUNDREDS ARE ALREADY FORGOTTEN? shame..
by taklu on Aug 02, 2011 03:13 PM
Yes you're right he was unlucky for dropped catches(also bcci's stance against drs for lbw further robbed him of two wickets) But unfortunately he's a confidence bowler , he would've been different had chances been taken off his bowling.
It is very easy to criticize the batsman, but do we have bowlers. The pitch at tent bridge was 250 runs per eannings. And first eanning should hv been over at 150 runs. with 250-300 runs in 2nd & 3rd eanning, India should hv been left with 100-150 runs to chase in 4th. But DO WE HAVE bowlers. Ishant 1/4, Srisanth 1/4, Praveen, 2/5 & Harbhajan 1/10 bowler. In toto we were playing with 1 Bowler only. We are lucky to be whacked by 300 odd runs only.
India actually needs a proper spinner who can bowl on all type of pitches... A good spinner will be effective in all pitches. That's why Shane Warne was so good. Shane Warne did not depend on India or Sub-continent to pick wickets. So, its all plain bullshit talk about spinners succeeding only in India and India has full of spinners. The fact is, Indian bowlers can't bowl too fast and that's why they attempt to rotate the ball and become average-spinners (at child level).
The fast bowlers from India have done reasonably well off late, the problem is with the spinners. A proper attacking spinner would have seen off the England batting after the efforts from fast bowlers
Re: Re: The land of spinners...
by hawaldar on Aug 02, 2011 02:56 PM
I agree to your point maybe a few years back. But now, Indian fast bowling has improved considerably. They have been very consistently putting opposition on mat. So a spinner should also contribute in that sense. I also agree that India probably need a tear away fast bowler to rip the opposition off. But before that, they also need a proper spinner
