Problems: 1. Inshant Sharma - line and length - big problem! Bowls short invariably down the leg side or outside offstump! Doesn't make the batsman play at all! Solutions: My assessment is he isn't as talented to play at this level - we can find more! Time is up - he has been playing for like 10 years now i think. Enough is enough - can be replaced by prominent, upcoming players like may be Munaf or RP. Could Ashish Nehra have an outside chance?
2. Sreesanth: Enormous talent but wasted by lack of preparation, complacency and callous attitude! Has to improve line and concentrate on middle and off!
3. Pradeep Kumar: Talented - working hard and rewarded.
Re: Solutions rather than ridicule - Faith rather than despair!
by Abhishek Kulkarni on Aug 05, 2011 09:37 AM
5. Batting failures: All batsmen have to realise the difference in their bowling and ours - all their bowlers are making the batsman play! Their line and length is just good lenath and letting the pitch do the rest. Batsmen have to be careful because of the seam and swing movement but at the same time, punish the bad balls. We can become too defensive and play at 1 run per over. This boosts the opposition's confidence. In such a scenario (where batting is uncertain), a batsman like Sehwag can be handful scoring a quick 40-50 runs!
The other batsmen have to just apply their mind. Friends we have played on all pitches across the world and have won in Eng as well. Yes , every team is strong at home - Eng are no exception - we are as well.
Contributions welcome - abusive language isn't! Thanks Go India!
Re: Re: Solutions rather than ridicule - Faith rather than despai
by Abhishek Kulkarni on Aug 05, 2011 09:39 AM
My apologies! The sentence should read as 'We cannot become too defensive and play at 1 run per over'!!
Re: Solutions rather than ridicule - Faith rather than despair!
by Abhishek Kulkarni on Aug 05, 2011 09:37 AM
5. Batting failures: All batsmen have to realise the difference in their bowling and ours - all their bowlers are making the batsman play! Their line and length is just good lenath and letting the pitch do the rest. Batsmen have to be careful because of the seam and swing movement but at the same time, punish the bad balls. We can become too defensive and play at 1 run per over. This boosts the opposition's confidence. In such a scenario (where batting is uncertain), a batsman like Sehwag can be handful scoring a quick 40-50 runs!
The other batsmen have to just apply their mind. Friends we have played on all pitches across the world and have won in Eng as well. Yes , every team is strong at home - Eng are no exception - we are as well. Contributions welcome - abusive language isn't! Thanks Go India!
Problems: 1. Inshant Sharma - line and length - big problem! Bowls short invariably down the leg side or outside offstump! Doesn't make the batsman play at all! Solutions: My assessment is he isn't as talented to play at this level - we can find more! Time is up - he has been playing for like 10 years now i think. Enough is enough - can be replaced by prominent, upcoming players like may be Munaf or RP. Could Ashish Nehra have an outside chance?
2. Sreesanth: Enormous talent but wasted by lack of preparation, complacency and callous attitude! Has to improve line and concentrate on middle and off!
3. Pradeep Kumar: Talented - working hard and rewarded.
4. Zaheer Khan: ?????
5. Batting failures: All batsmen have to realise the difference in their bowling and ours - all their bowlers are making the batsman play! Their line and length is just good lenath and letting the pitch do the rest. Batsmen have to be careful because of the seam and swing movement but at the same time, punish the bad balls. We can become too defensive and play at 1 run per over. This boosts the opposition's confidence. In such a scenario (where batting is uncertain), a batsman like Sehwag can be handful scoring a quick 40-50 runs!
The other batsmen have to just apply their mind. Friends we have played on all pitches across the world and have won in Eng as well. Yes , every team is strong at home - Eng are no exception - we are as well. Contributions welcome - abusive language isn't! Thanks Go Ind
Problems: 1. Inshant Sharma - line and length - big problem! Bowls short invariably down the leg side or outside offstump! Doesn't make the batsman play at all! Solutions: My assessment is he isn't as talented to play at this level - we can find more! Time is up - he has been playing for like 10 years now i think. Enough is enough - can be replaced by prominent, upcoming players like may be Munaf or RP. Could Ashish Nehra have an outside chance?
2. Sreesanth: Enormous talent but wasted by lack of preparation, complacency and callous attitude! Has to improve line and concentrate on middle and off!
3. Pradeep Kumar: Talented - working hard and rewarded.
4. Zaheer Khan: ?????
5. Batting failures: All batsmen have to realise the difference in their bowling and ours - all their bowlers are making the batsman play! Their line and length is just good lenath and letting the pitch do the rest. Batsmen have to be careful because of the seam and swing movement but at the same time, punish the bad balls. We can become too defensive and play at 1 run per over. This boosts the opposition's confidence. In such a scenario (where batting is uncertain), a batsman like Sehwag can be handful scoring a quick 40-50 runs!
The other batsmen have to just apply their mind. Friends we have played on all pitches across the world and have won in Eng as well. Yes , every team is strong at home - Eng are no exception - we are as well.
Contributions welcome - abusive language isn't! Thanks Go India!
Problems: 1. Inshant Sharma - line and length - big problem! Bowls short invariably down the leg side or outside offstump! Doesn't make the batsman play at all! Solutions: My assessment is he isn't as talented to play at this level - we can find more! Time is up - he has been playing for like 10 years now i think. Enough is enough - can be replaced by prominent, upcoming players like may be Munaf or RP. Could Ashish Nehra have an outside chance?
2. Sreesanth: Enormous talent but wasted by lack of preparation, complacency and callous attitude! Has to improve line and concentrate on middle and off!
3. Pradeep Kumar: Talented - working hard and rewarded.
4. Zaheer Khan: ?????
5. Batting failures: All batsmen have to realise the difference in their bowling and ours - all their bowlers are making the batsman play! Their line and length is just good lenath and letting the pitch do the rest. Batsmen have to be careful because of the seam and swing movement but at the same time, punish the bad balls. We can become too defensive and play at 1 run per over. This boosts the opposition's confidence. In such a scenario (where batting is uncertain), a batsman like Sehwag can be handful scoring a quick 40-50 runs!
The other batsmen have to just apply their mind. Friends we have played on all pitches across the world and have won in Eng as well. Yes , every team is strong at home - Eng are no exception - we are as well.
Contributions welcome - abusive language isn't! Thanks Go India!
Dear Friends, We all know this Indian Cricket Team is going through a rough phase due to not just complacency but many factors, some of which are not within their control like injuries etc. Their performance cannot be justified. However, this about this. How did the ICT become the no.1 test team in the world? We can't completely forget about that, surely! Even no.1 teams get beaten (sometimes even worse - Australia has by innings as well)! I think every team goes through a phase - an up phase and a down phase!
We all have great, talented players who have been playing (and are well capable of playing) test cricket for the past 15-20 years - some whom the younger generation players have taken their inspiration from. This is the same team which beat Eng in Eng, SL in SL, drew with teams like Aus in Aus, SA in SA. We can't keep our memory so short and expect them to win every series - but yes they are expected to play like a world no.1 team which they aren't. Plagued by injuries, complacency the ICT needs our faith and support in order to improve upon their mistakes which they have committed. Trust these players! They can do it!
I am a professional cricketer and can honestly tell you this English team is looking extra - ordinary because we have played really bad.
Let us support the team and boost their confidence as much as possible! No matter how adverse the circumstances - keep faith, work hard and improve upon our failures!
Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, Harsha Bhogle, and Sanjay Manjarekar (mercifully absent on this tour of England) must surely count among the worst television commentators in any sport at any time. They are almost entirely content-free and Shastri's smirking tones and Gavaskar's jingoism are grating on even Indian ears. They have nothing, absolutely nothing, original or insightful to contribute from a cricketing standpoint. Worse, they are plagiarists. On the last tour of England, Ian Chappel remarked that one of the key attributes of a good wicketkeeper was the ability to anticipate the direction of the ball and move in that direction in advance, in contrast to (he said) Dhoni's and Prior's flinging themselves at the ball with no footwork. Shastri latched on to that comment and repeated it several times during that and the succeding tests as if it was his own.
Re: Espn
by taklu on Aug 04, 2011 09:02 PM
And, regarding that bumble made a valid point too, he said dhoni was constantly moving in the opposite direction as the ball was being bowled thereby widening the gap between him and 1st slip.
Re: Espn
by sunil k on Aug 04, 2011 09:59 PM
gavaskar and shasrti are BCCI's payed "chamacha's....only thing they do is chamachgiri of sachin.....when dravid scores on difficult situations, their ass burns......phalthu fellows
Re: Re: Espn
by ashwin shetty on Aug 05, 2011 12:02 PM
I think Harsha's an overrated commentator too.He might have a MBA and the best cricketing acumen,however he tends to get too personal sometimes and brings out useless topics between some serious discussions.
