Did the author do the study for the West Indies team and Australian team during their hay days? For that matter, same study done on the English Team will certainly make an interesting study. Problem with we Indians is that we are very good at postmortem studies and are averse to preventive methods.Had India won the series in England,we will never be talking about age factor and we will be creating Gods and Gods of cricket.
I think Ban IPL is best solution for this.Players are playing with injuries in IPL because of franchisies forced them to play because they are paying for them but for playing for nation nobody force them.
Most of our wins in tests were given by Spin attacks only...I have confidence in Ashwin that he can bring some positives for the current team with his bowling!
Re: Spin attack!
by pradeep agarwal on Aug 17, 2011 01:07 PM
Calling Harbhajan a spinner is insult of the art.He has not spun the ball ever since Kumble retired & has been in side thanks to his proximity to Sachin & Dhoni.It was painful to see him bowling in first two test matches with no idea of field placement & simply trying to bowl on or outside leg stump to stop runs.He is supposedly a wicket taking bowler who has long forgotten this role which skips the attention of our chief selector who is nothing but a court jester of board.
The concern here is not age but performance. Rahul Dravid who as per the critics also falls in the old age group, but he is the only batsman that performed well in the series scoring two centuries and a few more runs in the remaining innings. While criticising the side's performance one has to focus on why India failed in its efforts atleast to defend the score and save its match. For that matter youngest lot of the side also did not perform well like Abhinav Mukund, Gatam Gambhir, Suresh Raina etc., The team for almost two to three decades has been depending one or two players for its performance like Sunil Gavaskar, Gundappa Vishwantah, Sachin Tendulkar, Dilip Venksarkar, Kapil Dev etc.,Not all contributing their might to the side if, you take any time period, except on a few occassions. Moreover India do not have any genuine alllrounder in the side. Even if you accept one batsmen scoring well and the remaining members atleast score 20-25 runs also add to the score and can easily cross 300.
Why is Ashwin not tried in tests? he should have been given a chance atleast in Westindies...Is Dhoni or selectors not interested in getting one more Tamil into the squad??/
Dhoni's so-called tactics never worked because honestly speaking, Dhonee never had any tactic at all...it was one or the other player performing in the last 3 years...Sehwag in tests, Gambhir in 2009, Kohli in ODI's this year, Raina sometime before that, Yuvraj Singh in world cup etc....That's why India won matches in the last few years.......And not because of any captaincy...captaincy is a big lie which has been perpetrated by the corrupt media...can you think beyond captaincy and count the no. of occassions when Dhoni's decision really made a difference?...if you look carefully, Dhoni had no contribution at all...Dhoni himself was the non-performer all along, quietly pocketing all glory heaped on him by a corrupt media for no reason at all...but this is where Dhoni's luck ends as it should because he is useless after all
Re: Dhoni's so called captaincy skills is a big lie
by fighter toads on Aug 17, 2011 09:54 AM
True this guy was created of media who made a hero out of nothing as is always done in india India inc wanted to apply his managerial skills in their organization now what
Re: Dhoni's so called captaincy skills is a big lie
by ajay paruthi on Aug 17, 2011 10:23 AM
Media created ve hype over his decision to bowl joginder in the last over of 2007 T20 WC. They gave credit of winning that T20 WC to this decision of Dhoni. But as a cricketer, everybody understands that that decision was not correct. India won that WC because Misbah played a wrong shot. But that shot gave stupid Dhoni the shot of his life. Its destiny, isn't it!
Re: Re: Dhoni's so called captaincy skills is a big lie
by rajkamal dubey on Aug 17, 2011 02:17 PM
exactly...such a sad situation....and that reflects the scenario everywhere ...deserving people do not get credit and upstarts rule the roost
