Let us take the SA tour. Zaheer misses the first Test against SA and the Indians give up 500 runs with the SA batting playing havoc because of Zaheer's absence.
It then manages to win the next Test but could not get to SA's tailenders in the 3rd Test to win the Test series.
The series is a draw with India maintaining the number one status. The 1-day series saw the missing of seniors because the WC was around and India's bowling attack was not the same in the WC as it was in the SA 1-day series.
So it ended up picking Piyush Chawla who has not bowled much in international cricket. A blunder which was again covered up by the Seniors by winning the Cup.
The WI tour starts with complacent Indian team which is over-confident but lack proper integration of youngsters. It lost ranking points in the one day series and also in the Test series. Had they won points in the series they could have held on to the points for the English tours. Rahane with a batting average of 67 was missing and Varun Aaron who hit 153kph in a domestic match was never in the picture.
The England tour was a true Test and without Sehwag and Zaheer, even with them was going to be tough against a well prepared English side.
Overall the crunching of SA, World Cup, WI and English conditions caused this debacle and were careless to not win matches they were suppose to losing points in the process.
If this is the performance of senior players and tested players ..., then why not bring in totally new players who have potential for serving Indian team in future
like :
Cheteshwar Pujara Badrinath Virat Kohli (In tests , I mean)
Pankaj Singh (come on , give a chance to highest wicket taker in kast Ranji) Umesh Yadav R.Ashwin
I wonder where has Sudeep Tyagi gone. (Remember the new Delhi ODI against Sri Lanka . When he came to bowl after 20 overs, the ball bounced so-uch that Sri Lankans chickened out and math was abandoned.)
i just dnt know why sreesaanth is given so many chances he has falied again and again and again and india is loosing again and again but still he is selected for the 4th test ahead of munaf patel who has been the spearhead of the indian attack in west indies.............it clearly reflects that sreesanth is a gay and he is sleeping with dhoni and sum of the selectors to stay in the side and i dont see any improvmnt in his performance either ............i can see ishant sharma and rp singh bowling with the line and length and the moment sreesanth was brought in the attack the pressure was released from the english side and clearly munaf patel is a much much better bowler than sree....................
Poor diet no meat.The main reason india didnot,doesnot and will not have genuine fast bowler because reluctance of including red meat in their diet.Pakistan had Sarfaraj ,Imran,wasim,waqar,Shoib Akhtar and many many more.Similarly West indies had their deadly fasties And same is the case witj England and Aus.By eating Daal Chawal,parantha,Idli Or Sambar u cannot produce World Class Fast Bowlers U can only produce Venkatesh Prasad or Mohanty atmost   Â
The SOB's in BCCi knew from South Africa tour that India weakness is good tall Fast bolwers and AH at BCCi never focused on searching those 3-4 new bowlers .... at the end those small useless slow swing bowlers are called in England tour itself....No new good fast bowlers talent searched only thing searched was making more money money......
Re: Re: dud
by Avinash on Aug 19, 2011 11:20 AM
surely the bookies and SOB's at BCCI have made lot of money.....who knows these AH may have sold to England the No.1position THE ONLY thing to cheer for English as host/creator of cricket after a long long time
Outcome of the series and our fall from the mantle is already known with wider and humiliating margins of defeats. Why then to discuss the same points again and again? I feel there is NO POINT. Please devote your columns for other sports events.
Finally the so called ESPN experts have realised that Indian bowling is weak. Everyone else said that by day 2 of 1st test. Only the ESPN experts have realised it now !!!
Rains will help India salvage a draw without any play. Dhoni and company will be morally justified and encouraged to sign more advt contracts and commercials on return,. Also the Indian govt will be considering itself exonerated when they bestow the top state awards on the Indian players like the Padma Shri, Padma Vibhushan etc. Wow how good that feels. Don’t mind the three test loss! Gods be blamed for not bringing rains in those tests!!
