During his tenure, Team India played 90% of its International cricket on super flat pitches at home. BCCI even tampered the regular ODI series tours of Australia and SA to convert them into Test Series to take Team India to No. 1 through manipulations.
Re: Lucky Kirsten
by siva kumar on Aug 20, 2011 09:16 PM
It all happens! With all his computerised planning Bob Wolmer could not make South Africa win the world cup. So take it easy...
Re: Re: Lucky Kirsten
by India Shining on Aug 21, 2011 11:02 AM
It doesn't just "happen". MSDhobi is CaptainByLuck and everyone now knows that. This series was probably part of the DealStruck withEng forLowPerformance in the WC2011 just soIndia could win it.
Re: test ranking
by Sceptic Critic on Aug 20, 2011 07:52 PM
If they keep on including Sehwag and Tendulkar in the team, pretty soon they will be at the bottom of the table. These two players should be kicked out of the team as they are useless now. Sehwag is utterly immature. His motto is "hit out or get out" He is fit to play in kindergarten cricket. For all the noise created Tendulkar has rusted.
Re: Re: test ranking
by baragod pramoda on Aug 20, 2011 08:48 PM
Sehwag's contribution to India in becoming No. 1 ranked is huge. He brought the aggressive approach to indian batting. In Tests, he has single handedly made India win many matches. India is struggling to get new young talents. Any youngster who comes to the team takes not less than 50 matches to check whether he can play test match or not. But in other countries, 50 matches played by a player is regarded as experienced.
Re: Re: test ranking
by S Shrikanth on Aug 20, 2011 09:13 PM
I think its time for overaged Dravid, Tendulkar, Zaheer and Laxman to call it a day and pave way for a young team like England has.
Meanwhile Australia has taken am unbeatable 3-1 lead against the World cup runners up Sri Lanka.
Re: Re: Re: test ranking
by siva kumar on Aug 20, 2011 09:20 PM
True ..but the younger guard is not inspiring either. No young player performed like Dravid. Raina has been give n number of chances.but he failed miserably to make any impression. Earlier it was thought he is weak against short pitched seam bowling. Now he has proved that he is weak against spin bowling also.
Re: Re: Re: Re: test ranking
by Sudhir Nair on Aug 20, 2011 10:44 PM
Raina is not the only young gun. There are host of promising talents like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Chetashwar Pujara. They should be roped in the tests
