ishant the fool, gambhir has helped you increase your speed for his own practice. If Gambhir know where you can have the edge to beat Aussi bowling, Gambhir would have practiced it for himself and lLeeched it. it is time to make amends now that ishantt is officially the fastest indian bowler, rest are unofficial speedsters(using their own speed gun and DRS tech) in India like many Angrez bowlers do. It is time to have continuous rehabilitation of for all bowlers during the game. === Dhoni should have ignored the hate and prejudice that is crashing India and should have included Rohit in first match like they did during last series in Australia.
After the win, all the political selectors and captain would have bought their favorites in the subsequent matches. And the selected favorites would have lLeeched on the back of the winners to look better than the originals. But the haters pulled their hate trigger too early.
Ishant pressured the Aussies enough that batsmen applied caution to his bowling and tried their shorts on rest of bowlers and were out. Ishant has no option except stepping up, this time he has to find his own way. If it works, rest will follow and he has to move on. Indian bowlers should not forget their rehabilitation and recovery during the match such as to be well.
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Re: Gambhir, Kohli uncomfortable against pace and bounce they need to latch on someone back to find way and then get fame. So they will eventually if they hang around. In case they t
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by D S on Dec 30, 2011 05:20 PM
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So they will eventually, if they hang around. In case they take long to lLeech (could not latch or lLeech in first test), india will loose again with their presence in the team.
Dravid and laxman place need to be revisited as well.
I firmly predict that series will end 4-0 in favour of Australia. As Indian bowlers are not capable enough to take 20 wickets in a test. Our only hope are two pacers UMESH YADAV AND ZAHEER THE OLDY. Aswin will be a great flop on Australian tour as his straight wicket to wicket is not suffice to earn the wicket. We also should remember that this Australian team is absolutely a new product save and except 2 senior players like ponting and hassy. This was a GREAT CHANCE FOR INDIA BUT WHERE ARE THE MATCH WINNING BOWLERS?
Time has come to "Judge" the 3 players "Sachin", "Dravid" & "Laxman" Contribution to the "Team".. These 3 Players Only think abt there "Batting" while they are "Fielding". Prime Example is "Dravid" who "Dropped" so many catches in "2011" but is the Highest rungetter in 2011. Nobody can "Replace" these 3 players primarily on the basis of "Batting"(They r best) but there "Contribution" towards "Team cause", we might be forced to think "Otherwise"....
Re: Three Players
by sunny joseph on Dec 30, 2011 03:30 PM
RD has scored many runs. but if the readers are following cricket since 1996 then only will come to know whether his runs contributed to loss or dull draw. His playing only records no matter India win or loose. There is another player - people say not playing for records - However, he was saying he would be the one scoring the first double century in one dayers. We also witnessed his arrogance when missed a century of a no ball. He does not care whether we loose the match. He wants to score 4 and 6 of every ball. So the object is to have some records for him. Another one has a big mouth - after having some half centuries and centuries. Now see his form.Now one more guy is in the pipe line - Virat.
I simply wants to say - many are playing for their records only.
Re: Three Players
by sunny joseph on Dec 30, 2011 03:30 PM
RD has scored many runs. but if the readers are following cricket since 1996 then only will come to know whether his runs contributed to loss or dull draw. His playing only records no matter India win or loose. There is another player - people say not playing for records - However, he was saying he would be the one scoring the first double century in one dayers. We also witnessed his arrogance when missed a century of a no ball. He does not care whether we loose the match. He wants to score 4 and 6 of every ball. So the object is to have some records for him. Another one has a big mouth - after having some half centuries and centuries. Now see his form.Now one more guy is in the pipe line - Virat.
I simply wants to say - many are playing for their records only.
Ashwin to Hussey, no run, dropped by Rahul Dravid at slip, Ashwin had done so well to draw Hussey out of his crease and have him driving at a flighted one, it turned away to take the outside edge, and went at a nice height to Dravid at slip, who, not for the first time recently, has dropped a sitter
End of over 50 (maiden) Australia 163/6
Else the score would've read 163/7.. the aussie team went on to score 240
Re: Dravid drop catch proves vital
by kishore tendolkar on Dec 30, 2011 01:10 PM
good observation; we never take into account catches dropped by senior players; in England also dravid has dropped more than dozen catches in 4 test.
Re: Dravid drop catch proves vital
by Abhishek Jain on Dec 30, 2011 05:04 PM
Australia, first innings, 214/6 to 286/7 to 333 without any recognised batsmen. India 214/2 to 282 with the so called youngsters. Australia, second innings 197/9 to 240 with the last pair, and India a sorry story again. Agreed the catches shouldn't be dropped, but that shouldn't be the reason for losing the match. Best is the Coach should switch Dravid's position from slips, since he is dropping more than catching, and that would effect his batting too.
drawid is the most negative batsman and now his reflexes to defend are also gone. HE will not touch a ball even if there is a 0.005 % chance of getting out which puts pressure on the other batsmen to compensate for one dead end
Commentary when drawid is batting
Shade outside off stump ...drawid shoulders arms Short outside leg ...drawid wayches it into the keepers gloves Overpitched half volley ...drawid is immaculately forward in defense Short Rank Long Hop....drawid defends off the back foot No ball ! ...drawid plays it back to the bowler Free Hit after no ball .. drawid plays it to to forward short leg
His three centuries in England caused our 4- 0 defeat
Re: drawid
by pramod on Dec 30, 2011 01:15 PM
Dravid is the best batsman in the world for test cricket than any one. Having 5 days in the test it is not require to have good strike rate....
Re: drawid
by Chaturchuramoni Chatterjee on Dec 30, 2011 03:15 PM
Dravid has retired from ODIs and T20s. In test cricket the "Free-Hit" rule is not there.
Re: drawid
by rocky on Dec 30, 2011 12:48 PM
he is the most defensive player.. and his game will always get exposed in odis and t20s... no wonder he was kicked out of the ipl team b'lore by mallya.
Re: Re: drawid
by Ravi Iyer on Dec 30, 2011 02:01 PM
Mallya is not able to run his airline business, we can't expect him to know IPL business and dravid's class. Anyway it's a gain for RR and he may be the next capt in the absence of Warnie.
Re: Re: Re: drawid
by Ravi Iyer on Dec 30, 2011 02:03 PM
Frodo always keeps writing these thingds abt Dravid. He does not understand test cricket. Period. Then he doesn't understand that Drvaid has a calming influence on his partners....no wonder he has had 90 century partnerships. All his fellow team members talk highly of him. May be he has -ve influence on Frodo when he watches Dravid's batting. if that's the case, he can switch off his TV!
drawid is the most negative batsman and now his reflexes to defend are also gone. HE will not touch a ball even if there is a 0.005 % chance of getting out which puts pressure on the other batsmen to compensate for one dead end
Commentary when drawid is batting
Shade outside off stump ...drawid shoulders arms Short outside leg ...drawid wayches it into the keepers gloves Overpitched half volley ...drawid is immaculately forward in defense Short Rank Long Hop....drawid defends off the back foot No ball ! ...drawid plays it back to the bowler Free Hit after no ball .. drawid plays it to to forward short leg
His three centuries in England caused our 4- 0 defeat
Re: drawid
by Ravi Iyer on Dec 30, 2011 02:01 PM
Frodo always keeps writing these thingds abt Dravid. He does not understand test cricket. Period. Then he doesn't understand that Drvaid has a calming influence on his partners....no wonder he has had 90 century partnerships. All his fellow team members talk highly of him. May be he has -ve influence on Frodo when he watches Dravid's batting. if that's the case, he can switch off his TV!
no one seems to be complaining about the drop catch by dravid of ashwin's bowling... dravid the culprit dropped hussey and the aussie team went on to make a decent total.
Re: india lost the 1st test mainly because of dravid
by pramod on Dec 30, 2011 01:14 PM
Dravid is the best batsman in the world for test cricket than any one. Having 5 days in the test it is not require to have good strike rate.... Every one drops catch in slip.
Re: india lost the 1st test mainly because of dravid
by rocky on Dec 30, 2011 12:33 PM
if the catch had been taken then the total to chase would have been around 250 only.. hussey played the anchor role after that.. catches win matches and in this case dravid's drop catch cost india the match..
Re: Re: india lost the 1st test mainly because of dravid
by Against Pseudos on Dec 30, 2011 12:52 PM
Rocky:
Let's add some more IFs and BUTs.
India were 214/2 just before Day 2 end. We were 214/4 next morning. Still better than 214/6 Australia. Australia went on to 333. We went on to 282. We lost the match there. If we scored 100 runs more (as was most possible), we'd have had to chase 192, which is even less than 250.
Re: Re: Re: india lost the 1st test mainly because of dravid
by rocky on Dec 30, 2011 12:55 PM
you talking about the early stages of the match.. the match was alive till the aussie's second innings.. if india had got the aussie all out for around 200 in their 2nd innings then things would've been different with india having to chase only around 250 runs.
Re: Re: Re: Re: india lost the 1st test mainly because of dravid
by Against Pseudos on Dec 31, 2011 02:12 AM
Oh. So the IF has to come at a later stage of the match? OK. IF VVS and Kohli scored centuries, India would have won. ;-)
Re: Its time for dravid to retire..
by srinivas satyanarayan on Dec 30, 2011 12:22 PM
youngsters now have enough opurtunity to display their talent like IPL etc. just to give room to so called youngsters u can't expect class to retire! i dont see better young talent than Rahul
Re: Re: Its time for dravid to retire..
by rocky on Dec 30, 2011 12:27 PM
his strike rate is the worst.. and most irritating aspect of his batting. maily due to him the team was losing in the odis. once he retired along with laxman the team has even won the world cup. he is just like a tortoise, maybe suitable for only tests. he still needs to score runs at a faster pace. He has also started dropping catches in the slip. mainly because of him the team missed taking the very important wicket of hussey, which was a matter of winning and losing.
Re: Re: Re: Its time for dravid to retire..
by pramod on Dec 30, 2011 01:12 PM
Dravid is the best batsman in the world for test cricket than any one. Having 5 days in the test it is not require to have good strike rate....
