I have 100% faith that this Indian team will bounce back and beat england.English players looks very over confident after 1st test and overhyped by their media and former players like botham and boycott(as always, be it a wedding of their useless prince to be or beckham,rooney and anything and everything they do). They will be b#anged badly, wait and watch.English media might forget how badly they lost when they visited India in 2008, so wait and watch. My advice to english team is to keep their back side greecy so it will be smooth bang by Indians and boycott and botham will eat s#h#i#t.
I am an ardent supporter of MS Dhoni BUT that's only for the T20 and 50 over formats of the game. I don't feel the man is a test caliber player. His batting stats prove he's pathetic in the longer version of the game. We need to bring in a professional wicket keeper who can bat better than Dhoni, like Wriddhiman Saha or Dinesh Karthik, We also need to drop Bhajji immediately as he's becoming more like Yusuf Pathan - a bits and pieces all rounder.
We also need to encourage Rohit Sharma and Badrinath to play more tests for India but the problem is that the 3 old men are not retiring. I want to see a YOUNG India and I don't care even if the team loses because in sports no team can keep winning forever.
Re: Dhoni NOT worthy of test place
by krishna on Jul 29, 2011 01:47 AM
Why does everyone harp on the retirement of the three old men. Should that happen this team batting will be reduced to sub stabdard. (at least outside of the sub continent). The problem is not the 3 old men, it is the 8 others that are of ocncern.
Re: Re: Dhoni NOT worthy of test place
by Ian Chappell on Jul 29, 2011 06:46 AM
yeh right...the moment the 3 old men retire the team will be at no. 8 (just above Bangladesh) in teat ranking.
Re: Dhoni NOT worthy of test place
by sunil vaidya on Jul 29, 2011 09:39 AM
jay..figures prove you wrong...dhoni has better record as a batsman and keeper in history of indian cricket...
jay, tell me ONE indian wicketkeeper who has better record as a batsman or/and as a keeper than dhoni...
Just like you all, I also frustrated to see India losing the Lord's test match. Never mind, our stalwarts need a jerk to start their engine. Now England is in trouble. Our Lions are woken up and India will make 3-1 in this series. Trust me i made predictions correct before also.
In the second test, India will be playing Leggie and Sreesanth which will make England bowled out for 125 in their first innings.
Re: India # 1
by sadasivan chinniah on Jul 29, 2011 02:29 AM
i like ur optimism but u should be also realistic. ur mind lacks that and i feel sorry. look at English team. they are a very good all-round performing unit. we will be thrashed 3-0 or 3-1. accept reality and then forget it and go watch Champions trophy
Re: India # 1
by sadasivan chinniah on Jul 29, 2011 02:29 AM
i like ur optimism but u should be also realistic. ur mind lacks that and i feel sorry. look at English team. they are a very good all-round performing unit. we will be thrashed 3-0 or 3-1. accept reality and then forget it and go watch Champions trophy
india if manage to draw..then they must consider themselves lucky...winning any is simply outta quetion...keep track of dhonis batting...he always hides under the performances of srt,dravi and vvs...boss-D-ka
Have you looked at your pathetic bowlers and how powerful the English batting line up is..and you will take 20 wickets ??, with the liability like Bhaji who can't even take a wicket / innings these days..and rest so called fast bowlers run faster than they bowl..
who came to captaincy by some star alignment in his fate. The guy is just plain lucky, look at his own batting records, barring 1-2 matches this guy can't even score 10-15 with conviction. Hopefully the same stars will thrash him now..
to captain, just plain lucky guy who rode his luck..he thinks boys for Sachin, Dravid and Laxman..are you kidding me you moron, you are not even 10% of these guys. This guy is joke and sould be kicked out promptly. He does not even have a technique to play test cricket
dhoni....this time u r goin to b the go back kings. success has sure gone to ur head. calling the team my boys which includes stalwarts like tendu, dravid , zaheer, laksman veeru, bhajji etc reeks of immaturity.
