bharat ratna -Awarded for the highest degrees of national service.As sachin is about to be nominated for this award lets see his national service today ,whether he will do something special today to save the pride of his country or help brits to make fun of us.Note:-this will be his 4th innings of the tour and he will be nominated for bharat ratna ,not other teammates ,so i expect much special from him rather from anyone else.
India lost the plot at 2 stages-first when it had its foot on England's throat in the 1st innings at 124 for 8 and again when India with a score of 267 for 4 was rolled over for 288! A truly champion team does not surrender such advantages. It bowled short & wide to Broad and Swann instead of the line and length it had successfully employed against the more recognised batsmen earlier. While batting there was no one to support the doughty Dravid after Yuvraj was out.If Dhoni,Harbhajan & Co, lower down had stuck around the lead could have been substantial.Now India is looking at another collosal defeat in the face.The only hope it has from being displaced from its No1 position is to win the last two matches.Maybe Sehwag with his aggression would lead the way in unsettling the English pacemen. The current Indian batsmen have been too defensive and have allowed the bowlers to dictate! Given these factors and geriatric fielding even by comparative youngsters such as Praveen,Ishant & Harbhajan India's chances look bleak!
Re: 2nd Test
by pravin sarode on Aug 01, 2011 06:18 AM
britishers are dominating their brother in laws sachin's team because sachin's spouce is brit girl how can sachin play well against his own in laws that is why sachin fix these matches with azaruddin
Re: will they?
by ashish on Aug 01, 2011 05:54 AM
The current batting line up for this only has two Champion batsman.. Dravid and Laxman.. Other are 4 or just fillers.
And tail, including Dhoni can't even bat in the English condition
Re: Re: will they?
by pravin sarode on Aug 01, 2011 06:35 AM
IPL hangover is not yet finished for M S dhoni he is phisically present on ground while batting but mentally in hotel room with newly weded sakshiji so next match atleast Laxman must lead team and dhoni enjoy honeymoon with sachinAnjali couple?
stuart broad along with the english team use jellybeans and other 'aids' to polish the ball and get it to move a lot more. the secret behind a lot of wickets is the new found zeal for confectionery!
Harbhajan completed destroyed india. Instead of playing from india he is playing from England. It is going to could and overcast condition for last two days. Surelyindia will loose. If dhoni thinks he is the best he should come and open the second innings and save india from defeat. Hope harbhajan is playing last match. If he plays his hands need to chopped.
Re: Why harbhajan Singh playing test
by pravin sarode on Aug 01, 2011 06:22 AM
include wasim jafar instead of sachin in 3rd test atleast k shrikanth and piyush chawla in stead of bhajji so that at least india can draw the test because Jasim Jafar is in best form but he is not selected due to his faith in religion islam as k shrikanth is not islamic follower?
Re: I agree BCCI should create circumstances to help Sachin scor
by Jagdish Reddy on Aug 01, 2011 02:31 AM
I like your sarcasm :) you can become a good writer, only if you don't use religion/caste/hatred on any one player. They are others in the team who did similar things by playing in IPL but not playing against WI.
Re: I agree BCCI should create circumstances to help Sachin scor
by wizardo id on Aug 01, 2011 04:26 AM
yeah the constant support for their favorites/ incumbents is sickening. someone please kick ravi shastri like a "tracer bullet"
i think dravid and laxman should recreate kolkatta innings ...... but thats too much to ask from poor dravid .... he did his job well ... maybe sachin and laxman ? .... laxman can give a lot more ..he too is playing bit careless ...unable to tick around for big innings.... this is right time for sachin to dig in ..forget 100th 100 and all that bulllcrap ... just enjoy the game ...read every ball very carefully and enjoy the game to fullest ....we lost the match anyway ..so why not relish the game ?
Re: finally
by achtung baby on Aug 01, 2011 01:47 AM
i feel sachin should open...i dont know why he decided to go down the order.... even if he gets out doesnt matter ....he should enjoy the match opening the innings....if he can see off the initial overs then his confidence builds enormously.....
dhoni should also come up the order ...yuvraj can do much better down with raina
batsmen should always go with 50 run target on their mind .... they should not think about lead or runs to chase or anything ... just think 50 runs and score accordingly and concentrate..once they reach 50 they should take it easy to slowly reach 100... by that way batsmen dont feel pressure...even if the guy before you got out for duck ...your target should never change ... 50 thats it..
if one can train their mind that way then pressure never gets onto you
Re: strategy
by pravin sarode on Aug 01, 2011 06:25 AM
ishant completed century so also shreeshant now pravin is just 7 runs short of REVERSE century as generous indians
