Like in tennis, Indians can only play clay cricket..cannot play Grass cricket. We have never won in Grassy foreign conditions..
The BCCI, the Richest board, with Budgets almost like that of a state government..has never shown any interest in making Grassy pitches on which first class cricket can be played to make good player..This Joke of Tigers at home and lambs away will go on..while Dhoni and team make trillions...
What we see today is not cricket..its money cricket..Micket...
Cricket was when Marshall bowled to Amarnath...or when Richards was playing Hadlee
Re: Indians can only play clay cricket..cannot play Grass cricket
by gottachange on Oct 22, 2011 07:18 PM
and with that corrupt football like man at the helm.. things cannot be worse...
Re: Indians can only play clay cricket..cannot play Grass cricket
by D S on Oct 22, 2011 07:29 PM
india needs to keep 80% pitches that suit indian bowler, 20% pitches that are like videshi for practice of desi pace bolwers and batting. Also, see how our spinner and slower bowlders do in videshi type pitches in Desh.
Re: Re: Indians can only play clay cricket..cannot play Grass cri
by D S on Oct 22, 2011 07:31 PM
continued ..
Emerging pacers. India needs to have backup plans when we play emerging pacers who dont have all the experience. just in case, the opposition targets them.
angrez developed Broad even after his blunders ...
Re: Indians can only play clay cricket..cannot play Grass cricket
by anthony on Oct 23, 2011 12:45 PM
Sports is a sports , you can be master in all, will other countries prepare pitch like Indian conditions and take challenges? on should be ready play in all conditions but then they are the world champions. dont worry who makes how much, i feel they deserve it because this is a era of reward for the achievers, there were days of kings who reuled and made money, business people too make money, toady office boy takes a handsome sallary, undergraduate takes a big cheque working in the call centre, PG takes a lesser cheque in some places, it depends on which ground you choose. if dhoni was playing in the road side still he would have played the same way , with same passion and talent. so dont worry Life is a garden and learning is a game.
angrez developed Broad even after his blunders ...
After the series has been won, India should also plan for longer term.
When India allows rabbits because they get more wickets, they cannot expect to produce cheetahs. Wihen Broad was hit all over by Yuvi, angrez put efforts to develop Broad into a better bowlers.
What does it mean, Indian have hardly focussed to develop Yadav or Aaron or Ishant into better bowlers. They are thinking of getting low speed bowlers like Arvind, Mithun, vijay, etc. In short run, these bowlers will be good. but in foreign pitches, these players will be busted. At-least, one pitch in India should be batting and bowling pitch for fast bowlers like Yadav, Aaron, etc so they can be developed for play videshi teams.
For india - If you do not know how to develop leopards, you will end up getting rabbits. Not denying that slow bowlers and spinner have role, but desh should have variety ready.
and if india really wanted slower and effective bowler for one more match, then why did they ignore RP Singh.
also, desi batting needs to face quality fast pace and spin for domestic match and practice so they can face videshi bowling.
Re: ...
by raman govindan on Oct 22, 2011 10:09 AM
if india wants to succeed in foreign wickets, 80 % of our international wickets shoud be green and live that aid the speed sters.
Everyone was after removing our captan from team. Now what happened all others are out of team (injury etc) and only our captan remain intact and fit even after captani in odi, 20-20, tests, ipl, cl etc etc. Now also he win with our ABC team.
Re: We should have different captains
by Jiju on Oct 22, 2011 07:34 AM
Gambhir & Yuvraj can be tried. Dhoni can either be rested, or used only for keeping wickets on those occassions. Afterall, someone has to be trained as a captain if Dhoni is unavailable for any reason.
Be it India or England. The real no 1 teams were West Indies under Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards and Australia under Taylor, Waugh and Ponting who would enter into other countries and beat them.
Re: Ghar mein sab sher hain
by Jiju on Oct 22, 2011 07:36 AM
I agree with you Mahesh.Though we have won at times, we are yet to keep the winning momentum like how Australia did for almost a decade.
Great show, Dhoni,the Greatest Cricket Captain Ever of World,Not India ALONE! Just ignore all jealous cats like suarva ganguly,kapil dev,sunny,etc,etc who will use all media tricks to pull you down, But millions of indian cricket fans know that you are the the Greatest Crciket Captain Ever of World,Not India ALONE! Best Wishes for More Great Exploits,Dhoni, Millions Just Love you Dhoni, You merit to be Our Prime Minister,Dhoni!
england scammed, had 3 dutch origin SA players, 2 indian slaves, the ICC RULES were CHANGED before angrez arrived. WHAT MORE ANGREZ NEEDED?
Last time the angrez used DRS to scam over ill-prepared and unfit indian team. Played India in dew conditions. Like how they scheduled India this time.
peitersen was cobbling up Jadeja and even went after praveen kumar, ...Indian bowling has to improve if they want to win 5-0.
virat kohli looked more dangerous with bowling at times ..
Re: mohali pitch was prepared to favour england?
by Ting Tang on Oct 21, 2011 11:59 PM
Mahendra singh Dhonithe Greatest Crciket Captain Ever of World,Not India ALONE!Beware of jealous cats like suarva dada, sunny,kapil dev,a azhar, and so mnay others who want to kill you because of envy! You are the greatest, Dhoni, millions of indians just love you,Dhoni&want you to be the Prime Minister of our country, You are a great leader too,Dhoni
Re: mohali pitch was prepared to favour england?
by Jiju on Oct 22, 2011 07:38 AM
DS, according to you everything was prepared to favour England. Still they did not win it. They are also paper tigers like us when it comes to overseas.
Re: Re: Re: hail dhoni hate tendulkar
by Abhishek Kulkarni on Oct 21, 2011 09:42 PM
He is always there..whether India wins or loses. Take his name with respect.
Re: Re: Re: Re: hail dhoni hate tendulkar
by Sunil Vaidya on Oct 22, 2011 02:16 AM
abhishek i think i told you many times i only give respect to those who deserve it. as for he being always there i wonder what exactly you mean? like he was there (but not playing) when bhajji's MI won the CL 20. wonder why he has always to be OUTSIDE the field so that his team does well and whenever he is ON the field he messes things up.
i wonder what attracts you to him that you give him so much undeserved respect...
Re: hail dhoni hate tendulkar
by Ting Tang on Oct 22, 2011 12:00 AM
Mahendra singh Dhonithe Greatest Crciket Captain Ever of World,Not India ALONE!Beware of jealous cats like suarva dada, sunny,kapil dev,a azhar, and so mnay others who want to kill you because of envy! You are the greatest, Dhoni, millions of indians just love you,Dhoni&want you to be the Prime Minister of our country, You are a great leader too,Dhoni
Winning 3-0 and the series is a mini black wash too, right? Oh btw, no Sachin, no Viru, no Yuvi, no Zaheer, this is a second rung Indian team.
I can't believe this pathetic England team who never won a world cup or never came close to winning a world cup are No.1 in tests. It's a shame to the game of cricket.
Re: We need 2 more for the black wash, right?
by Ting Tang on Oct 22, 2011 12:01 AM
Hope Anna Hazare& all patriots MAKE a National Agitation to BAN Boring&Time-wasting&ANTI_national&anti-development TEST CRICKET Forever.Exciting IPL matches and Even OneDay Matches and T20 match in England comapred to boring&time-wasting Test Cricket MUST Open the Eyes of Fans&Government NOW.India&ALL Poor countries Must BAN Test Cricket &PLay Only ODI& short cricket Matches to prevent more poverty,misery&under-development. Cricket Fans&Sponsors MUST Dump Test Crciket in interest of the development of the Nation &to increase productivity of the citizens too.The Time-wasting Test Cricket, 3 Day Crciket,etc was invented by crooked British Colonizers, like inventing Mahatma gandhee,the british double agent&non-violence to make People of Colonies Lazy&Morrons&vegtables& POOR Forever.The ODI matches&T20 match provided thrilling Cricket Unlike the Monotonous& Time-Wasting TEST CRICKET which has wasted Millions of man or woman hours of our country& MADE US POORER too&this wastage of millions of working hours has been happending for the past 500 years& MORE& that is why we indians are 50 years behind China which does NOT have this anti-national time-westing game of TEST CRICKET.What a shame that WE have NOT BANNED such a time-wasting game as TEST CRICKET&NOT enacted the law which states that ONLY ODI or short versions oc criket macthes MUST be played ONLY During Holidays or week-ends!
