From the first day of the Lords test, it seems luck is not favouring our side. Look at the turn of events you can see, Zaheer Khan after taking 02 wickets was injured. India has bowl with four bowlers. Second test Harbhajan Injured and from 124 for 8 England gone up to 224. 3rd Test Sehwag out for very first ball, that decision after referral. Dravid though batted well dropped catches in crucial times . Even in West Indies he dropped Chandrapaul when he was 16 and he went on to make 130 and the test was drawn. Above all Dhoni and Harbhajan seems to have problems regarding the Advertisement that seems to be the reason for bowling flat against England in the first test and faking muscle pull and opting out of the tour. He was fit for Champions Trophy within no time. So why Harbhajan bowled flat giving so many runs in Test Matches and not available for One dayers in think is a Misery. In first One day they have bowled well and picket up two wickets but rain came to the rescue of England. And int the fourth one dayer also 11 runs needed for 07 balls with Broad is injured and last man in. India might have won it but again rain god gave series to England. So my advidce is to consult an Astrologer before proceeding for a series is a better idea. Or take Brejan Daruwalla along with Indian squad.
England management and players have not played a fair play throughout the series. There are a lot of dubious decisions even yesterdays D/L method was doubtful. This has hurt the actual sentiments of cricket. India is a real winner even now, don't forget they are playing without six regular players.
Re: England is a real loser
by Against Pseudos on Sep 12, 2011 10:25 AM
a) When we lose we crib. b) Australia was the real World Cup winner of 2011 by your logic. Isn't it?
Re: Re: England is a real loser
by Raj India on Sep 12, 2011 10:36 AM
How D/L method is applicable here??? England has lost 8 wickets and they were trail by 10 runs with just 7 balls remaining... Is it a fair result?
Re: lost
by RAMESH KRISHNAMURTHY on Sep 12, 2011 10:02 AM
Hello... look at the bowling analysis and then speak. It is the second best analysis in the India Bowling. You may be a kannadiga, hence you cry to include Uthappa. Uthappa once in a blue moon shines, you sleep most of the time and wake up when it shines. Silly.....
For once both have shown some class and application in the field. It was great to see both of them return home unconquered after the Indian innings was over. Though the match tied, India can boast of a moral victory. Hopefully, Indian bowling soon catches up.
Our so called Pacers were treating Swann and Bresnan as they were genuine batsmen.No pacer has the ability to bowl Bouncer or yorkers to these tailenders.Everyone is crying about Rain but brenan and Swann took the game away from us.No wonder this is the effect of idli dosa sambhar Daal Parantha Vada Paav.Swann was chargngto these Pacers.This is the consequence of Not having Red Meat in their diet.These pacers are shame onthename of all genuine pacers in the world.Remembering when Waqar or Wasim.,they used to Terrorize these tailenders with their toecrushing delieveries.
The start of India's problems in the last SA tour were its inability to win the Test series. The 1st Test in SA started with the picking of Jaidev Unankant a both who lacked pace and that resulted in an eventual loss. In the third Test India could not take the tailenders out either.
In the SA ODI series all the key top oder bats were missing because of the upcoming WC and IPL matches. India lost the ODI series as well. The only ODI opener in the domestics was Shikhar Dhawan and Mukund Anand who did not make the cut.
In the WC, India had to defend totals of 290-339 and could not do that because of the selection blunders of Piyush Chawla a unproven youngster.
The followed the WI tour where Dhoni did enforce the win in the Test series and Manoj Tiwari was asked to open an the ODI series without any experience.
The England tour was plagued with injuries with Shewag and Gambhir were out of form, injured and and also out of match practice. Rahane was brought in too late.
The selection blunder of the 3 opening bowlers continued with lack of pace. After waiting for 60 years for a bowler like Varun Aaron to arrive he was benched for line and length bowlers whic could not get wickets.
Who is to be blamed? Selectors, captain, or coach? I think a combination of all them partly because they were aware of what happened in the SA tour.
"Talking about the Indian team's abject failure in this series, the 800 lb gorrilla in the room is the utter disregard by the BCCI for the welfare of Indian cricket. These players are like gladiators...overworked souls whose sweat the BCCI coffers fill. But the BCCI will never admit this and like true addicts the Indian public will keep going back for more!"
