and this augurs well for CSK in the CLT20 !! The owners must be really happy...
...wonder Y Varun wasnt played even y'day, and VinayK was - gud for VinakyK,at least he's got enug match practise-dono if he's in one of the CLT20 teams...
So by now SachinT,Gauti msut be fit n raring to go in the CLT20...if not they'll play against the WI - whose mince meat they'll surely make !!
Btw, Indian team should not travel to England, as English people are arrogant and stubborn type. When they travel to India, treat them the same way. No 5 star treatment please.
Re: Ban tour to England
by Twitter India on Sep 17, 2011 02:14 PM
Any team that tour India should be provided with 5 star treatment and millions of dollars by the BCCI. Other wise the touring team will white wash the torunaments.
As long as the host countries have the flexibility to manipulate the pitch according to their favour, we should not recognize cricket as a sport. No other game has anything to manipulate by the host country, only cricket has this flexibility. ICC should provide a universal synthatic pitch so that the pitch will remain same in all the International games, then only Cricket can be recongnized as a true sport and the wins, ranks, records etc will matter.
All Indian palyers including the so called "God of Cricket" are useless outside Indian subcontinet. So, how can we recongnize their records? If the ICC launches the universal pitch, then for the next 100 years Team India will be at the bottom of the rakings.
all jokers and donkeys play for money.No motivatin for winning the match.Rudra pratap,kohli are bowlers I think they play for street clubs match.This is worst tour of dhoni cricket carrier like paki tour in australia in 2010.Every format they lost the match.
I think it all boils down to the touring strategy. We have not understood a few main aspects from past performances. To help improve we should put in place a strategy that includes....
1) Not to tour SA, NZ, Eng and Aus because they prepare bouncy tracks and our weakness is exposed already.
2) Not tour Sri lanka as they prepare spinning tracks that does not suit Indian spinners. Only Sri lankan spinners can take wickets there.
3) No one recommends touring Pak due to the political climate. Its a better strategy to lower risk of losing citing terrorism and other political issues
4) We just finished the WI series. Since they will gain strength with the newer talent find and the pitches are known to be true, avoid touring WI for the next 5 years or so for the benefit of Indian cricket
5) SO that leaves Zim, Bangladesh and of course Netherlands! We can safely conduct tours to these nations and mentor them on the basics of cricket. There is only one in a thousand chance that they can stage an upset so it kind of falls in place perfectly!
6) An alternative is true to Indian tradition we can invite every team to India and play in those dead tracks so our players can be comfortable playing their natural game!
Re: Touring Strategy - Revisit
by kvasal on Sep 17, 2011 01:36 PM
1000% perfect suggestion Sir, But some small changes needed. We should not invite teams like Pakisthan , & Srilanka since they are well acustomed to our pitches. Also all tours should be strictly in the months of March to May only. Then we will be the NO 1 team for ever.
we did not have a genuine dependable bowler not even Munaf Patel is good enough. Our country producing lots of talented batsman but not a single match winning bowler. Vinay Kumar, R.P.Singh, Munaf, Ishant, Praveen, even Zaheer Khan also ordinary bowlers in the international level. Munaf i can say is lucky to win one or two matches for India with his bowling but not dependable. Munaf giving away too many runs. Remember in the World cup against england we could not defend 338 and Munaf gave 11 runs in the final over. Zaheer Khan India's No.1 bowler is also not lethal he is an ordinary bowler just better than other indian bowlers. Remember in the World Cup final he gave away lot of runs in the final three overs. It is always our batting ( which some time fails and sometime shines) which gave us the World Cup. Our bowers did not bowl yorkers, slow bowls they have no control over their bowling. Spinners except Harbhajan, Ojha, Mishra, or Ashwin also looked very ordinary both in tests and in One dayers. Harbhajhan is a match winner for us though he was out of form now. So after Kumble we did not not a match winner in the test matches also. And less said about Ishant Sharma is better. Like Agarkar he bowls too many shot pitch bowls.
So our selectors and National Academies should work hard to produce genuine pace and spin bowlers and also All rounders. Thank u
