Re: india under 19 world cup- ind beat pak
by surya das on Aug 20, 2012 12:35 PM
yes, great match but we screwed ourselves for this situation.. anyway congrats..
Good that laxman has volunteered to quit. It is always better to quit when there is good going. He is also sufficiently aged and is better to pave the way for the youngsters. Because of him, now Badrinath got a chance. Gangly, to remain in limelight, will always find fault with everybody and criticise the decisions of the board, selectors and the captain. Poor fellow has no job.
Re: The whole team.....
by Jiju on Aug 20, 2012 05:25 AM
Badri got a chance because of Srikant and not Laxman :) If the youngistan theory of Dhoni/Srikant is to be believed, they should have gone with Tiwary rather than Badrinath.....
Re: The whole team.....
by Rahuldravid Backstabber on Aug 20, 2012 11:20 AM
Van Hook, if anyone should have volenteered to retire after 8-0 drubbing, it should have been Dhoni! What a shameless fellow...
V.V.S. Laxman\'s sudden decision to call it a day is a bit difficult to understand. There is no doubt it would have been better if he had signed off immediately after the tour of Australia, like Rahul Dravid did. After all his form in Australia, and before that in England, did suggest he was now past his best.
However, since he had decided to carry on, and had been preparing to play in, and had been selected for, the test series against New Zealand, it is surprising he decided to call it a day just a week before the series was to start.
Was it something the selectors had told him that made him decide enough was enough ? The selectors had every right to tell Laxman to call it a day or that they would be forced to drop him. The thing is how was the message conveyed. Laxman was always known to be a cool and courteous person. His decision to call it a day in this manner does give one the impression that the matter was not handled very professionally.
Be as it may, adieu to a wonderful cricketer. He will be fondly remembered by all who followed the game when he played not just for the runs he scored, and he scored a huge number of them, but also for the magic of his strokeplay and the situations in which he got those runs.
He was a match winning batsman - a rare breed. The 281 he scored at the Eden Gardens in 2001 is the stuff of legend. It was the spirit of the heroic effort which inspired India to believe that one day it could become the best team in the world. It did
V.V.S. Laxman's sudden decision to call it a day is a bit difficult to understand. There is no doubt it would have been better if he had signed off immediately after the tour of Australia, like Rahul Dravid did. After all his form in Australia, and before that in England, did suggest he was now past his best.
However, since he had decided to carry on, and had been preparing to play in, and had been selected for, the test series against New Zealand, it is surprising he decided to call it a day just a week before the series was to start.
Was it something the selectors had told him that made him decide enough was enough ? The selectors had every right to tell Laxman to call it a day or that they would be forced to drop him. The thing is how was the message conveyed. Laxman was always known to be a cool and courteous person. His decision to call it a day in this manner does give one the impression that the matter was not handled very professionally.
Be as it may, adieu to a wonderful cricketer. He will be fondly remembered by all who followed the game when he played not just for the runs he scored, and he scored a huge number of them, but also for the magic of his strokeplay and the situations in which he got those runs.
He was a match winning batsman - a rare breed. The 281 he scored at the Eden Gardens in 2001 is the stuff of legend. It was the spirit of the heroic effort which inspired India to believe that one day it could become the best team in the world. It did
V.V.S. Laxman's sudden decision to call it a day is a bit difficult to understand. There is no doubt it would have been better if he had signed off immediately after the tour of Australia, like Rahul Dravid did. After all his form in Australia, and before that in England, did suggest he was now past his best.
However, since he had decided to carry on, and had been preparing to play in, and had been selected for, the test series against New Zealand, it is surprising he decided to call it a day just a week before the series was to start.
Was it something the selectors had told him that made him decide enough was enough ? The selectors had every right to tell Laxman to call it a day or that they would be forced to drop him. The thing is how was the message conveyed. Laxman was always known to be a cool and courteous person. His decision to call it a day in this manner does give one the impression that the matter was not handled very professionally.
Be as it may, adieu to a wonderful cricketer. He will be fondly remembered by all who followed the game when he played not just for the runs he scored, and he scored a huge number of them, but also for the magic of his strokeplay and the situations in which he got those runs.
He was a match winning batsman - a rare breed. The 281 he scored at the Eden Gardens in 2001 is the stuff of legend. It was the spirit of the heroic effort which inspired India to believe that one day it could become the best team in the world. It did
