I have heard chinks in the armor and ironing out the kinks. Never heard about ironing out the chinks. So, the title leaves me wondering if author wants to pancake chinks (a British slang for Chinese), which, by the way, has nothing to do with Cricket. Just a little levity at the cost of 'language challenged' author.
Our spinners neither can turn the ball nor can maintain line and length (the recent comment came from all time great off spinner Erapalli Prasanna), on the other hand England spinners do the just opposite in the perfect manner. They never like to miss the line and length and then also mix vicious spin which can iron out Indian team this time in Kolkata.
With England if it is OK we play 16 players against their 11 . We have done all we could to see they do not play well ! but this could be additional idea.
Atleast 7 players of the playing 11 in the Indian team do not contribute anything, either in batting or bowling. That includes Dhoni also whose wicket -keeping skills are just 50%. Sehwag cant even take a catch properly, has to be hidden in the slips, as he cannot field and run around the boundary.
In such a scenario, India's attempt to win a test match is by getting the pitch curator to tamper with the pitch, make it a big turner. Then win the toss, bat first, hope we score 450 plus runs and then again hope that our spinners rip thru the English batting line up, in both their innings
What will happen if the English win the toss and bat first. As of today, our batsmen can neither play swing, seam bowling or spin on Indian pitches. The "hunter" will become the "hunted".
On real cricketing talent, with atleast top 5 batsmen not contributing or seriously intending to "stay put" at the pitch for a long period, how can we even draw a test match. It is a very weak situation which any touring team will exploit easily.
Re: Weak Indian test side
by madanmohan siddhanthi on Dec 03, 2012 04:33 PM
AS an Indian I am finding this offensive and in touch with my lawyers and political strings - whether you could be arrested on Friday night at 0000 hrs under section 66A.There are already round the clock people watching you so do not think of escaping .
Most succesful batsmen in India from England had lot of patience one I remember is Ken Barrigton - he would not mind playing overs together with out a run - we had some of best spinners at the time .approach of Cook is likely to be more succesful than Pietersen - which may not click all the time . England failed in the first test because they leaked too many runs early .Any team bottle them up wickets will come .This Indian team is nothing to worry particularly spin play patiently you will conquer .
Re: SEE HISTORY
by Saaani Mrichie on Dec 02, 2012 07:16 PM
Shame we have wasted billions of hours watcing Test Cticket for so many decades!shame that we have NOT banned Test Cricket even now!CAN anna hazare &team members fight to Ban Useless Test Cricket! Canhe do that at least NOW as a patriotic duty for the nation???Who cares forBoring&Poverty-producing& useless TEST CRICKET& Long duration ranji&duleep trophy cricket,etc??? THIS GAME OF CRICKET WAS INTRODUCED BYCROOKED& WICKED BRITISHERS LIKE MAKING& MARKETING OFMAHATMA& non-violence dirty trick to make all majority hindus mmorrns& ennuchs&cowards forever& the past 64 years shows thatthe crooked britishers weresuccessful to make us a BANANA REPUBLIC of majority morrons with their dirtygames, we must BAN Test Cricket forever& WE must shout that wewill notallow Boring and Poverty-producing &useless TEST CRICKET to make us poorer any more. One day cricket or t20 or t30 cricket ONLY must be allowed&THEY MUST BE ALLOWED TO BE PLAYED ONLY ON WEEK-ENDS OR HOLIDAYS so that we do not lose millions of working hours of men& women& youth any more&wedo not remain poor forever due to useless and time-wasting and BoringTEST Cricket too. All patriotic citizens and sponsors MUST BOYCOT TESTCricket&ranji& duleep trophy cricket FORVER if they love the Nation&future of the Nation
Re: Re: SEE HISTORY
by wcpak on Dec 03, 2012 07:00 AM
You need to learn the art of making people read your post. The first art is "do not write a freakin paragraph".
Re: Brits enjoy Kolkatta more as history of Kolkatta Brits came h
by x y on Dec 02, 2012 06:44 PM
The Brits found out the problem with the Bengalis early and shifted the capital.The decline of Calcutta since independence is sad story.
