Finally someone has shown the courage to tell what is required to be done. Thanks Kapil.
India had the best batting line up against Australia in one match in this series. Gambhir, Sehwag, Virat Knohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma and the great finisher Dhoni. It was the best ever batting line up in ODI and India won that match. Then the Sachin pleasers replaced Sehwag with him and the result, India couldn't play well even against Sri Lanka.
What is wrong with Indian selectors, commentators, media and fans? I agree this pleasing mentality, worship and sycophancy is there in Indians' blood but still there must have a limit to it.
India must keep the same batting line up for the rest of the matches so that India can win this cup and that way somehow bring back the lost confidence and glory that was missing in the Indian team since last World Cup.
Re: The best assessment from a very straightforward person
by Sebastian Cherukanam on Feb 21, 2012 09:02 AM
The World cup winning innings by Dhoni is one of the best innings and it is the best as it was played by a finisher and I see only one innings that can be rated above that and that was the century by Arvind D'Silva in the world cup final against Australia.
I agree technically Sachin is the best but that is only one quality out of many required in a player. Technically Dhoni is way behind Sachin but he is way ahead in areas like pressure handling, playing according to the situation, taking bold decisions (coming ahead in the world cup final was a classic display of taking responsibility and leading from the front), filling confidence in others (Sachin’s presence in the team in fact put more pressure on other players especially before players like Dhoni and Yuvraj’s arrival in the Indian team.)
Every one is talking about the runs scored by Sachin. I say his total runs would have been well below Dhoni if he had played at the 6th position in the batting line up.
Re: The best assessment from a very straightforward person
by Bingo on Feb 21, 2012 10:28 AM
Ghantaa..
For the sake of money these guys can say anything... Ask kapil how many test matches he had required to get last 10 wickets to surpass 431 wickets of Richard Hadlee??
Hii Friends, Sachin will rise to the occassion and we will win the tri series beating australia in the finals. Sachin will achieve his feat of 100th century on Australian soil and win the triseries as his farewell. Just wait and watch.
Re: Re: sachin will rise up to the occassion.
by babran on Feb 21, 2012 08:59 AM
sachin should forget that he is on the way to 100th century.he should play like a new guy who is always thirsty of runs.
Re: sachin will rise up to the occassion.
by silver mani on Feb 21, 2012 08:47 AM
When this Triseries will be played?Probably in 2031 and other two teams can be Syria and Libya.
Re: sachin will rise up to the occassion.
by Murali Ramakrishnan on Feb 21, 2012 08:49 AM
WE have been waiting mate. Never get to watch him play cricket :)
Cant be too long before he watches the waiting people in the bench.
This shows his short memory - please remember how long from 400 wickets you took to reach Richard Hadlees record of 425 - nearly 19 Tests which is close to 2 years.
Did you retire then not wanting to break Hadlees record?
Re: Re: Kapils Short Memory
by Salil on Feb 21, 2012 09:40 AM
there is a difference, last 2 years kapils perfroamce was very average, if not worst. while sachin, discard this last month,is amongst the top performers...last 1-2 years
Re: Kapils Short Memory
by Murali Ramakrishnan on Feb 21, 2012 08:51 AM
How does that make his statement wrong.
Kapil did try for his milestone. Now he calls for selectors to axe nonperformer is nothing wrong.
Afterall he was also booted out eventually.
Watch his statement - He said if players cant decide their time to quit, then selectors needs to advise them the time. Which is fair statement. Sachin is no less in this.
Post 85-86.. from 86-94 can we remember a single contrubtion of Kapil that resulted in an Indain victory.. he played well in the hero cup finals.. scoring 20 odd runs and picking up 2 wkts for 18 runs from ten.. other than that his contribtion towars winning is zero.. his 129 against SA, or 25 wkts in AUs, or 4 sizers in Eng meant nothing.. all came when india had nothin to lose
Re: Kapil
by arnab ghosh on Feb 21, 2012 08:46 AM
I completely agrees with u,the person who played his last 7 years of cricket for only record should stop talking
Kapil...think u forgot , how u became a liability in the last 3 years of ur careerand how u hanged on only to break Hadlee's record..Srinath missed a good 2 years of test crciket because of you
Re: Short term memory
by logical stab on Feb 21, 2012 07:45 AM
And that's exactly what sachin is doing by sticking around - not allowing good young cricketers to come through.
Re: Re: Short term memory
by anand zawar on Feb 21, 2012 08:18 AM
and what whom would u replace?? Your technically SOUND batsmen rohit sharma cannot even open his account. Your captain is not fit to play test cricket. Raina, yuvraj, sehwag cant play shoulder rising deliveries. Less we speak of bowlers the better. Gambhir doesnt know his off stump. Whom would u replace with the legend. Atleast he is scoring those 70-80 odd runs. Just because of him we have this respect in world cricket.
Re: Re: Re: Short term memory
by Murali Ramakrishnan on Feb 21, 2012 08:56 AM
So you are trying to say we have only Sehwag, Gambir, Raina, Yuv only in the whole indian cricket probables?.
Come on be a little fair. Give many youngsters who are sitting away from the National cricket due to some slots being occupied by players like Sachin who never wish to retire inspite of their slump in form.
What 70-80 runs ur talking. Hope you are not counting the whole series score. Sorry to say like that.
I am also a Sachin fan. but he continuous to play only for his 100th. nothing else. Which is absolutely wrong.
