Here is what our great over-hypde skipper Dhoni said after the match.
"What is important is to switch off from the game. You don't really want to overdo it. There may be a few individuals who want to spend a bit more time on the field, but I feel it's always important to switch off from the cricket. That really helps you de-stress a bit, and come back in a positive state of mind. I feel that rather than spending more and more time practising, what we need to do is spend some time off the field with some recreational activity and get some time off cricket."
Re: Our great skipper
by haumaukhau on Jan 07, 2012 10:36 AM
This man was laughing shamefully after match. He should blame himself for poor captaincy and batting. Also told to take rest 4-5 days before 3 rd test as in first two some remarkable achievement has been done whereas more practice would have been better.
The way indian cricketers are performing in test cricket , one thing is clear that they are not going to put their best efforts to win a test cricket which requires longer physical labour and enthusiasm with lesser money and fame compared to one day and T20 cricket. In test cricket, Indian players are least showing the real intent to win the match. Look at the defensive aproach of MS Dhoni as if he is waiting to take his wife to a beach soon after the day's play is over. I feel the cricketing experts and BCCI must do something urgently to creat pitch conditions of variation of different countries in India and give all cricketers proper practice before planning for foreign tours. The cricketers with proper talent, mental attitude, passion and hunger should be given preference in each tour, if we are really serious to win in foreign tours.
3rd Test team X1 & Strategy: • Opening Partnership must be 70 Plus • Need to reshuffle Dravid & laxman Position • Replace Kohli with Rohit Sharma • Alteast 2 Centuries & 2 Fifties from Top 7 Batsman • Include 2 Spinners (Just bowl as much as maidens with attacking field setup) • Include only 2 quick’s(Zaheer & Umesh Yadav)
Re: India able to Draw the series if the below things happen.
by menda vijaya on Jan 07, 2012 07:54 AM
Now the team is consisting of majority brahmans.(it seems in this country of more than a billion diverse people, our selectors could find only brahmans ). If it is entirely made of brahmsn by removing non brahmans fromIndian cricket team may be it will do some winning out side the country other than poor west indies and srilanaka and bagladesh.
Re: India able to Draw the series if the below things happen.
by sanjay on Jan 07, 2012 09:24 AM
Opening Partnership must be 70 Plus ? How can we with what degree of certainty ? With Ram Bharose Hindu Hotel type attitude of opener. It is simply not working. Dravid is virtual opener most of the time even Sachin if openers do not last for 20 plus overs...
Re: Re: India able to Draw the series if the below things happen.
by hello xyz on Jan 07, 2012 09:33 AM
mental Vaidy How many brahmins aare there in the team
india will lose 4-0 and possible most of the 1-dayers in australia... but then next is asia cup being played and bcci will make sure india wins that... all will then forgotten before ipl 5 and business will be as usual... coz basically most current indian cricket fans dont see the game beyond ipl much...
and all the worthless hours spent on these non atheletes. IPL and bollywood. Fake, egoistical, unethical and wasteful entertainment. True champions win everywhere. Australia never got whitewashed the way India. Let Viru score a triple century in Australia. Doubt thats going to happen. Just face it. Australia is far better than India. world cup win was a big fluke.
Re: waiting for the whitewash
by Mohan Rao on Jan 07, 2012 04:10 AM
World Cup win was not just a fluke, it was a massive fixing done by BCCI to keep the idiotic crowds hang on to TV sets in every possible place, while BCCI itself reaping billions and distributing among themselves together with congressis
I urge BCCI to think in cancelling this "Thunder Down Under" tour and come back home to play favourite IPL in flattest pitches of world at India....Hope all the struggling 30 aged team members find some form and get new business deals in Advertisements, Promos etc...
Re: dhoni
by Chat India on Jan 07, 2012 01:20 AM
Dhoni is very cool captain and he needs to be as you have close to 5 players nearing 35 in the squad who cannot even run in the field and display very bad fielding....He needs to be Cool to control this bandwagon of ageing players..
Re: Re: dhoni
by Mohan Rao on Jan 07, 2012 04:14 AM
Dear, the runs if any scored by India so far in this test series is by those above 35. Take out the runs scored by Sachin, Dravid and see the total runs from recent 20 tests played by India. Of course if these players were not there scoring runs, there would not be really any need to field..match will be finished in 10 to 20 overs of Indian bowling
I hope Indian team in its present strength are better players for T20 especially IPL where they earn money easily. The youngsters and seniors in team are more excited of IPL, Advertisements, Awards, Promos etc....for Money only. Better to face off from this shame, India can stay away from playing test matches.
