Mr. Srikkanth, please be very strict with the indian team. No more excuses, please atleast we can forget the debacle in England. Please as usual tell openly to BCCI for the better future of Indian Cricket. IPL is too bad.
Re: Message for K.Srikkanth
by venkatram reddy on Jan 09, 2012 05:41 AM
how come you forget the debacle in england and how long should be we accept the humiliating losses. the current indian team does not have technique nor patience to play test cricket.
Re: Chief selector 's thought is wrong
by M Raj on Jan 08, 2012 11:51 PM
till he creates a record for the maximum number of consecutive losses. Dhoni, please elect to lead only the one dayers,
I think it is unjust to blame only the Indian batsmen particularly when they are facing excellent bowling attack in the fast and bouncy pitches of Australia. It is ALSO the other way round that our bowlers are not performing up to the par and have failed to capitalize on the early breakthroughs they got in both the test matches and giving away too much runs.
The time has come to "Retire" 2 gr8s "sachin" & 'Dravid". Reasons are:- these 2 gr8s just want to increse there "Test Runs" so that nobody can catch them.We are losing Consistently,why not try New faces atleast they will play for Country. These 2 grs "Fielding" is so poor that 1 of them( "Sachin" ) has to "hide" in the Field & the Other ("Dravid") has dropped so many catches becoz they think only abt there "Batting"(To increase test Runs) while Fielding. "Sachin" will only retire IF "Kallis" & "Pointing" retire becoz they are close to his "Records" & India & its people will be "Cheated" Continuosly by Losing.
Re: Re: Retire
by venkatram reddy on Jan 09, 2012 05:45 AM
MR ricky thomas ponting is great and cannot be compared to MR selfish sachin tendulkar. ponting played for his country and also won world cups and test matches . what did tendulkar achieve except playing for his own records and improving his bank account balance.? Look at the mentality of michael clarke the way he was playing he could easily break the record of the great sir brian lara , but he declared because he wants to win the game for the country unlike the indians who would have continued to break the record. there is a lot of moral to learn from the OZ's
Sehwag : I see the ball and hit it.. The fielder see the ball and catch it.. ITs a simple came. Gambhir : Leading edges.. Can i remove the edge from the bat? Dravid : My legs have gone thinner with age. Hence the gap and i am getting bowled. Tendulkar : They should call 80 runs as Century for people who are above 38. Then i will reach 100 Laxman : My timing is perfect, only the fielder is also timing my catches well Kohli : I just lifted a finger to ask for wash room. They misinterpreted Dhoni : I am not thinking anything, because i am intuitive captain Ashwin : I am hitting centuries and taking no wickets. I am the next Harbhajan, oh God.. Zakeer,Ishant : At the time of releasing, I cant control my line.. Did u ask for bowling or ... ?
The rot started during the when the Kiwis toured in 2010. There the batting collapsed time and again, against a mediocre attack, at home, and each time was hauled out by, of all people, Harbhajan Singh.
Its been about, I think, 17 test matches, home and away including that series. How many of the top line Indian batsmen, other than Rahul Dravid, and including M S Dhoni, have got hundreds in Test matches. How many have scored 150 scores (Daddy hundreds - as the English terms them). How many 200 scores have been scored ? Eight of those tests have been played against the Kiwis or the Windies. Even against these teams, leaving out the Kolkata test last November, the batting has not really clicked.
A test team needs at least one guy to get a 150 score, preferably in the first innings of a test match. If two other batsmen get 75 scores, it can land up with a score of 400 quite easily. Then they can try and force a win, or at least think of drawing the match. Very few teams have lost after getting a 400 score in the first innings unless they have batted pathetically in the second.
Otherwise, the team will always will be playing catch up, and against a top side, they will invariably get punished.
Perhaps the key to this lies in what Sunil Gavaskar said a few days back - that the art of batting in a test match does not lie in just knowing which ball to play or hit, it also lies in knowing which ball to leave. He should know.
Re: Stay at the wicket
by Face Dude on Jan 08, 2012 10:35 PM
I agree and this calls for a change in strategy of selecting batsmen
we have to separate One day and T20 team from test team. There cannot be players playing in both the formats at the same time. It is apparent how the Indians got out in second innings when one big wicket fell. Two or three wickets fell quickly due to rash shots. Also lapse in concentration after putting up a decent total is also due to the perils of one day cricket. Whats the need for laxman to score quickly on day 4? Tendulkar got out to a mediocre delivery mainly because of lack of concentration... In test cricket its the temperament - like sunny gavaskar possessed - thats crucial. Tendulkar is in that mould and so is Dravid, but mixing up one days and test cricket just kills their ability to focus... so much seems lacking when there a quality bowling attack has to be faced for a sustained period of time (i.e without any time limits..)
This has been an issue since the days of Srikkanth who scored quick runs in one dayers only to repeatedly fail in test matches... because test match requires greater skills and technique on a sustained basis.. which poor srikkanth did not have in good measure..
Now INdian team has so many srikkanth's in the form of sehwag, kohli, raina, gambhir, vvs, sachin etc... this translation of performance from one form to the other is the root cause of our batsmen failing repeatedly on quality tracks
How the opponents do.. thats probably because they also have go
The rot started during the when the Kiwis toured in 2010. There the batting collapsed time and again, against a mediocre attack, at home, and each time was hauled out by, of all people, Harbhajan Singh.
Its been about, I think, 17 test matches, home and away including that series. How many of the top line Indian batsmen, other than Rahul Dravid, and including M S Dhoni, have got hundreds in Test matches. How many have scored 150 scores (Daddy hundreds - as the English terms them). How many 200 scores have been scored ? Eight of those tests have been played against the Kiwis or the Windies. Even against these teams, leaving out the Kolkata test last November, the batting has not really clicked.
A test team needs at least one guy to get a 150 score, preferably in the first innings of a test match. If two other batsmen get 75 scores, it can land up with a score of 400 quite easily. Then they can try and force a win, or at least think of drawing the match. Very few teams have lost after getting a 400 score in the first innings unless they have batted pathetically in the second.
Otherwise, the team will always will be playing catch up, and against a top side, they will invariably get punished.
Perhaps the key to this lies in what Sunil Gavaskar said a few days back - that the art of batting in a test match does not lie in just knowing which ball to play or hit, it also lies in knowing which ball to leave. He should know.
