bowling attack vs other team bowling attack. No such difference between them.But the most important motivation by captain and full effort by feilder and bowlers must necessary.AUstralia headed by watson win cb series this month,england headed by cook win against paki 4-0,south africa headed by amla win test series in new zealand top 5 teams of odi.If dhoni retired will kohli or gambhir motivated their teams.I think no becouse there is tremendous gutbaji in team india.Delhiwala,mumbaiwala,chennaiwala and others.
of bangladesh are- Nazimmuddin and hussain.They play this match like test match.By their misbah attitude in world cup semi 2011 they cannot make 237 runs easily.
Congrats to both Pak and B'desh because both played well and it was any body's match.Pak for once played as a well knit unit with excellent bowling and fielding display.Pak top batters failed yet again but S Afridi's late cameo came to the rescue.For B'desh the usual Tamin Iqbal and Shakib were once again the mainstay with the lower order also making a valiant effort but somehow was not enough.While B'desh would be disappointed but they can take heart from the fact that after this ASIA cup they are a different confident side altogether.They need not feel as the eternal underdogs any longer.
If India would have come in final, they would have lost because of rank bad bowlers ! Pakistani bowlers are really good at making 237 look like 300, and Indian bowlers make 330 look like 270 ! That's the basic difference.
Actually India is a Asia King undoubtedly but this time because of Sachin,s century we lost the Asia cup. This thing proves that Sachin is playing for his own records instead of team win.
Re: Bagladesh win ASIA CUP
by Pradeep Vijayan on Mar 23, 2012 01:04 PM
Well expert adviser, batting is only one part of cricket, how did the bowling fare, which has always been the weak part of Indian cricket. You cannot win matches by batting alone, there are other 10 players in the team to perform a task and not just sit and watch whether Sachin scores a century or not.
Re: Re: Bagladesh win ASIA CUP
by target on Mar 23, 2012 01:57 PM
if we know our weakness than how can u rely on it. so better to focus on strength and that is exactly sachin avoided it for his century.
Re: Re: Re: Bagladesh win ASIA CUP
by hawaldar on Mar 23, 2012 02:31 PM
If batting alone is our strength and concentrate only on that heavily, then we should have at least drawn 4 out of the 8 test matches, which did not happen! Cricket is a team game and alround ability counts! If bowlers come up with some performance too, then batsmen will get inspired and vice versa! Remember the mighty West Indies and Australian teams (and also the South African team of 90s) they were good alround teams (strengths in both batting & bowling).
With this Indian Team (which is only about Batting), we must digest such defeats and narrow escapes (missing finals berth, etc apart from huge drubbings). You can't keep blaming on one individual like this. We will remove him only if he is no longer needed (If we find really good replacement for him). The fact is he is currently second or third most consistent after Kohli & Dhoni in ODI (even Gambhir is not consistent) and in Test matches hardly anybody else is coming closer to him! But I agree our entire team should tighten up (and not just he)
Re: Re: Re: Bagladesh win ASIA CUP
by Against Pseudos on Mar 23, 2012 04:25 PM
;-)... And Kohli scored 3% faster than Sachin. Why did he avoid our strength. Any idea?
Re: Bagladesh win ASIA CUP
by hawaldar on Mar 23, 2012 01:44 PM
You can't score 300 always (even on flat pitches). If a team cannot defend 200 , 250 scores (at least occasionally) through good bowling, then such teams are bound to lose matches (especially critical matches, as batsmen have one chance to play under pressure and bowlers can sustain pressure. Bowlers thus need efforts more than pressure-handling).
Only if a team consistently gets bowled out for 150 , 200 scores, then you can blame on batting. Which is not the case with our team. (They have batted well at least in ODI formats even on sporty pitches).
In that regard I would say Pakistan has done well with their overall efforts in the recent past (including World Cup)
Re: Re: Bagladesh win ASIA CUP
by hawaldar on Mar 23, 2012 01:48 PM
OK, you can criticize him for slow-scoring in quest of his century. But you should also criticize rest of the team for not accelerating the batting and especially not defending 290 against Bangladesh!
Re: Re: Re: Bagladesh win ASIA CUP
by hawaldar on Mar 23, 2012 01:51 PM
Constructive Criticism would happen if we criticize Sachin for scoring slow even if we had won the match (bowlers defended that total).
But didn't you see he made up for that in the next match with a higher strike rate?
These things happen (missing out berth in Finals). All teams can't make it (Even Srilanka was a favorite before they arrived, what happened next?) Just move on... If you want to criticize heavily then do it on the double 4-0 drubbings in Tests. And hopefully you will not criticize Sachin alone for that too!
Re: Bagladesh win ASIA CUP
by hawaldar on Mar 23, 2012 01:46 PM
And for your information, Bangladesh did not win the Asia Cup (There is nothing called Bagladesh, please check). We will take your opinions later.
my heart goes to Bangladesh team. I wanted them to win this cup. They played very well but it was their bad luck to lose just by 2 runs. Bravo I slute the entire Bangla team. Congrats to Pakistan as they won the Asia cup on Pakistan national day. Double celebration for them.
