Dhoni has consistently deprived east zone players like Manoj Tiwari and Ashok Dinda.Dhoni himself an east zone player do not want any other player from that zone to play for India.Sourav Tiwari,Varun Aaron, Wriddhiman Saha are victim of his biased nition.Manoj just traveled to Aus and now to Sri Lanka.Despite scoring century in Dec 2011 against WI at Chennai he was left out and Rohit is continuously playing and failing.even players like Raina and Dhoni are occasional run scorer. Dhoni’s keeping is dismal. He should be immediately replaced as a keeper by saga or Prather Patel or Nyman Ojha.When Manoj got a chance after 14 matches, he scored 65 runs and took 4 wickets and Dhoni was quick to shunt him after the Srilanka tour.Dinda in the last Sri lanka tour took 5 wickets in last T20 and was left out for the whole series except for the Eng match where he took 1 wicket.Dinda,Zaheer,Pathan,Balaji should have been rotated to field 2 or 3 out of these 4 bowlers, but Dinda was denied. Out of the 4 players in the bench 2 were necessarily east zone players in all the matches except the England match. Now that Mohandas Amarnath has lost his selector job to replace Dhoni as the skipper, no one else shall have guts to replace him.Mohinder is so correct.Dhoni should be replaced from captaincy in all 3 forms of cricket. In test by Viru, in ODI by gambhir and in T20 by Kohli for betterment of Indian cricket.It is to be seen if Dhoni can get chance by his keeping and batting ability i
It feels like Asia Cup all over again. Winning against Pakistan but still being disqualified to play the final. Indian fans happy to be narrow minded and ignore the disqualification to revel their victory against Pakistan which adds nothing but sheer stupidity.
give opportunity to weak sporting nations like pakistan, sri-lanka, bangladesh to win world cup in at least 1 sports bcoz of the lack of competition in cricket.. sporting giants like US, China, Russia have no interest in cricket..
Re: sluggish sports cricket
by Sachin Joshi on Oct 03, 2012 12:08 AM
Nothing more sluggish than baseball and golf. Don't know why Americans play these games?
Re: Re: sluggish sports cricket
by attacker on Oct 03, 2012 12:56 AM
cricket is as sluggish as baseball and golf.. infact we can call cricket as mini baseball.. Sporting giants like Americans, Chinese, Australians, Eenglish, Russians etc.. are not stick to 1 or 2 sports.. they are master of all.. they might play sluggish sports like Austray play cricket..
Indian team was just not good enough. Except for Kohli and Dhoni, rest were a bunch of l0sers. On top of having so many inconsistent players, they made too many mistakes and in the group of death you can't do that. Some glaring mistakes were -
- Against Australia, Pathan was not given the new ball. - Should not have opened the batting with Pathan in previous matches. - Virat Kohli should have been given few overs against SA instead of giving the ball to Rohit. - Sehwag is useless now. He plays stupid shots and somebody else like Ajinkya Rahane or Ambati Rayudu should have been selected instead of him. - More spinners should have been played against SA. The wicket was turning a lot and SA have a weakness against spin. - Giving away too many runs too fast against Australia. - Against Pakistan, once in winning position, Indian batsman could have scored runs faster and finished the match a lot earlier to reduce the pressure of net runrate in last match.
Also the selectors should find new players because they can't pick inconsistent players. Our batting and bowling was just not consistent. All in all our team just didn't deserve to be in semis. Pakistan and Australia were the better sides. Pakistani bowlers were unbelievably good today. They needed to win by a big margin and they did that. Watson and company looked absolutely clueless. Pakistan are favourites now to win the cup.
