West Indies with their power packed batting line up was the only team who reached the semis based on their batting skills.All the other three teams have reached the semis because of the variety in bowling department . Australi,Pakistan and Srilanka have the most versatile bowling units in the competition and they richly deserved their place in the semis.We should feel really pitiful of our team that why cant we have more match winning bowlers in our playing eleven forget in playing 15. How long do we keep on wasting our bowling talents and how long do we tolerate different principles for batsmen or bowlers.If batsmen are failing to do their job , the skipper is trying to make a point or prove a point that their part time bowling can be an asset to the team .Why is it that a bowler like balaji has no faith of a captian to bowl with the new ball in a match that India had to win in 15 overs.What was the necessity or use of winning the match by 1 runs and proving that we are as good as pakistan or australi when it comes to winning number of games..Look at how the aussies thrashed India and the pakis thrashed aussies .That should be the way to play cricket.In our team only Virat is the one batsman who is taking the attack to the opposition with his bat consistently .no body else in the team has the consistency ..not good enough to win matches by 1 run ...look how pakis won match against SA.. counter atacking from 77/7 and their bowler umar gul thrashed SA to win the match.
West Indies with their power packed batting line up was the only team who reached the semis based on their batting skills.All the other three teams have reached the semis because of the variety in bowling department . Australi,Pakistan and Srilanka have the most versatile bowling units in the competition and they richly deserved their place in the semis.We should feel really pitiful of our team that why cant we have more match winning bowlers in our playing eleven forget in playing 15. How long do we keep on wasting our bowling talents and how long do we tolerate different principles for batsmen or bowlers.If batsmen are failing to do their job , the skipper is trying to make a point or prove a point that their part time bowling can be an asset to the team .Why is it that a bowler like balaji has no faith of a captian to bowl with the new ball in a match that India had to win in 15 overs.What was the necessity or use of winning the match by 1 runs and proving that we are as good as pakistan or australi when it comes to winning number of games..Look at how the aussies thrashed India and the pakis thrashed aussies .That should be the way to play cricket.In our team only Virat is the one batsman who is taking the attack to the opposition with his bat consistently .no body else in the team has the consistency ..not good enough to win matches by 1 run ...look how pakis won match against SA.. counter atacking from 77/7 and their bowler umar gul thrashed SA to win the match.
Re: Strong bowling units
by Raghavendra Uppaluri on Oct 03, 2012 01:48 PM
Yes, your example of how pakis counter attack from 77/7 by bowler umar gul thrashing SA to win the match is perfect. To my opinion, Dhoni should have taken bhajji in the team instead of either Rohit sharma or balaji, the reason is bhajji can score on a given good day, with that we should have option of five bowlers in case of bhajji taken against Rohit sharma. Bhajji by playing ahead of raina or say dhoni should we got more momentum in high scoring. With these chances in team we should have five bowlers and a pinch hitter in team. I welcome any more improvisation in my opinion...
Re: Strong bowling units
by Abhijit Nair on Oct 03, 2012 09:07 AM
Wi made 120 all out and 130 all out so really it was not their batting. in fact they make semis with just 2 win in 5 games very very lucky
Re: Re: Strong bowling units
by priyankush ghosh on Oct 03, 2012 09:39 AM
The point I have tried to portray over here is that every team is aware of its strenths like PAK knows its their bowling ,WI know its their batting.we Indians also know its our batting .. but we have not respected the T20 format as much as PAK or AUS have done so far in this tournament because we have not utilized the strengths to our fullest potential .. we have bated very conservatively and have settled for scores of 150/5 rather than 180/9 .. look at the WI .. throughout the tournament they have attacked and only attacked and when reqd have counter attacked..against AUS they lost wicktes at regular intervals but kept on attacking ..sunil narine scored 4 off 2 balls in the last over and thrashed the last ball for boundary .. this is the attitude we have not shown..only to some extent virat and raina have attacked proactively rest of our batting line up played as per the merit of the ball and didnt manufacture shots...also WI did another thing better than india that they played their trump cards in the appropriate situations .look how they used sunil narine against NEWzealand.and also how they sued BADRi in that game ..badri bowled mostly in first 12 overs and narine bowled three overs on the death.and they turned the game in both phases.we dodnt play harbhajan when reqd. and also yesterday when we reqd wickets at the begiinning we left our trump card or main bowlers too late and relied on our part timers..so its the lack of utilizing strenths & adjusting wid format cos
West Indies with their power packed batting line up was the only team who reached the semis based on their batting skills.All the other three teams have reached the semis because of the variety in bowling department . Australi,Pakistan and Srilanka have the most versatile bowling units in the competition and they richly deserved their place in the semis.We should feel really pitiful of our team that why cant we have more match winning bowlers in our playing eleven forget in playing 15. How long do we keep on wasting our bowling talents and how long do we tolerate different principles for batsmen or bowlers.If batsmen are failing to do their job , the skipper is trying to make a point or prove a point that their part time bowling can be an asset to the team .Why is it that a bowler like balaji has no faith of a captian to bowl with the new ball in a match that India had to win in 15 overs.What was the necessity or use of winning the match by 1 runs and proving that we are as good as pakistan or australi when it comes to winning number of games..Look at how the aussies thrashed India and the pakis thrashed aussies .That should be the way to play cricket.In our team only Virat is the one batsman who is taking the attack to the opposition with his bat consistently .no body else in the team has the consistency ..not good enough to win matches by 1 run ...look how pakis won match against SA.. counter atacking from 77/7 and their bowler umar gul thrashed SA to win the match.
Team India's exit shouldnt surprise anyone. 1) Gambhir is an excellent player in domestic ipl but international T20 cricket is different, Its a different ball game whacking the likes of joginder singh & co and whacking the likes of Morkel,Steyn,Mitchel Starc ,Malinga & Saeed Ajmal. Gambhir is not in the class of Sangakara or a Jaywardene who can play good bowlers. 2) Virender Sehwags consistency and lack of brains to access situations and play accordingly has now been proven time and again.The earlier he exits indian team,the better. Again he is not in the same league as Gayle or Warner who are improving leaps and bounds day by day.Sehwag seems careless and totaly inconsistent. You cant have a player who scores on an average of 20 - 25 runs in one days & T20s. U need openers to bat through...atleast half of the overs in forms.
3) Irfan Pathan concedes at the rate of 8 per over almost every T20 game since hes played and he is carted like a spinner by lankans,pakistanis,australians and west indies at will. His batting is ordinary and pls lets not call him an allrounder.He is one of the worst bowlers in the world. Malingas slower one clocks 120kmph and Irfans fastest ball occasionaly touches 124. 4) Balaji is club class and has lost us many matches in final overs last 3/4 years, Again no real pace,no clue to bowl swinging yorkersor ripping bouncers. Why on earth would u need a player bowling 4overs for 40 invariably and not able to hold a bat and give 10 runs extra
Team India's exit shouldnt surprise anyone. 1) Gambhir is an excellent player in domestic ipl but international T20 cricket is different, Its a different ball game whacking the likes of joginder singh & co and whacking the likes of Morkel,Steyn,Mitchel Starc ,Malinga & Saeed Ajmal. Gambhir is not in the class of Sangakara or a Jaywardene who can play good bowlers. 2) Virender Sehwags consistency and lack of brains to access situations and play accordingly has now been proven time and again.The earlier he exits indian team,the better. Again he is not in the same league as Gayle or Warner who are improving leaps and bounds day by day.Sehwag seems careless and totaly inconsistent. You cant have a player who scores on an average of 20 - 25 runs in one days & T20s. U need openers to bat through...atleast half of the overs in forms.
3) Irfan Pathan concedes at the rate of 8 per over almost every T20 game since hes played and he is carted like a spinner by lankans,pakistanis,australians and west indies at will. His batting is ordinary and pls lets not call him an allrounder.He is one of the worst bowlers in the world. Malingas slower one clocks 120kmph and Irfans fastest ball occasionaly touches 124. 4) Balaji is club class and has lost us many matches in final overs last 3/4 years, Again no real pace,no clue to bowl swinging yorkersor ripping bouncers. Why on earth would u need a player bowling 4overs for 40 invariably and not able to hold a bat and give 1
The way Dhoni batted against Aus scoring at strike rate of 70 when others were all scoring at higher rates was pathetic. His choice of starting with spin after the rains also hastened the defeat against Aus. Those extra runs did count in the end. Only his fans and BCCI will say about pitch slowing down when Dhoni batted. That has been his excuse always, as if he is the king when the pitch is truly fast.
But ICC should revert to the use of the result of head to head encounter in the same round as the first tie-break criteria, before considering net run rate. Otherwise the last two matches should have been played at the same time to avoid possible adjustments.
AUS-PAK MATCH WAS FIX. ONE CAN NOT BELIEVE AUS CAN NOT MAKE 117 IN 20 OVERS. THEY NEVER TRY TO CHASE 150. ICC SHOULD INQUIRE INTO THIS LAST 2 OVERS THEY DID NOT TRY TO SCORE MORE THAN 120. IIC SOMETIME CONSIDER NET RUN RATE OR HEAD TO HEAD TO DECIDE SEMI PLACE. WHY IT IS NOT CONSISTENT IN THIS RULE. THEY SHOULD PLAY SUPER OVER TYPE OF THING TO DECIDE QUALIFIER TO STOP THIS TYPE OF FIXING.
Re: AUS-PAK MATCH FIX .. FIX
by shantisagar vaidya on Oct 03, 2012 07:00 AM
Aussies are always jealous of India.They still can't forget the defeat in 50 overs world cup.Even in australia they preferred srilanka over India for best of 3 finals.
Re: AUS-PAK MATCH FIX .. FIX
by bactam on Oct 03, 2012 07:36 AM
Why are Indian such brainless people... Australia is scared of India and jealous yet they hammered India in the last match they played. Learn to accept defeat gracefully.
Re: AUS-PAK MATCH FIX .. FIX
by Raja SBR on Oct 03, 2012 08:23 AM
Australia = WATSON WARNER HUSSEY. If they are removed soon the opposite team easily win the match. Pakistan did it.
