Even if Aussies played along with pakis for fear of facing India, the blame lies only with our team's performance reaching a stage like this where we are at the Mercy of someone else .
Now is the right time for an introspection and change in perspective . The biased , unfair and corrupt selector srikanth is gone . Now in T 20 , if Gambhir can;t apply himself and play , he should be replaced by manoj tiwari . Even otherwise Manoj shouldbe taken in to replace Rohit Sharma who should never be in this team. Secondly , old war horses like Zaheer Khan should be asked to step down . Even Irfan Needs to go after probably a year. balaji defenitely has to go . We need genuine pacers like umesh Yadav, varun Aaron , Dinda and the like . We need one more young fast bowler to pep up the fast bowling battery . Ashwin should lead the bowling attack with Ojha or Chawla or both in the department . harbhajan if he wants to continue for a year should show his worth .Sehwag has to be warned or retired. Today i was thinking it was a dupe of his who was batting . Now the biggest changes should be Dhoni , the most unimaginative captain in T 20 has to step down and if he has to play as a wicket keeper batsman , he has to play under a new captain and i recommend ( dont laugh because i have reasons ) a positive player like Ashwin to captain the side . If sachin could play under Dhoni or for that matter Dravid, then Dhoni can defenitely play under him, if he wants . otherwise he should step out
Like Watson or Gayle or Perera or Albie to win T20s. We had Yousouf Pathan but he was mishandled by the team mgmt. Guys like Kohli are consistent and good but one or two raw hitters needed and of course in bowling we know lot of improvements needed
All the best to the pakistni team. After so much discrimination stil they are able to qualify. 20-20 is not just winning but how good you win on the day of the match.
Re: Wheres the Spirit of Cricket gone now?????
by tornado on Oct 03, 2012 12:44 AM
why did india gave away so many runs deliberatly to australia and didnt even try winning that match so they would not have to blame others for their failures...
Re: Wheres the Spirit of Cricket gone now?????
by madhusmita mohapatra on Oct 03, 2012 12:45 AM
Why blame Aussies ? But why we took 17 overs to score just 129 against PAK? Austrlia scored 143 against us in less than 15 overs.
Re: Re: Wheres the Spirit of Cricket gone now?????
by caeser b on Oct 03, 2012 12:48 AM
The scenario was not clear for the previous matches.
But for todays match it was all well clear....Each team knew what was needed.... Hence the intentional underplaying and not going for victory hurts most ..... Thay must be banned.....Such things should not happen again....
Re: Re: Re: Wheres the Spirit of Cricket gone now?????
by madhusmita mohapatra on Oct 03, 2012 12:52 AM
Problem is ICC follows hardly any rule. A high profile coach was murdered but Scotland yard was prevented from doing a full thorough investigation and matters were kept under carpet. All is controlled from Dubai by Dawood gang. ICC is not FIFA. It has no money no plan. Irish captain says they dont get enough games as ICC does not have money even to spread the game. ICC cant do any investigation properly let alone banning Aus or Pak. In Olympics, Chinese top rank doubles player were immediately banned but in Cricket it will never happen.
Re: Re: Re: Wheres the Spirit of Cricket gone now?????
by madhusmita mohapatra on Oct 03, 2012 12:54 AM
I do agree that Aus played some horrible cricket in the end. Same Hussye hit 14 runs off Ajmal in last T20 WC semi finals and today he was hardly in any mood to play. Some selfish motive for sure
Re: Wheres the Spirit of Cricket gone now?????
by Cool Indian on Oct 03, 2012 12:47 AM
Spirit of cricket??? are you joking??? paki aussie match saw match fixing at its best,folks!Yes aussies threw away this match! who will not when paid nicely by hejjadis and pakis and d-gang!Boon the paki coach is a previous aussie player and hence the bargaining was easy too! Just watch the video of that match and all of you will know what I am writing too!why blame poor indian players though they should have scored much more and not wasted time in the middle!shame!
Re: Re: Wheres the Spirit of Cricket gone now?????
by tornado on Oct 03, 2012 12:54 AM
hahaha....so why not Pakis pay them for final and win the cup..accept defeat....Its not IPL that fixing is done
Re: Re: Wheres the Spirit of Cricket gone now?????
by Kumar Raghuraman on Oct 03, 2012 12:59 AM
Dhoni is a great gambler after Devanand, he plays as per he gets benefitted. He had properly delivered it today's match by fooling billions of cricket lovers.
Re: Wheres the Spirit of Cricket gone now?????
by Gugga on Oct 03, 2012 12:54 AM
abe dhakkan do not cry and be big boys! India lost, not it was fixed. Pak beat India in warm up match convincingly while chasing, but lost to India so timidly! may be Pak India match was fixed to make the group more interesting? Just get a life!
Re: Wheres the Spirit of Cricket gone now?????
by Gugga on Oct 03, 2012 12:57 AM
Its never fixed when India wins, watch Pak India semi final 2011! Good you all should cry and play IPL!
Re: Re: Wheres the Spirit of Cricket gone now?????
by caeser b on Oct 03, 2012 01:24 AM
It was not match fixing ..... But it was intentional underplaying only for the sake of qualifying....... Is such play Ok with you???
SEHWAG AND GAMBHIR BOTH DIDN'T DESERVE PLACE IN THE TEAM. GAMBHIR WASN'T IN GOOD FORM AND SEHWAG BODY LANGUAGE AND APPROACH TO THE GAME IS VERY MONOTONOUS AND IRRITATING TO THE SPECTATORS. HE SEEMS HIS PLACE TO BE SECURED. DHONI FIELD PLACING IN MIDDLE OF OVER WAS SUSPICIOUS AND MAY BE HE TRIED TO WIN ONLY AND NOT QUALIFY TO SHOW HIS ARROGANCE THAT BY KEEPING SEHWAG OUT HE WAS RIGHT. PIYUSH CHAWLA WAS MISSED. DU PLESSIS INCLUSION WAS EXPECTED TO CURTAINS FOR INDIA.
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
Re: Replace biased Dhoni immediately from Skippership
by Informed on Oct 03, 2012 12:42 AM
manoj tiwari and ashok dinda are useless players. Do you want quota in cricket as well? get a life.
Re: Re: Replace biased Dhoni immediately from Skippership
by bharatpremi on Oct 03, 2012 12:45 AM
Then Rohit Sharma, Raina are useless batsmen. Occasionally scores runs once in 10 matches failing in other 9 matches. Zaheer,Pathan and Balaji are no match for Dinda s a bowler in present form. It is good that with quota player of Dhoni, india made a early exit.
Re: Re: Re: Replace biased Dhoni immediately from Skippership
by Cool Indian on Oct 03, 2012 12:49 AM
Paki aussie match saw match-fixing at its best,folks!why blame indians???Yes aussies threw away that match! who will not when paid nicely by hejjadis and pakis and d-gang!Boon the paki coach is a previous aussie player and hence the bargaining was easy too! Just watch the video of that match and all of you will know what I am writing too!why blame poor indian players though they should have scored much more and not wasted time in the middle!shame!
1. Match against Aus cost this. 2. It was difficult to restrict SA to 120 even without bowling mistakes made today 3. Aus played badly today. Other words if you take openers out they are very weak. 4. Only SriLanka seems quite consistent.
Re: It is sad
by Cool Indian on Oct 03, 2012 12:37 AM
Yes aussies threw away this match! who will not when paid nicely by hejjadis and pakis and d-gang!Boon the paki coach is a previous aussie player and hence the bargaining was easy too! Just watch the video of that match and all of you will know what I am writing too!why blame poor indian players though they should have scored much more and not wasted time in the middle!shame!
Re: Re: It is sad
by madhusmita mohapatra on Oct 03, 2012 12:42 AM
But why we took 17 overs to score just 129 against PAK? Austrlia scored 143 against us in less than 15 overs.
ICC must probe Pakistan Austrlia match Pakistan 150 Australia 117/7 Why didnt australia go for a win with three wickets in hand? Was Australia bribed for losing handsomely to Pak?
Re: ICC must probe Pakistan Austrlia match
by madhusmita mohapatra on Oct 03, 2012 12:31 AM
Only few nations play and still things may not be clean. Many are losing interest in this game. I am surprised that many of friends i know who see cricket did not even bother much to view this world cup as they seem to lose interest due to so much of boring and frequent cricket
Re: ICC must probe Pakistan Austrlia match
by Deshbhakth Hindu on Oct 03, 2012 12:32 AM
First BCCI must probe why Dhoni kept out Sehwag in match Vs Aus.
Re: ICC must probe Pakistan Austrlia match
by goutam sen on Oct 03, 2012 12:42 AM
Next thing we should do is to ban Watson & Warner from IPL, since they made Australia lose poorly to prevent India from going to semis.
Awesome performance by India. Dhoni rocks. His "youngistan" rocks. What performance. Keep it up. Oh yes even Sachin did not play in this series. So just look what happened to our youngistan. They lifted the World Cup yet again. Good going.
