Rubbish statement...Every team takes home advantage...Doesn't England & Australia take home advantage by making pitches for fast bolwers...why dont they make spin friendly pitches...they have got into habit of targetting India...
You should keep your mouth shut. When England Newspapers and Crowd was humiliating Indian Team after the defeat where were you that time. If a Team lose the match does not give you right to humiliate and publish such pathetic pictures and articles in local newspaper.
Its our wish whom to play and whom not to play who are you to blame us for that. This is Cricket and we are free to do anything with the Team selection.
Re: Keep your mouth shut
by Ramachandran Nair on Oct 25, 2012 03:18 PM
Yes, I do agree with you Sir, it was not a mere celebration (in England) but humliation - tarnish the image of india across england.
Re: Keep your mouth shut
by Santhanam on Oct 25, 2012 04:15 PM
Dont worry. These English Men would get the hammering of their lives in this Series. They would be dancing to the tunes of Indian Spinners. Its gonna be humiliation bigtime for them in this Series. The Humiliation plan has already started when Sandeep Patil & Co. chose NOT to include any Spinners in the Warm ups. Way to go!! For the first time the Board, the Players, the Media are all set for an 'English Humiliation'. Its 'Pay back' time.
Who is Michael Vaughan?Is he currently playing. Does'nt he know that India does not have quality spinner. Actually our selectors does not want to expose our weakness upfront. Our openers are out of form. With No dravid and laxman and now Tendulkar who is on verge of being kick out is also out of form. Raina is playing in A team so to prove a point and so is Yuvi who has just came in. With poor Batting Line up and poor bowling its better that we send our B team, Atleast someone or the other will come up and perform.
There is no foul play at all here. The spinners place is already cemented in the team. Ashiwn, Ojha and Bhajji. There was no need to try out a new spinner. It was better to try out the pace department which lacks depth.Thats why i believe no spinners have been tried as there places are already fixed in the team
Re: Question
by Oscar on Oct 25, 2012 03:14 PM
10000% agree with you. Selectors want to test p[ace bowler against England and hence want to use this game fully to see which paceman can be fitted in the final selection
If Mr. Vaughan and Mr. Lyoyd are so concerned about team India making use of home conditions and term it as 'pathetic', wat abt their tactics when Indian cricket team visited England last? should one term it as 'miserable'. Set the records first before you criticize others..
Who is Vaughan to question the Indian A team selections? Cribbing Englishmen asusual!! Next they wud Crib about the hot Weather here. They'll start preparing list of excuses for their 3-0 or 4-0 loss in the Test series soon. Good Tactics Sandeep Patil & Co not to include Spinners in Warm-ups..
The self proclaimed Paragons of Cricketing morality are at it again. When they call the Indians ' poor travellers ' 'poor tourists ' albeit from a cricketing perspective, they exhibit selective amnesia, conveniently brushing under the carpet - the home advantage of the so called English conditions. Where the ball in trajectory or off the pitch takes prodigiuos swing and the silly partisan English press goes to town singing paens about the Jimmy Andersons and Steve Finns and about the fragile footwork of the opposing batting dispensations. But then, who can dare mock at such pedestrian and disparaging views of the English commentators who wax eloquent but not beyond censure. Take it on the chin - old fellas and try saving the game and the turnstiles at the dwindling cricket crowds back home in ol' blighty.
