Sachin was, generally, taken to the cleaners by the English bowlers (in England) and by the Assie bowlers (in Australia). He failed in the tests and in the one dayers there. He was a mediocre success against a weak West Indian attack at home last year. Now a very ordinary Kiwi attack is tying him in knots, again in India. He was not very successful in the Asia Cup in Bangladesh. In fact his record breaking 100th international century against Bangladesh cost us the match and a place in the final. Let us face it, he is 40 now. The once magnificent reflexes that once made people compare him to Sir Don are gone. They will never come back.
Sachin says that he will continue playing as long as he is enjoying it. The thing is if you are paid a crore rupees for five days work, and where you are not accountable, any one would continue to enjoy things. The thing is that the Indian public at large is not enjoying it any more. When will he realise this, when the crowds begin to boo his appearance .. or does he even care ? Or will he go out kicking and screaming like VVS Laxman just did ?
Re: Pathetic show
by M Dhoni on Sep 01, 2012 08:30 PM
Dear Chatarpatar, FYI SRT scored maximum runs on last 3tough oversees tours of SA, Eng and Aus. Also he was second highest rungetter in WC2011 among 100specialist batsmen. Just check stats of others also before posting rubbish ESSAYS :)
Re: Re: Re: Pathetic show
by M Dhoni on Sep 01, 2012 08:43 PM
Dear Chatarpatar, Your comment is applicable to you. Kindly check the stats I have mentioned, your hallucination will be vanished :)
Re: Re: Pathetic show
by fink fanther on Sep 01, 2012 08:55 PM
dear Dhoni, his performance in Eng and Aus were below par. if he scored the most runs, it doesnt mean all was well with his batting. in fact against england, he scored when there was just no pressure on him nor was there any interest in the match. and never looked fluent even when he did get those runs. Against Aus, he looked good in patches, I agree, but on the whole was a big let down. Especially in the tri series. so all the runs he made in those tours actually mask his failures. and you supporters use that very effectively to paint a rosy picture of his batting (as you have been doing for the past so many years, in fact).
Re: Re: Re: Pathetic show
by M Dhoni on Sep 01, 2012 08:59 PM
Dear Fink, I havnt wrote that he has been outstanding. He was the lone player to play well against Steyn n co. when all others peed in SA. As far as pressure is concerned it was due to SRT n Misra that we headed fourth test to comfortable draw in Eng., but once when he got out scoring 91, we lost a drawn match. Its easy to criticize him but what other batsmen have done on last 3 oversees tours :)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Pathetic show
by fink fanther on Sep 01, 2012 09:10 PM
the series against SA was 2 years back. and in that series there were many good performers including laxman. so it wasnt as if everyone except sachin failed against steyn and co. as for your example against Eng, i can use against sachin the same logic you have used for him. so sachin did well with mishra to potentially avoid defeat. so did dravid in the earlier tests by scoring a century. but what did sachin do then? can we then say that dravid did everything he coud to avoid defeat by sachin and others let the team down?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pathetic show
by M Dhoni on Sep 01, 2012 09:16 PM
Dear Fink, So you think VVS was agood performer in SA. FYI VVs didnt score even 200runs in 6innings(Check stats). If this performance is good (acc. to you) then certainly SRT is still fabulous :)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pathetic show
by fink fanther on Sep 01, 2012 09:23 PM
sure i think VVS was a good performer. maybe he didnt get runs, but he was responsible for us winning the durban test with his 96 in the second innings and 38 in the first. the same test where SRT got a total of 19 runs in both innings put together. for me VVS was an equal hero in the series. but sadly, people like you say SRT was the best in that series.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pathetic show
by M Dhoni on Sep 01, 2012 09:49 PM
Dear Fink, We couldnt save first test because most of the batsmen failed other than SRT(36,111). We couldnt win third test bacause no one played well other than SRT n Gambhir in first innings and we couldnt put pressure on SA, also bowlers failed in second innings when SA was struggling losing 6 wickets else we ould have won series :)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pathetic show
by M Dhoni on Sep 01, 2012 09:55 PM
Dear Fink, No doubt VVS played well in second test but the real heroes were bowlers who bowled out SA on 130 and we got a good lead. Problem with people like you is that when SRT scores and others fail(TEAMWORK), you are not ready to accept his contribution. But when SRT fails and we win because of TEAM WORK (2ND TEST IN SA), SRT becomes the worst batsmen of the world :)
I dont know about you but I am proud of the fact that an INDIAN i.e SRT has achieved that milestone which noone has in 135years of cricket :)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pathetic show
by fink fanther on Sep 01, 2012 10:15 PM
i see. VVS played well, but real heroes were bowlers is it? how come it isnt 'team work' there? and when SRT bats well, it is only he who played well but 10 others failed? (your above post on the first and third tests that we drew). it is you who are using selective logic to prove your point.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pathetic show
by M Dhoni on Sep 01, 2012 10:25 PM
Dear Fink, Plz read again. We won second test because of teamwork specially bowlers but if these bowlers had played well in third test too, efforts of SRT and Gambhir would not have gone waste :)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pathetic show
by fink fanther on Sep 01, 2012 10:34 PM
right. and if SRT had failed in those tests, we would have lost 3-nil, wouldnt we? so your 'if' can be used both ways. and your statement is in direct contradiction with your team work logic. you seem to imply that SRT and gambhir were the ones responsible for us drawing the test, and the rest of the team, especially the bowlers let us down. what happened to team work??
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pathetic show
by M Dhoni on Sep 01, 2012 10:46 PM
Dear Fink, Either you cant read simple english or you dont understand simple english:)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pathetic show
by fink fanther on Sep 01, 2012 11:16 PM
for none of my arguments have you given a concrete explanation. you have only managed to divert the subject to obscure issues and in the process have managed to contradict yourself.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pathetic show
by fink fanther on Sep 01, 2012 11:22 PM
and like all sachintards, if you dont have a proper rebuttal, you attack the person himself instead of his arguments. carry on. sachin deserves fans like you. shallow.
Re: Re: Re: Pathetic show
by Avijit Chowdhury on Sep 03, 2012 09:09 PM
@ M Dhoni!!! you are absolutely wrong!!! against england in england.. dravid was the highest scorer... 461 runs...!!! against australia in australia... virat kohli scored the most runs for india... 300 runs!!! only against SA sachin scored 326 runs in tests.. and that is almost 2 years as the test series started on 16 december 2010.
Re: Re: Pathetic show
by abhishek singh on Sep 02, 2012 04:04 AM
The second don failed to ward off even one defeat in ENG & AUS. Typical Sachin fanism "he is responsible for all victories and 10 others except him are responsible for all defeats" You guys are blind to fact that he was and will never will be a match winner or match saver
THIS master blaster, except creating a record of playing 25 tests against NZ, is doing nothing for the team's contribution. He may be wishing to play as long as he wants but how long the selection committee wants to continue him at the cost of other upcoming youngsters?
Re: WHAT THIS FELLOW IS DOING ?
by Rajendra Bowrie on Sep 01, 2012 10:13 PM
ur right. But the those BCCi selectors looks like working like a paid servants, who selects players according to the BCCi's dikat, especially where Sachin Tendulkar is concerned.
Re: Gambhir Sawal
by chatter on Sep 01, 2012 08:26 PM
Gambhir is good against weak pace attacks on slow wickets. The moment the ball seams and swings he seems to dance like a frightened deer.
Like Dravid during his last couple of series we found his defense was being breached probably due to his failing reflex resulting due to age.Now with Sachin are we seeing the same? Sad!
Re: A La' Dravid!!
by Jag on Sep 02, 2012 03:47 AM
Dravid's failure was only in Aus. For Sachin, since India's tour of England it is worst. Many series without much contribution.
Our little master should play for ever . I wish he entertains us more both on field and off field "pranks" such as stealing chocolates from kids ( one of his ads)as well as team places from youngsters
