They both were keen to provide Sachin a farewell at the cost of team India & did that precisely.Why could board not invite a world eleven for one match at Mumbai against India with their money power than inviting a rank bad WIndies?The ease with which Indian batsman scored against weak attack & bowlers got wickets was a sure suicide for a much tougher tour in SA.The defeat in ODI series followed by second test & an almost in first shows the timidity of captain & his team against quality stuff.
Re: Zaheer Khan (7/10)
by kalyan krishnan on Dec 31, 2013 09:23 PM
Shami who certainly performed better than Zaheer is rated less. Another surprise. Is the author still going by Zaheer's past records?
All this analysis is pointless. Irrespective of how many points each player gets, the result does not change. Team BCCI again easily defeated abroad, after barely managing to defend 458 in 1st Test.
(contd..)Now finally Captain cool ? Perhaps he was too cool in those hot conditions in SA to allow slip by positions of advantage. Has the magic started waning ? Appears so because even during the earlier last two overseas Test series debacles or even in the home series loss to England and Pakistan Dhoni individually could not have been blamed to a great extent. But in this series, with such a dynamic young side at disposal Dhoni certainly could not live up to the challenges of rising to the occasion at crucial junctures both at individual level as well at captaincy level. He certainly needs to strategies and plan better for the upcoming tours. The NZ and subsequently(?) the England series should be acid Test for Dhoni. While the England series is little away , a poor showing in the immediate NZ series, against a relatively weaker Test side just cannot be accepted. Can Dhoni mange a turn around ? Finally, now coming to the No. 1 SA side, for once at Durban they managed to throw off the ‘’chokers’ tag and proved why they are the No.1 side !They too now move into Post King Kalis era the way we have moved into post Sachin era and SA too already seem to have found the right successor !ABD. The Aus tour will be watched with keen interest back home in india in the background of Aussies’ recent revival in the Ashes series..The Protease cannot take the spirited Aussies lightly.
