I take strong reservation to the term "injury hit" South Africa. Hello, they lost only 1.5 bowlers to injury. I do not see anywhere the term injury hit when any mention is made of India's trip to England in 2011. India almost lost its full team to injury. If S.Africa are without Kallis, Smith and Steyn then India is without Sachin, Sehwag, Dravid, Ganguly, zaheer and Yuvraj. Bottomline is India has bench strength now which S.Africa lack, India beat them fair and square, there is no shame in feeling good about the Indian victory.
Re: Biased view
by Shikari Shambu on Jun 11, 2013 09:05 AM
WTF! India lost 1.5 bowlers?? Why not 1.6 or 1.7 bowlers?
(though I would agree that many players were having a bad time with their fitness in England, 2011) 2011 whitewash was attributed to luck, lack of spinning pitches and cramped schedule by the captain appointed by BCCI. How can you say there were injury hit? :) Was the captain not aware of these injuries?
India is also without Kaif, Nehra, Ravi Shastri, Siddhu, Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Prasanna, Bishan Singh Bedi, etc. ChutiyumSulphate, Sach/Veeru/Drav/Dada/Zak are people from the last generation. They are history now! There is no shame in beating any team, but the joy of beating a full fledged strong team is many times more than going by the name of a country who played great cricket at some point of time.
Re: Re: Re: bring Murali Vijay
by Shikari Shambu on Jun 11, 2013 10:10 AM
Try telling this to a Chennai guy. You will be surprised by the answer he will give you :)
India has to bring back dashing young murali vijay as he has the ability of smashing sixers like chris gayle. they must remove rohit and dinesh kartick should bat at no 3
Re: bring Murali Vijay
by navdeep johar on Jun 11, 2013 08:01 AM
U cant drop KARTIK/ Rohit THEY are future of our team... Rohit will fail mostly will play though he is a Bombay player
Re: bring Murali Vijay
by Shikari Shambu on Jun 11, 2013 09:07 AM
Hey Sharanu, you were the one who said Rohit Sharma's talent is so much that it is leaking. Now you are contradicting yourself :)
