It is really heartening to see the overseas jinx broken at last by the young side with a 4-0 drubbing scenario now looking unlikely. Indian batting only can get better from here on.The stand in captain Virat kohli has done well to lead from the front hitting a match saving century. Others like Murali Vijay,Pujara .Rahane,Rohit too have chipped in with useful contribution. Shikhar Dhawan unfortunately missed the opportunity on a good batting wicket. While batting in full flow he looks really good but when he gets out it looks a very poor dismissal. The coach has to help him get over this peculiar contradiction he faces every time. Indians are still not completely out of the woods as they need to play out at least little over a session .to be safe. One important observation. The way Nathan Lyon is getting spin and turn Ashwin must be going through real heartburn. The repeated decision of team management to ignore the front line spinner to play the first Test is something beyond my comprehension. Shouldn’t he have been picked ahead of Karan Sharma logically ? True his records are not very flattering but how can a debutant be picked ahead of him in the very first Test? Why pick Ashwin at all for the series ? Someone else can be given the chance should the team management not have confidence in him.Unless he is played and made to learn to adapt to foreign pitches he can never improve and measure upto on the overseas trips.Instead of being a mere passenger better he be sen
Re: after 6 LONG YEARS
by M S Dhoni on Dec 11, 2014 03:09 PM
so do u expect uSELess_dhonI to score century OVERSEAS, who cnt bat even 10_overs on fast n bouncy pitches. even kumble, agarkar,ratra and afghanistan wicketkeeper too scored century OVERSEAS ...
dhoni_hsntplayed even 10_good innings on fast n bouncy pitches of aus,sa,eng,wi. no wonder the batting average of bowlers is better than Dhoni...heheheheh
