what else but the sheer arrogancy displayed by dhoni in not paying heed to experts like gavaskar and other ex cricketers when they said players like gambhir and sehwag needs to be picked. where has the flamboyant dinesh kartik gone? what sin he did so as to be overlooked after great performances in the champions trophy? rohit, ishant, are there in the team as dhonis chamchas. what is sandeep patil doing? cement srini is busy arm twisting other boards for embezzling more money. who cares about the game and the viewers. cricket is logn dead when kapil and gavaskar retired.
Great Show India !!! Congrats Dhoni and Boys and Congrats to the Richest Board in the world for this performance and Congrats to the Coach and the Selectors .
Re: Great Show
by thomas mathew on Jan 31, 2014 04:52 PM
Poor show by New Zealand failing to clinch the series 5-0 against this worse than school standard team
One thing is very clear, India cannot afford to play with this team in overseas any more. Rohit, Dhawan, Ashwin, Ajinkya & Raina need to be played only in subcontinents. Bowling needs to be tried with new options like Ishwar pandey. Why stuart binny was not played despite Ashiwns failure???? Its all together poor bowling & batting by entire team & big let down.
Re: Indias ODI performance in NZ
by sivanandam lakshmanan on Jan 31, 2014 05:56 PM
why you have conveniently forgotten about dhobi & jaddu ? has they played any worth while innings. Rahane-badri, rohit-vijay, rayudu-karthik, Jadeja-binny, Dhobi-kohli(captain) Dawan-A.Mukhund or Unmukht Chand) Bhuvanesh-I.Pathan or Balaji, Ashwin-Aparajith, could these alternate players played the result could not have been worse than these.It will be even better 2-3 0r 4-1 which is better than 0-4. The above players are better in plaing fast bowling.
First of all India shoud prepare bouncy pitch like in Australia,South Africa,Newzeland.then you sea the quality of our players.Selection should on that basis.Always prepare spin pitched advantaget to Home team andlose miserably wheny Indian team tour outside India.Half the job will be done if you do that secondly instead of playing Football practise cricket specially catch pracise and throw from distance.Selection should done of players on vote not indvidual.Due to burecratism good players are not getting chance.
This is what we had predicted earlier. With such a display even that tie was a fluke result. I think bowling is a serious concern for india. Ashwin, Rohit, Shikar, and Suresh Raina should be thrown out from the side. The team for one dayers should be Gambhir Rahane Kohli Pujara Raidu Dhoni Jadeja Irfan Patan Umesh Yadav Shami Bhuvaneshwar Kumar
Re: DHONI SHOULD RETIRE
by Sudhakaran Nair on Jan 31, 2014 04:10 PM
No need at all. Cricket is a team work. There is no team at all in this series. Dhoni's mistake is that he is not selection proper people. Rohit Sharma and Dhawan are only fit to play in Asian pitches. They cannot bat in bouncy pitches. Surprising matter is that why Pujara is not selected in ODI. Gambir was left out without any point. Zaheer Khan and Bhaji should have been there. Binni just bowled one over, then he was dropped. How we will know his ability.
There are players who have won U 19 world cup. Select them ( atleast 4/5 people) include Pujara, we can see difference.
