It is interesting poised at the end of the day with Srilanka getting all out around 200 and shocking three wickets down for India. We have to wait and see how Virat and Rohit survives in the first hour. Every thing depends on the first hour of tomorrow. Ishant did extremely well with five wicket haul. KL Rahul normally a decent fielder spilled three catches today and enabling Srilanka to reach 200 mark
Ishant responded brilliantly on a helpful wicket. It simply does not make sense, blaming him all the time for sub-optimal performance on square turners.
Re: should not hurry in celebrating
by Shikari Shambu on Aug 30, 2015 07:33 PM
After all, we Indians love to celebrate at the first instance of success. Wasnt he supposed to be dravids replacement even before he could finish playing 10 tests? That is the level of sense some of us possess.
K.L. Rahul was very disappointing as a batsman, I have a doubt, whether he has the test match technique and temperament. No doubt he had scored a century in second test but in that innings also he was spared 2 times as his catches were dropped. What was disappointing to see is that, he got out on all of 3 occasions in a very similar manner. All 3 times he clearly failed to read the swing whether to leave it or play it, and all 3 times he had committed with his pads out and keeping his bat in the air completely miss-judging the swing and the line and on all 3 occasions the ball came back sharply and hit the stumps. More than getting out, it is more the way (same way each time) he got out was very careless. That was clear indication that he has not learned anything from his mistakes and repeating the same mistakes again. A good batsman is one who always learn from his mistakes and try to avoid the repetition of the same mistakes. But he seems to be casual about his mistakes and that is highly unacceptable.
K.L. Rahul was very disappointing as a batsman, I have a doubt, whether he has the test match technique and temperament. No doubt he had scored a century in second test but in that innings also he was spared 2 times as his catches were dropped. What was disappointing to see is that, he got out on all of 3 occasions in a very similar manner. All 3 times he clearly failed to read the swing whether to leave it or play it, and all 3 times he had committed with his pads out and keeping his bat in the air completely miss-judging the swing and the line and on all 3 occasions the ball came back sharply and hit the stumps. More than getting out, it is more the way (same way each time) he got out was very careless. That was clear indication that he has not learned anything from his mistakes and repeating the same mistakes again. A good batsman is one who always learn from his mistakes and try to avoid the repetition of the same mistakes. But he seems to be casual about his mistakes and that is highly unacceptable.