foreign teams have neutralised our home advantage of spin and home conditions by playing in IPL. BCCi should reduce the number of foreign players to just two to help develop home grown talent and to reduce the exposure of foreign playerss to our home pitches
Re: kind attn: IPL franchisee/owners/BCCI
by Raman Krishnaswamy on Apr 01, 2016 11:43 PM
Your suggestion is like the communist ideology. If you cannot make the poor rich, make the rich poor.
They won it using power in all shots and no skillful stroke, the excess power takes the ball out of ground via aerial route which otherwise many times would have proved mistimes shot landed in fielders hand, this team does not deserve win having no skill of batting. even Gayle is using power to send ball beyond lines. The westindians from day one used this technique only...
Yes, the credit should go to the Windies for the manner they approached the game. No doubt it is a team effort from them. Since we have lost only 2 wickets definitely we should have gone for a slog in the last 4-5 overs...agree to sunny that we r short of 20 runs
Re: Its True Sunny
by ALOK BHATTACHARYA on Apr 02, 2016 12:20 AM
I don't entirely agree with Sunny, commenting after seeing result (192 runs)is no big deal. However I agree Dhoni and yet to come batters should have gone all out during slog overs. Though target was competitive but he rightly said, spinners over stepping the line is not acceptable and that is turning point of match.
1. Repeatedly bowlers were bowling short wide of off stump, helping the bating..till end they were doing same thing. 2. From the very first ball indian team were looking out of character, no confidence at all. 3. Team weren't up to the spirit, no winning attitude. 4. Team would have been advised already about the pitch being bating track and will be of no use to simmers, yet no other specialist spinner was included in the team. 5. No ball by spinner, unbelievable..this only happens when there is a fix.. 6. Dhoni wasn't communicating with his bowlers except the good boy jadeja. 7. Spinners were the key to win this game, but it remains mystery why seamers were given change more often.
Dew should not be a problem in semi final and final match even I was suppose to say and day match should have been arranged. But BCCI is a crook, arrogant, profit making corporate whose only aim is profit and after 7 PM more people can watch matches
If India had chased and won, all talk would have been about the quality of the Indian batting and dew would not have got even a fleeting mention.
Let's accept gracefully that we did not deserve to be in the semis in the first place - we got there courtesy of brain fades from Mushfiqur Rahim/ Mahmudullah of Bangladesh and possibly a dodgy decision against Steven Smith of Australia.
Re: Dew is the problem...
by Mike Teflon on Apr 01, 2016 10:58 PM
Snicko confirmed Steve Smith's decision. It was not dodgy. Bonglodosh committing harakiri is NOT India's fault..
Of course, we didn't play consistently good cricket to be in Semis. That's a fact.
However, dew indeed was the problem, as it handed over the advantage to the side which won the toss. What's the problem in accepting facts.
It is not hypocrisy but how you comprehend things.
Re: Re: Dew is the problem...
by Against Pseudos on Apr 02, 2016 12:42 PM
Aus lost because of dew factor. Not because of Kohli brilliance. Thanks for accepting facts. :-)
