In the present era it appears that every team struggle abroad. South Africa got a 3-0 drubbing in their last tour of India. Australians also lost heavily here. Now England got a drubbing in Australia. This time, so far India have played two tests in SA and lost both.They dropped catches galore while the home team accepted most difficult of chances. Yet, so far it is South Africa the winners, scored the lowest total (130) in the series!Had we taken the catches, situation could well have been different. The positive side is our bowlers have taken all of 20 wkts in each match. Other teams will next think twice before offering pace friendly wickets to Indian bowlers.
Re: WCricket abroad
by Raja Mitra on Jan 18, 2018 03:15 PM
Lets not discuss about Indian Men cricket anymore. The team is not worthy of so much attention
Which built up an aura of invincibility around this India team. We were told again and again that now this team can win anywhere. Expectations soared. Reality is biting indeed.
India played too much cricket at home conditions and with far more weaker team like Srilanka , scored runs at will and got undue fame /money for the easier staff...there should be some sanity among indian cricket lover to judge these performance in a rational scale and force the team combination according to the opponent . There is no point of making 3 centuries in 3 innings against such team but a well made 50 is much worth against conditions in south africa. We should pay far less attention to cricket which are suboptimal
India have always won abroad when they have batted first..and with this present side I cannot see Ind winning chasing any sizable total..if Ind lose the toss again and have to bowl first in the last test..Ind might lose that test too.
The quota system should be brought into cricket also like South Africa mandatory of six black_players. That will definitely change the Indian Cricket who is always losing abroad.
Time and again it has been proved that except 1 or 2 players Indian batsman cannot handle and guide fast bowling. This weakness still persists with helmets and gaurds. This is very well captured by foreign teams and they play on grassy wickets.For decades this problem is not rectified and it will continue till we have fast and bouncy pitches in India. This is similar to Indians playing hockey and football in Astro turf pitches.
All our so called batsmen from top to down lack application when required. Even after so many matches our players yet to learn how to leave away moving balls. In the recently concluded match including Virat Kohli has not learnt how to play a ball which was coming below the knee. It is better we do not talk about our fielding. Our players instead of showing aggression after taking a wicket or two better show patience how to stay at the wicket and score runs. Frequent changing of players in the playing XI has cost us the series. It seems captain has to learn a lot
