It's not an all expenses paid Caribbean Trip. Wake up
Well it's 4-1 finally. After you loose the series, it really doesn't matter it's a 4-1 or a 3-2, a loss is a loss. Rahul will still say that they would not want to repeat this same feat in the test matches and is looking forward to play some positive cricket in the coming days. Thank you Rahul that you weigh your words carefully but the recent debacle shows that it's not the lack of experience among your players that is playing spoilsport but their attitude. In my previous post I suggested about replacing Dravid by uthappa in the opening position and to bring Dhoni at number 3. Rahul Dravid did exactly that. He played everything straight putting his best pieces at best places. But, he failed to enthuse positive attitude and the same sense of confidence among his players which has helped them to win some of the series in the recent past. It's like most of them start feeling homesick on the field and want to stay on the wicket for the minimum time possible.
Uthappa swings his bat at almost everything as if the youngster feels that if he won't do this, he will be out of the next match. Dhoni missed the cut and his collection today was really awful. Nobody would forget the dropped catch of Gayle who went on to score a fifty. Rahul the Jammy again got run out. How many times this will happen to you Rahul? In statistics you even beat Ganguli in getting your partners run out for most number of times, well this time you found yourself on the wrong end. Nobody to blame, you should better improve yourself.
yuvraj is not to blame as he is the only person who is showing a lot of confidence and aggression in his batting. kaif bats like he always do, trying to save his position in the team. Raina was a dissapointment.
Well, in the bowling department Munaf Patel was never close to even 140 km/h. Then was that all media hype that we have finally got a pacemen who can bowl at matching speeds with atleast Fidel Edwards? Maybe. We know our media well. If ganguly plays, it becomes an issue and when he don't then again it becomes another issue. Agarkar again bowled with a lot of discipline and Bhajji recieved a special treatment from Brian Lara.
West Indians were surely playing according to a plan. And fortune really favors the brave. See how Hinds rocked the Indian boat upfront. All the moves by Lara paid (even the way he moved his fielders around also made some catches possible). In the end it was Gayle again who never gave an inch away, not to the bowlers and not even to the batsmen. Surely, the West Indians will go into the first test with a positive mindset as they outrun Indians in every department of the limited overs edition. Well, Rahul Dravid have to find a solution to the inexperience of the batsmen or to the mindset of the players who more seems like enjoying their all expenses paid carribean trip. Wake up man, if you can't beat a team whose one of the strike bowlers gets injured in the very first over of the match then, how come you even think about repeating the 1971?
Uthappa swings his bat at almost everything as if the youngster feels that if he won't do this, he will be out of the next match. Dhoni missed the cut and his collection today was really awful. Nobody would forget the dropped catch of Gayle who went on to score a fifty. Rahul the Jammy again got run out. How many times this will happen to you Rahul? In statistics you even beat Ganguli in getting your partners run out for most number of times, well this time you found yourself on the wrong end. Nobody to blame, you should better improve yourself.
yuvraj is not to blame as he is the only person who is showing a lot of confidence and aggression in his batting. kaif bats like he always do, trying to save his position in the team. Raina was a dissapointment.
Well, in the bowling department Munaf Patel was never close to even 140 km/h. Then was that all media hype that we have finally got a pacemen who can bowl at matching speeds with atleast Fidel Edwards? Maybe. We know our media well. If ganguly plays, it becomes an issue and when he don't then again it becomes another issue. Agarkar again bowled with a lot of discipline and Bhajji recieved a special treatment from Brian Lara.
West Indians were surely playing according to a plan. And fortune really favors the brave. See how Hinds rocked the Indian boat upfront. All the moves by Lara paid (even the way he moved his fielders around also made some catches possible). In the end it was Gayle again who never gave an inch away, not to the bowlers and not even to the batsmen. Surely, the West Indians will go into the first test with a positive mindset as they outrun Indians in every department of the limited overs edition. Well, Rahul Dravid have to find a solution to the inexperience of the batsmen or to the mindset of the players who more seems like enjoying their all expenses paid carribean trip. Wake up man, if you can't beat a team whose one of the strike bowlers gets injured in the very first over of the match then, how come you even think about repeating the 1971?
posted by Raj @ 2:40 PM
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