Here I am in office, watching India go down the drain again!!!
As I have said before and others have vouched their consent on this: we cannot play on fast bouncy pitches, espcially when the seamers are high on confidence and they know they can rattle the top order like a stack of bowling pins....
Sehwag promised a fightback...and got out to a terrible shot, Tendulkar was lured in the corrider by the expereinced Pollock..Dhoni came, Dhone roared for a while and Dhoni went....
No one seems to understand the point of the game--TO WIN, and that can happen when someone puts his head down and decides to stay there for a long time building partnerships, that means taking singles, running hard, putting the pressure on the bowlers and the fielders...and hitting the loose deliveries, and if you are a genious converting the good ones into boundaries...
This approach needs methodical training, understanding of the game and the situation, obviosuly India has lacked all that or seems to lost it in the last say...8 months...
The Indian team psyche reflects that the only way they can win is to blast the opposition with an array of extravgant shots, espcially when chasing...There goes Khan ct Boucher, b Kallis for 11, stayed on the crease for 17 minutes....thats the time I take to make an omellete...and a fine one too..
Mind you this is a batting paradise, the bowlers did OK today restricting SA to 243, Gibbs played well, stayed there until the end...
six balls in an over, six singles...thats what Chappel should somehow teach the Indian batsmen, espcially the middle order, which looks frail (Murali, Kaif, Dhoni, Pathan)...Yuvraj's absence is monumental here...
There should be rules:
1. Indian middle order should contribute 150 runs, period.
2. The tail should contribute 30/40.
Am I asking for too much???
As I have said before and others have vouched their consent on this: we cannot play on fast bouncy pitches, espcially when the seamers are high on confidence and they know they can rattle the top order like a stack of bowling pins....
Sehwag promised a fightback...and got out to a terrible shot, Tendulkar was lured in the corrider by the expereinced Pollock..Dhoni came, Dhone roared for a while and Dhoni went....
No one seems to understand the point of the game--TO WIN, and that can happen when someone puts his head down and decides to stay there for a long time building partnerships, that means taking singles, running hard, putting the pressure on the bowlers and the fielders...and hitting the loose deliveries, and if you are a genious converting the good ones into boundaries...
This approach needs methodical training, understanding of the game and the situation, obviosuly India has lacked all that or seems to lost it in the last say...8 months...
The Indian team psyche reflects that the only way they can win is to blast the opposition with an array of extravgant shots, espcially when chasing...There goes Khan ct Boucher, b Kallis for 11, stayed on the crease for 17 minutes....thats the time I take to make an omellete...and a fine one too..
Mind you this is a batting paradise, the bowlers did OK today restricting SA to 243, Gibbs played well, stayed there until the end...
six balls in an over, six singles...thats what Chappel should somehow teach the Indian batsmen, espcially the middle order, which looks frail (Murali, Kaif, Dhoni, Pathan)...Yuvraj's absence is monumental here...
There should be rules:
1. Indian middle order should contribute 150 runs, period.
2. The tail should contribute 30/40.
Am I asking for too much???
posted by deep cover at
11:09 AM
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