One loss, one washout, another lost opportunity for India to make it to the knock out stage in a premier tournament. I think we will hear Indian team captain and management will blame it on luck for their exit, however I see some of things that were fundamentally wrong to start with. Here's a few:
1. What's Ishant Sharma doing in an ODI team. His form has been awful, he is clueless whether he should be a wicket taking bowler or should just focus on maintaining line and length and contain runs and in the process did neither. Tell this guy to take a break and have him play only tests in the next couple of years.
2. Why bring back Rahul Dravid? Two to three years back, BCCI wanted to field young guns and look in to the future. What happened to all the talk on building a team for next World Cup? Dravid had one decent knock in the lost match and his running between the wickets was pathetic and he was instrumental in Gambhir's run out. Is BCCI going to keep him that much longer so he can play next World Cup? Raina should be the one coming in at #3 regardless of the situation of the match.
3. What's the role of Yusuf Pathan? He is not bowling his full quota of 10 overs in most of the matches and his economy rate is over 5.5. When batting he is not used as pinch hitter, he floats around different batting positions and he is averaging 20. He is at best, fit only for T20.
4. Players like Harbhajan and RP Singh have played enough at the international level to be called established cricketers, yet they don't come up with inspiring performances when the team needs. Harbhajan is extremely inconsistent and get defensive the moment opposition attacks.
5. India cannot call themselves and stay as #1 team unless they improve dramatically on their ground fielding. Except for Yuvraj, Raina, Kohli & Karthik (if they play) , fielding has been dismal for the last several years.
Let's see what BCCI does for the next tournament. Hopefully Sehwag, Yuvraj, Zaheer Khan will all be fit by then.
1. What's Ishant Sharma doing in an ODI team. His form has been awful, he is clueless whether he should be a wicket taking bowler or should just focus on maintaining line and length and contain runs and in the process did neither. Tell this guy to take a break and have him play only tests in the next couple of years.
2. Why bring back Rahul Dravid? Two to three years back, BCCI wanted to field young guns and look in to the future. What happened to all the talk on building a team for next World Cup? Dravid had one decent knock in the lost match and his running between the wickets was pathetic and he was instrumental in Gambhir's run out. Is BCCI going to keep him that much longer so he can play next World Cup? Raina should be the one coming in at #3 regardless of the situation of the match.
3. What's the role of Yusuf Pathan? He is not bowling his full quota of 10 overs in most of the matches and his economy rate is over 5.5. When batting he is not used as pinch hitter, he floats around different batting positions and he is averaging 20. He is at best, fit only for T20.
4. Players like Harbhajan and RP Singh have played enough at the international level to be called established cricketers, yet they don't come up with inspiring performances when the team needs. Harbhajan is extremely inconsistent and get defensive the moment opposition attacks.
5. India cannot call themselves and stay as #1 team unless they improve dramatically on their ground fielding. Except for Yuvraj, Raina, Kohli & Karthik (if they play) , fielding has been dismal for the last several years.
Let's see what BCCI does for the next tournament. Hopefully Sehwag, Yuvraj, Zaheer Khan will all be fit by then.
1 comments:
sorry my dear!
the honeymoon for Dhoni is over!
let us get back to reality of 'old' cricket team!
bravo!
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