Indian Cricket!!!
I am one of those very few guys who still want Ganguly to make a strong come back but this article is not gonna be about him but about others in the team who claim they have become world beaters with just another home win...
Case 1:
I personally dont think dravid is a captain whom i would rate along with the likes of steve waugh or fleming..........he is more of our old Azhar who is very laid back in the field.He is too nice a person to be a captain I guess.Reasons for these statements being the way he captained the first 2 matches versus south africa....Agreed things went on well against Srilanka but that was because of some splendid individual performance and not because of any tight situtations which required great thinking on the spur of the moment.Jus look what happened in the first match when the last few overs the bowling was done by tendulkar and yuvraj cud have been tried and tendulkar was gifting a boundary every over and in the second match i jus dont understand why part timers were tried when agarkar,pathan and rp singh had around 10 overs between them.That is the ruthlessness that I think they lack and I think thats what ganguly had jus like the australians.
My vote:Dravid is not a good captain!!!
Case 2:
This would be brief I guess.This is about sachin ,after the first match people were all praises for him but his performance after that has been disgusting to say the least and this comes from a person who was his ardent admirer till some 2 years before.I think sachins days are over.also look at the way he bowled the other day the old magic is no more working...
Case 3:
this is something i have found absurd and i find it even more confusing because no one in the press has talked about this.Why is Zaheer not there in the team when Agarkar is there??Why is Agarkar given so many chances when saurav cant be given??I thinkhe came into the scene some 6 years before and first year and a half he did bowl well but after that i dont think he is worth a place in the team when he gives on an average some 5 runs an over,he doesnt bowl those lethal yorkers and not great with the bat,what he does bajji can do claiming to be a bowler.how the f**k can Zaheer not be there when this guy is there??Isn't this appying different standards to different people that Ganguly was accused of??Aren't Chappell and Dravid doing the same thing...Why is Balaji not there??Is agarkar given a place because he is a good friend of the formerly great Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar..I remember kambli being given so many chances and i think it was because he flew a kite with tendulkar when they were kids(sarcasm intended) and when sachin was a captain half the Indian team was from Mumbai......I cant help laughing at these people who accuse saurav of a lot of things but they are doing worse to indian cricket.To his credit Saurav has not selfishly promoted anyone jus because he knows them personally.
To wind up I am just waiting for the day when the same team having created so much hype gets raped in WACA or Wanderers against a freaking 4 pace attack and I would have the last laugh.
Sachin:Not the player he used to be
Sehwag:Still the same old player might jus be a little unlucky thats all but he is a world beater any day
Dravid:has been getting bowled a lot of times which never used to happen,only grouse is he is not a captain who can do well in crisis
Kaif:Still as susceptible to short ball,getting caught at midwicket and getting lbw early in the innings
Pathan:Seems to have an awesome sense of timing with the bat..but pray his bowling still remains as good as it used to be
Dhoni:Seems to be our answer to Gilchrist but yet to be tested against australia and england now..if it goes well he is a real find
Yuvraj:lot of flair and class,still suspect to good spin like that of Murali but would scrap through since there arent many quality spinners.But someone whom you can trust when everything else has flopped
Agarkar:jus doesn't deserve a place in the team
Harbhajan:has proved again he is a great bowler and seems to be in good touch with the bat
Karthik:deserves a place in the squad but not sure about the team ,could be a second spinner till a better one is found since he doesnt have great control
JP Yadav:good bowler for one day matches
RP Singh:i just love this guy,has a kiddish face bowls really well just see the bounce he extracts out of indian pitches fields really well for indian pacers.Good find
Raina:looks to be really matured and cool head,should be groomed to be in middle order,awesome fielder along with yuvraj and kaif.My shout he should be the future indian captain!!
Case 1:
I personally dont think dravid is a captain whom i would rate along with the likes of steve waugh or fleming..........he is more of our old Azhar who is very laid back in the field.He is too nice a person to be a captain I guess.Reasons for these statements being the way he captained the first 2 matches versus south africa....Agreed things went on well against Srilanka but that was because of some splendid individual performance and not because of any tight situtations which required great thinking on the spur of the moment.Jus look what happened in the first match when the last few overs the bowling was done by tendulkar and yuvraj cud have been tried and tendulkar was gifting a boundary every over and in the second match i jus dont understand why part timers were tried when agarkar,pathan and rp singh had around 10 overs between them.That is the ruthlessness that I think they lack and I think thats what ganguly had jus like the australians.
My vote:Dravid is not a good captain!!!
Case 2:
This would be brief I guess.This is about sachin ,after the first match people were all praises for him but his performance after that has been disgusting to say the least and this comes from a person who was his ardent admirer till some 2 years before.I think sachins days are over.also look at the way he bowled the other day the old magic is no more working...
Case 3:
this is something i have found absurd and i find it even more confusing because no one in the press has talked about this.Why is Zaheer not there in the team when Agarkar is there??Why is Agarkar given so many chances when saurav cant be given??I thinkhe came into the scene some 6 years before and first year and a half he did bowl well but after that i dont think he is worth a place in the team when he gives on an average some 5 runs an over,he doesnt bowl those lethal yorkers and not great with the bat,what he does bajji can do claiming to be a bowler.how the f**k can Zaheer not be there when this guy is there??Isn't this appying different standards to different people that Ganguly was accused of??Aren't Chappell and Dravid doing the same thing...Why is Balaji not there??Is agarkar given a place because he is a good friend of the formerly great Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar..I remember kambli being given so many chances and i think it was because he flew a kite with tendulkar when they were kids(sarcasm intended) and when sachin was a captain half the Indian team was from Mumbai......I cant help laughing at these people who accuse saurav of a lot of things but they are doing worse to indian cricket.To his credit Saurav has not selfishly promoted anyone jus because he knows them personally.
To wind up I am just waiting for the day when the same team having created so much hype gets raped in WACA or Wanderers against a freaking 4 pace attack and I would have the last laugh.
Sachin:Not the player he used to be
Sehwag:Still the same old player might jus be a little unlucky thats all but he is a world beater any day
Dravid:has been getting bowled a lot of times which never used to happen,only grouse is he is not a captain who can do well in crisis
Kaif:Still as susceptible to short ball,getting caught at midwicket and getting lbw early in the innings
Pathan:Seems to have an awesome sense of timing with the bat..but pray his bowling still remains as good as it used to be
Dhoni:Seems to be our answer to Gilchrist but yet to be tested against australia and england now..if it goes well he is a real find
Yuvraj:lot of flair and class,still suspect to good spin like that of Murali but would scrap through since there arent many quality spinners.But someone whom you can trust when everything else has flopped
Agarkar:jus doesn't deserve a place in the team
Harbhajan:has proved again he is a great bowler and seems to be in good touch with the bat
Karthik:deserves a place in the squad but not sure about the team ,could be a second spinner till a better one is found since he doesnt have great control
JP Yadav:good bowler for one day matches
RP Singh:i just love this guy,has a kiddish face bowls really well just see the bounce he extracts out of indian pitches fields really well for indian pacers.Good find
Raina:looks to be really matured and cool head,should be groomed to be in middle order,awesome fielder along with yuvraj and kaif.My shout he should be the future indian captain!!
posted by sat at
9:00 PM
5 Comments:
sorry maite... U have done a reasonable assessment but currently i feel we now playing with a 11 member team and not a 10 member.... and thats good!!!!
beg to differ for that even now its 10 member with agarkar in the team the same team without agarkar and a different captain would still be good
Nice presentation
Ganguly and Chappel didnt like each other and it was time gang to control his emotions ... he was freaking out...As for agarkar he is performing pretty decently though i feel Balaji should also be brought in.. but i heard he is not fit...
The mantra of an ODI match is a player e should perform and be a match winner for may be 4 out of 10 matches.. and even if he is not gonna do well in the rest.. he should not be dropped!!!!
I personally feel that to judge one's captaincy a couple of series is not enough.... Secondly the question to be answered is can Ganguly return as a player and not as a captain?? Further on i want to talk rather than type regarding sehwag goin to opening position and ganguly's poor show in last few games...
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