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From Official Cricket Blog:
http://BCCI.rediffiland.com/
Greg Chappell Shows Middle Finger !!!!!
A cricket fans club from Kolkata will be going
to the Kolkata High Court to file a defamation
case against Greg Chappell about the middle
finger incident, if he decides to comes back
as a director of the National Cricket Academy.
They have already got 4 witnesses ready
against Chappell, and the video footage of
the incident alongwith the one on a TV news
channel where he admitted to have done so
deliberately.
From Official Cricket Blog:
http://BCCI.rediffiland.com/
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Not sure of what…Indian team is upto and what does BCCI wants from the team….but the commercial world is enjoying its ad campaing…who\’s not?
Why are we selecting Venugopal Rao and RP Singh? Venu cannot bat quickly nor rotate the strike, he may be a better bet in test than in one dayers. RP Singh sprays the ball all over and is very predictable. Whatever wickets he took were all off ordinary balls, does not have variety nor pace- we have much better bowlers than him who should be given chances. We should persist with VRV despite Kevin Pietersens assault on his bowling in the last one dayer. He is a good prospect
In my opinion, Agarkar’s main problem is his inconsistency, especially his economy rate is high in one days. However he is a wicket taker and can give vital breakthroughs which can win games. His fielding in outfiled is excellent and rarely misses a catch. His throws back to the wicket keeper from the deep are very quick and accurate. So overall is an asset compared to so many bowlers. Much better than Balajis, Nehras, Zaheers .In the recent 2 games in Abu Dhabi he really bowled excellently and was in the 140kphs mostly
one wonders why virender sehwag is in the team after such a poor chian of scores. just because he is vice captain? batting for him is just slashing the bat without looking at the ball where it has pithed. as a fielder he is very sluggish. inthat respect at least kaif is far far better. sehvags body language is an indicatio of ” i wouldn’t care less”. and on the top of it he is been appointed as captain for the nex two matches. where are we heading india?
If Sehwag doee not come into some kind of a reasonable form, I would pick Gambhir. Similarly, a new player or even Ganguly can be picked instead of Kaif.
Harbhajan - It was a close call versus Powar. But after having seen Powar on TV in the last 2 ODIs against England I leaned towards Harbhajan. I like Powars bowling. But he needs to lose about 15 pounds and be more agile in the field.
Dhoni - I would not take him for Tests, but prefer him in the ODIs. His less than world class wicket keeping can worrisome in Tests but in ODIs it can perhaps be offset by his dashing batting.
World Cup 2007:
First a few comments about 2003 World cup.. It was poor judgement on the part of the selectors to leave out Kumble and Laxman. They both should have been in the playing 11. With both of them in the team and if we had elected to bat in the final we could have given Australia a much better fight.
Even now, for 2007, select Kumble and Laxman. Experience counts.
As of today, my team for 2007 WC would be,
Laxman (We need his superior technique especially against high quality fast bowlers like Ntini, Pollock, Lee, Gillespie,…)
Tendulkar (I am willing to give him more chances in ODIs although not in Tests)
Dravid
Raina
Yuvraj
Dhoni
Pathan
Kumble
Harbhajan
RP Singh
Patel
12,13,14,15:
Sreesanth
Venugopal Rao
Sehwag? (a lot depends on his peformance in the next few ODIs)
Kaif? (same as Sehwag))
hi
i read ur blog and it was nice
Hi,
Read your blog. Enjoyed it..
Samarth Shetty
It is a worth watching for us and worth winning for the team which put
all its efforts and talents.every match is a treat to our eyes .Any way we
cant put one players name specfic that today india won means it is bcoz
of dhoni or yuraj it is good if we look at it like a team effort.hope INDIAN
team continue this and atleast this time it will try to snatch up the world
cup and it will happen when we are alive.and one proverb that i really
wanted to quote for the INDIAN team is \” EXPERIENCE IS A
WONDERFULL THING IT MAKES YOU TO RECOGNISE THE MISTAKES WHEN
WE DO THEM AGAIN\” so, learn from the past experience and plan for the
future all the best.
Hai
I am comletely supporting pradeep.
These days some are, even though they are indians. they are claiming as
they are from someother country and critisising their own country
against the favour of what so called their country. This is shy for them.
Hai,
This is pradeep from Hyderabad. really iam suprise of Pakisthan come
back after a worst performence in last Series with India. Ofdcourse every
dog has its day. but really this series is completely for the favour of Pak
rather than India . they are not finding so hard althrough they loose
early wickets. any way i expect real fight back from our indians againest
pak but some times it seems to gone.
Hope Our team uses all posible thing to got series
Say All da Best to all……….
Yours
Cricket Lover
Pradeep .M
Hyderabad
+91 9866510458
hi all of you could we surely ask Mr. Aloo to shut up and play cricket and
not anything else please. He being such a professional should not only
know the rules of the game perfectly but also know how to react at this
stage of his illustrious career which looks like a total waste as he just
literally came at Indians and also threatned the relations might not be
good enough not surprising the relations are not any good either. And
for Mr. Moin please do not make such open statements without knowing
who is it that you are talking about , shoaib should still remember the
beating he got in the world cup maybe not he is not yet warmed for this i
guess i am surely it will follow in the coming matches not only by Sachin
but by the rest of the team who supposedly has a defective arm which
gives him the undue advantage of chucking we should say . Obliy me god
save cricket with such players.
Pakistani Capt complains of ‘Unsporting behavious”. Have I heard it right.
The man who is captain of the most unsporting / arrogant / abusive
cricket team in the world has the cheek to talk about ‘unsporting
behaviour’. What Rahul’s boys did may be unsporting by rest of the
world standards, but by Pakistani standrads its nothing. Guess they
have spent quite some time with these so called hosts and now are
learning from them
Hey there,
Even though I am Pakistani, I read your blog with regularity. I noticed in
your last update, Inzi\\\’s cackle, that you seem to be really upset at
India\\\’s
loss. Your complaints don\\\’t really have any backing, you\\\’re just
complaining because of your loss. I don\\\’t mean to be rude or anything,
but you see, the complaints are coming from the Pak camp even though
they won… if they were coming after a loss, then the Pak team would be
complaining. So coming after a win, you should know that they are
genuine concerns and you should not dismiss them in such a manner.
The same goes for Moin Khan, the Indian nation is overreacting because
of the loss… Inzamam was obviously not taking a run, so down to the
rule, he was out, but that move truly was against the spirit of the game.
Mike Holding said the same thing about the move, I don\\\’t see you
telling
HIM to shut up….
hi, I am missing your postings. Please write.
I guess teams that r not performing should play against INdia to find their form back. Look at Windies guys, they started to move. India has great team but only on papers and home soil. Let’s hope they don’t get eliminated in preliminary league. Incosistancy, Incosistancy………..Ganguly must be njoysing every moment of this.
Check this one out on HT.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/htcricket/14_1682114.htm‘
I would say that even if Sachin is averaging 41+ in last 2 years (due to injuries or whatever) he is still much better than most players during the last 2 years.
Mr. Ranjan, Agarkar has been in the team for the last 8 years. And guess what? there was no Pawar or any other person from Mumbai at the helm of affairs. Do you know what that means? It means you will have to start wondering all over again as to what the secret behind Agarkar’s inclusion is.
Hi Prithviraj Hegde:
Your knoledge of cricket is as good as our selectors ( Read Ajit Agarkar posts).
Why not take a holiday and start writng about some stuff you really know?
I have been wondering all along the secret of Agarkar’s inclusion in the team though he has not done any great performance. Now that Pawar is at the helm of affairs we will see more and more Mumbai players in the team at the cost of other deserving players.
hi, i have created my iland but when i click on add blog i only get the write up box with no post button , can you tell me what to do. it will be of great help.
BTW, a word about Ganguly. I will try to be as objective as I can. He is not someone who can be discounted. Not yet. Yes, he has his short comings against genuine pace. His failure againt pace according to
me was more worrisome than his supposedly tardy fielding. He was definetly a good captain. It is not unthinkable that he would lead India again in light of the humiliating losses to Pakistan and England. But it is going to be a difficult task since he has to go back to domestic cricket and make his way up to prove himself worthy of inclusion in the *playing 11*. That is the key. But it is not impossible. Statements that he cannot ever be selected are irresponsible in my opinion.
As for Chappell, thats 2 strikes so far against him (Pakistan and England). Losses can be rationalized sometimes but the first responsibility of a coach is to teach his wards not to surrender.
Select Raina:
A talented batsman and a superb fielder. Young and untried but so far has shown maturity beyond his years.
Select Venugopal Rao:
Another batsman with talent and class. He deserves a chance in tests.
Select RP Singh:
He has shown enough pace bowling talent to persist with.
Select Akash Chopra:
This is a guy who did an adequate job and at times even better especially in Australia againt Gillespie, Lee atc. Scored a string of 50s and also proved to be an excellent close in fielder. Yet axed to make way for flashier players. Perhaps boring but resolute and consistent. Bring him back and give him another chance.
My 11 would be,
Jaffer
Laxman
Dravid
Kaif
Raina
Karthik (WK)
Pathan
Kumble
Powar
Sreesanth
Patel
12,13,14,15 would be
Yuvraj
Venugopal Rao
RP Singh
Akash Chopra
Select Kaif:
He has a decent overall test record and scored a superb 91 to save India and yet he is dropped! Just because he was
a replacement player? This is utterly ridiculous!! It is not as if Yuvraj has 50 tests under his belt with an average
of 50+. Yuvraj is not a Dravid or a Gavaskar. He is a promising youngster who did well in the Pakistan series. Which is good
but he does not have a right to a spot in the test team a soon as he is fit. He has to wait for another turn.
What kind of message are we sending to performers like Kaif?
Select Dinesh Karthik:
I am not sure if he is still active in domestic cricket and India A team. But if he is, he should be given another chance.
He was axed without a good reason in the first place. He has good batting talent and is a better wicket keeper than Dhoni.
May not be exciting like Dhoni, but test matches need consistent performers.
Select Powar:
He can be given a chance. Harbhajan is not doing that great.
Select VVS Laxman:
I cannot remember a more irrational decision by any national selection committee than the one to drop VVS. This is a man who scored that epic 281, considered by many past players as one of the greatest in the history of the game. And his average over 70+ test matches is a good 44.xx. If selectors had shown better faith in him, his confidence would
have been even higher and he would have developed into an even greater batsman. Instead, inspite of good recent form in Pakistan, they axed him. What injustice and lack of judgement! He is capable of delivering as a opener or in the middle order. He has the talent
and has proved it over a long time under pressure situations (which seperates men from boys). You just don\’t drop a classy proven test match batsman to bring in youngsters because they show promise or have done well in ODI. Proven test match performance under pressure should be value. Just ask tha Australians. I bet he would walk into their team.
Drop Dhoni:
He had some exciting ODI innings and a couple of reasonable test innings but ruined it with the abject callous
display in Mumbai test 2nd innings. Yes, its is true it was one instance only but when you consider the gravity
of the team situation it is almost inexcusable. Besides, and this is very important in my view, he is not a test
match standard wicket keeper and there are keepers with far better ability behind the wicket. Missed
stumpings and catches can prove very costly. They cannot be offset by brief exciting innings now and then.
Drop Harbhajan:
He had his good days and a few glorious ones like in 2001. But has failed too many times in the recent past.
There is no harm in giving someone like Powar a chance.
Indian test team has been brought down to earth and banished into the dungeons and they deserve it. They put up a spineless
display. No body grudges losing to a better team after a spirited and tough fight. But to lose to an english team without 5 of
their original 11 players (I am not putting down the replacement players; they rose to the ocassion superbly) is utterly shameful
especially when the original team itself was considered to be the underdog in the first place.
Conversely, no praise is high enough for the young english team. They showed magnificient team work and the ability to perform under pressure.
In my opinion the following changes need to be made for the next *Test* series:
Drop Tendulkar:
I am reminded of the story called “The naked emperor”. It is high time selectors said enough is enough.
Drop Sehwag:
He is fine for ODI and a superb striker on dead test batting wickets (usually drawn mathes)
but under trying conditions he has failed too often.
Hi, Finally got to post one!The Indians did a great job but what happens at Mumbai? Do they stick to the 5 bowler theory. If so, why didn’t they bowl Piyush enough? And what happens to Sreesanth now?
Ramesh Shetty
Hi Prithviraj,
I have read your blog for the first time n found it interesting. By the way did you spend your childhood in Margao Goa and did you attend Loyola High School? Please let me know. I am Bossuet
Hi,
Todayfor the first time I read your blog.It is very nice.Go ahead.
Sudheer.
Hi…..
Cograsulation for whole indian cricket team.
Really indians come back in very good form & win series by 4-1.
team india told to pakistane team, 6 bowler like s.akter & 6 batsmans
like inze,hucq also can\\\\\\\’t do any thing.
Raju.B
Hi,
A lot is being said abt indians being unsporting and shit. But the bottom
line…. We won and we will keep winning…. and Moin Khan can eat dirt..