Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Falling Short

I don't approve of T20 to be a great test of an individual or a team strength , so i wouldn't have felt if the Indians didn't win the cup ..heck i would have even not worried were they knocked out in the super eights..but the manner in which they went down disappoints me ...they have been technically found-out and it was frustrating to watch that such talented youngsters couldn't even rectify their one single flaw even on the second chance...windies have brought back memoirs of ganguly(remember those countless short-pitched balls he received for over a year ages ago) ..their failure against windies could have been pardoned cos they banged the balls in suddenly and swiftly, but with England(with much slower bowlers) they should have definitively rectified that ,becos failures for a batsmen are acceptable but not on similar deliveries,this not only cost them the game but probably their cricketing future (when such talent like" raina" cant handle a short ball it really worries) ..also i find dhoni to be too defensive in his captaincy (sending yuvraj too late out of fear, and inexperienced jadeja up) along with his batting(which has become unsuitable even for tests),only consolation was bowlers have not been worked out by any team....final word loss in T20 is not a big thing(at least for me) , but unless the batsmen strengthen technically India are under a real threat in the tougher forms of the game....

2 comments:

  1. Exactly da. The manner they went down is really bad. I'm pretty sure if Ireland or bangladesh had pace bowlers we'd have struggled if they had bounced us too. What was surprising was, Gambhir and Raina, good player s of the short ball, got out to pull shots as well.

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  2. England had better & safer wickets IMO..the windies pitches would be a lot more DANGEROUS to both the team and the individuals themselves(i still remember kumble's jaw being crushed in the last tour)...bearing in mind both sachin & shewag are not in the squad still causes lots of worries too

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