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argh 
freakin drop catches.
freakin drop catches.
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**Official** India in Bangladesh
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Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Freakin Karthikargh
freakin drop catches.
To people who are watching the game, what are causin all these chances? Pace, accuracy, swing, cut or a mixture of all four?
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Luck would be anyone's guess.Freakin Karthik
To people who are watching the game, what are causin all these chances? Pace, accuracy, swing, cut or a mixture of all four?
Turbinator
Cricketer Of The Year
Very well played India.
Just in case anyone who didn't watch the game and is wondering the average speeds of the Indian bowlers.
Zaheer: about 134 kph.
Ishant: about 135-136 kph.
RP Singh: about 137 kph.
Ishant and RP both, occasionally, touched 140 kph.
Just in case anyone who didn't watch the game and is wondering the average speeds of the Indian bowlers.
Zaheer: about 134 kph.
Ishant: about 135-136 kph.
RP Singh: about 137 kph.
Ishant and RP both, occasionally, touched 140 kph.
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
I think that is perfect. I think that VRV needs to take the tearaway raw pace role, in the occasion he is picked, which should not be every game, since Zaheer, Ishant, RP Singh all seem to be accurate, swinging (or bouncing in Ishant's case) RFM and LFM bowlers who can bowl most of the overs with the aid of spinners.
In case anyone does not know, that translates to:
In case anyone does not know, that translates to:
Bold captaincy from Dravid again. With 3 days and 16 overs to go, and only 3 wickets down - a safer approach would've been to bat out the day and another hour on day 3 and put up about 700-750.
Instead he put faith in bowlers too, they rose to the task, and we are at 610/3 & 53/5 (instead of say 675/4).
With a wee bit of luck (or fielding up to international standards) could've been something like 40/6 or 40/7.
Instead he put faith in bowlers too, they rose to the task, and we are at 610/3 & 53/5 (instead of say 675/4).
With a wee bit of luck (or fielding up to international standards) could've been something like 40/6 or 40/7.
R_D
International Debutant
apparently rain forecast for last 2 days of the test... lets hope it stays away.. otherwise those 2 misses today could prove costly.India should be able to wrap Bangladesh up at least by the end of day three. Five wickets in a day is not hard (well, it is for Bangladesh). Then giving the spinners a go on day four and five should leave India with an easy win.
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Forecast seems fine to me: http://weather.cnn.com/weather/forecast.jsp?locCode=VGZR
Turbinator
Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah rain doesn't seem to be a problem really for the next 3 days. I hope... 
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.especially after india's really good performance so far...it better stay away!Yeah rain doesn't seem to be a problem really for the next 3 days. I hope...
Turbinator
Cricketer Of The Year
Yea true! But usually luck is never with Team India.
thats a fair point TBH!
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Luck is hard to define. For a country like Australia, luck doesn't seem to come into the equation since they've won the last three world cups, won the ashes (and besides 2005, had done so for a while) and the champions trophy.
Secondly, they compare his knocks in speed to Karthik and Dravid and say that Tendulkar was far slower than them. Consider that they were both on 80 and he was not, surely a batsman can score far quicker when they have had a good look of the pitch and have already amassed a large fifty. Also, he does not have a conversion rate of almost 50% for nothing, he is careful to make sure he reaches hundreds, is that a crime?
I am aware Tendulkar is not the batsman he once was, but what the person who wrote the article must understand, is that you cannot criticise a hundred scored at a strike rate of over fifty. He gave chances away, but was resiliant not to let them bother him and he continued to concentrate through what he found to be a tough innings.
Truly, I am Tendulkar's number one critic but this article is a load of rubbish. For one, it is no secret that he is weak against left arm off spin bowling. Secondly, he scored a hundred didn't he and a hundred is a hundred isn't it.
Secondly, they compare his knocks in speed to Karthik and Dravid and say that Tendulkar was far slower than them. Consider that they were both on 80 and he was not, surely a batsman can score far quicker when they have had a good look of the pitch and have already amassed a large fifty. Also, he does not have a conversion rate of almost 50% for nothing, he is careful to make sure he reaches hundreds, is that a crime?
I am aware Tendulkar is not the batsman he once was, but what the person who wrote the article must understand, is that you cannot criticise a hundred scored at a strike rate of over fifty. He gave chances away, but was resiliant not to let them bother him and he continued to concentrate through what he found to be a tough innings.
Dasa
International Vice-Captain
Yeah, agreed, strange article to come out with now. It really pisses me off when people go on about scoring rate in Tests...it's rarely an issue, and India's best batsman of the last few years has traditionally scored slowly. I don't know why Cricinfo'd come out with an article criticising Tendulkar now, when he's actually scoring runs. It makes it seem like they have a specific axe to grind, and the tone of the article comes off as rather petty imo.
Personally, although I'd love to see Tendulkar smash the ball to all parts as he used to do in his pomp, I don't think it matters if he's scoring slowly and looking uncomfortable at times as long as the runs are coming. It'll be interesting to see how he goes in England anyway - in South Africa, on far more difficult pitches and against far better bowlers, he didn't do too badly nor did he score excessively slowly either.
Personally, although I'd love to see Tendulkar smash the ball to all parts as he used to do in his pomp, I don't think it matters if he's scoring slowly and looking uncomfortable at times as long as the runs are coming. It'll be interesting to see how he goes in England anyway - in South Africa, on far more difficult pitches and against far better bowlers, he didn't do too badly nor did he score excessively slowly either.
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i don't think you can rubbish away the whole article...his century is a nice addition to his record 100s collection and his imposing pile of international runs but that article showed the significant difference between his approach and that of the other batsmen...it might not make that much of a difference against bangladesh but against the quality teams, it certainly could....in fact this batting lineup(with the honorable exception of dravid) including tendulkar has been getting exposed in "less friendly" conditions in the recent past....and i would not take these dominant batting performances as a sign of any sort of resurgence until they(and he) actually do it against a good team....
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Dasa
International Vice-Captain
Have to disagree with that part in particular. Dravid failed in South Africa while Tendulkar didn't play in the West Indies. In that Test India lost at home against England, everyone failed. Anyway, my issue isn't with the content of the article so much...there are some valid criticisms although I generally disagree with them...it's that the tone of the article is overly negative imo and I find the timing of it perplexing.
it's not really as simple as that and you know it...in this case, you are talking about the most experienced batsman in cricket today and he is facing the weakest side(if you don't count the zimbabwe club side as an international team) in international cricket in conditions that offer little to no help to the bowlers and with your team completely on top...