Look, Sanz, I'm not going to bother trying to justify myself to you. I've read dozens of pieces of journalism and/or biographies relating to that tour and the ball tampering on both sides. Do I have them with me? No. I've moved several times in the last few years and all my cricket books are in the other island of NZ.
Him being too social is part of the problem.
Either Yuvraj or Gambhir has to field at slip if Sehwag wants three slips and two gullies, since Tendulkar hurt his finger and Sehwag prefers gully.
To be fair, that McIntosh caught behind was a shocker. It never sounded woody, he missed the ball clearly and there was never a feeling of "he's hit that".
Since Yuvraj has the reactions of a hippo, i'd go with Gambhir.
Wrong. Dravid,Laxman,Sehwag would be 3 of the best in the slips if Sachin is unavailable.
I said that Sehwag prefers gully (because he usually fields there), not that he's inferior to Yuvraj or Gambhir in the slips.
Perfectly reasonable given the bowling attack he's up against. Fill your boots time on day 2. Franklin's second hundred here we come, Ryder to hit a triple.
Huge deflection. Would have taken amazing reactions to snaffle that one.
But he fields in the slips in ODIs..fantastic in that position.
yes but he also wants to continue at gully as that is his long time station in this test team.. Ditto with Gambhir at Short leg... They don't want to move to a different area as a stop-gap arrangement, I guess.
Laxman and Dravid are the best slip fielders in India, then there is Sehwag and then Sachin. When all four are available Sehwag fields in gully because Sachin prefers slips and he is no shoddy fielder himself so he, being senior, gets the slips.
That was ****ing annoying.
Because he's a rubbish umpire...always has been...yet is still around, constantly making poor decisions with no one doing anything about it.
In any and every series.
