**Official** Asia Cup 2012

[Shri]

i.e you are a ****.

 

[Howe_zat]

I don't believe this.. some people are blaming sachin for this.. face it.. you had an score of 290 runs to defend against an ordinary team.. it is time that indians admit that they have the worst bowling attack in the world without zaheer khan.. guys like ashok dinda.. vinay kumar and irfan pathan I don't even want to play them in my worst club XI.

Criticising a performance is not the same thing as blaming for a loss.

 

[honestbharani]

HB, from the way you're still on about it, it appears that you're deeply affected. My post still stands. Your conduct in the congratulatory thread, more specifically your mention of irrelevant points like FB and cricinfo comments and the irrational need to 'balance out' the praise being heaped elsewhere is the main issue. This is not a new phenomenon on CW, and neither is it restricted solely to yourself.

Maybe you did miss it but I explicitly stated I apologize and have not posted any such posts on that thread and I did ask the mods to move my posts there to the criticism thread too... I am not deeply affected except yesterday when I was just God damn frustrated having to put up with a bunch of stupid convos and posts where Sachin was just blameless for that defeat..



And one of my last posts here was more general to our complete batting line up. I admit I did not see that knock live but I have seen the replay on youtube yesterday and I went through a lot of the reports and it seems there was a very real lack of effort by Sachin to up the ante, something that Teja and Ankit have alluded to, as well..


And honestly, I said it before.. I am not more congratulatory of this achievement for the same reasons I wasn't for Murali's 1000 wickets.. I think it is an awesome record and very hard to surpass and maybe when things cool down, I will start to appreciate the enormity of this achievement but right now, a lot of the gloss is taken away because it was a pretty ordinary knock that got him that 100th.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Maybe you did miss it but I explicitly stated I apologize and have not posted any such posts on that thread and I did ask the mods to move my posts there to the criticism thread too... I am not deeply affected except yesterday when I was just God damn frustrated having to put up with a bunch of stupid convos and posts where Sachin was just blameless for that defeat..



And one of my last posts here was more general to our complete batting line up. I admit I did not see that knock live but I have seen the replay on youtube yesterday and I went through a lot of the reports and it seems there was a very real lack of effort by Sachin to up the ante, something that Teja and Ankit have alluded to, as well..


And honestly, I said it before.. I am not more congratulatory of this achievement for the same reasons I wasn't for Murali's 1000 wickets.. I think it is an awesome record and very hard to surpass and maybe when things cool down, I will start to appreciate the enormity of this achievement but right now, a lot of the gloss is taken away because it was a pretty ordinary knock that got him that 100th.

Fair enough, mate.

 

[AaronK]

Criticising a performance is not the same thing as blaming for a loss.

criticising a batsman who made a century and take his team to a total of 290 is just wrong and unfair..290 is still a good total to defend in any track if there are decent bowlers in the team.. so there is no reason for criticising him when he already provided a good plat farm for the bowlers.

what india should do is get rid of rabish players like pathan, dinda, vinay kumar and praveen kumar.. there are no X factor to these bowlers.. they can barely bowle over 80mph..

 

[Himannv]

criticising a batsman who made a century and take his team to a total of 290 is just wrong and unfair..290 is still a good total to defend in any track if there are decent bowlers in the team.. so there is no reason for criticising him when he already provided a good plat farm for the bowlers.

what india should do is get rid of rabish players like pathan, dinda, vinay kumar and praveen kumar.. there are no X factor to these bowlers.. they can barely bowle over 80mph..

Pathan has been bowling reasonably quick recently. The trouble is that he isn't really a death bowler, he relies on swing with the new ball to do damage. India should probably allow him to play to his strengths and bowl him out a bit earlier.

Dinda and Vinay Kumar probably suffer from that X factor syndrome that you mention. Praveen Kumar on the other hand isn't so bad generally, he just had a bad day and you have to give credit to Bangladesh for putting away the stuff on offer.

 

[NUFAN]

Bangladesh are such a better team when they have Mortaza in the XI. So important having a reasonable pace bowler in the team. Also, not having Imrul Kayes makes the team better too.

 

[smash84]

so it is ind vs pak today

 

[Jono]

Big match, the chance for some Pakistan semi-final WC revenge. Should be a good match, any chance to knock India out of a tournament surely a big occasion for Pakistan.

 

[ankitj]

I now realize how much better India's world cup attack was with Zaher, Munaf, Nehra, Harbhajan and Yuvraj.

 

[Migara]

Big match, the chance for some Pakistan semi-final WC revenge. Should be a good match, any chance to knock India out of a tournament surely a big occasion for Pakistan.

Even if India lose, SL can knock them out.

 

[Jono]

With a bonus point win over Bangladesh right?

 

[Migara]

With a bonus point win over Bangladesh right?

No, by losing with a bonus point to Bangladesh, even if India wins in that case

 

[nsniks]

Pakistan won the toss, they are batting first. Sarafaraz out, Riaz In, akmal to keep

India : Jadeja is unfit so Pathan is in his place

 

[smash84]

nasir jamshed looking decent in his batting so far....but with such flat pithces you never know

 

[nsniks]

Crap Bowling

 

[smash84]

before the match hafeez tried to copy mushfiqur rahim's strategy saying "we will be looking to target india's bowling"

let's see if he can walk the talk

 

[smash84]

one thing is for certain though when (and if)Afridi comes in to bat Dhoni will bring back Irfan Pathan. That will be fun to watch. Afridi has been Irfan's bunny for some time now

 

[nsniks]

Seems like we will be chasing 300+ score

 

[Jono]

That looked out live, was definitely not going legside. **** umpiring and woeful commentary by Gavaskar.