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Group B - Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Bermuda

Pup Clarke

Cricketer Of The Year
Seeing as India play Bangladesh in May for 2 tests.Is this what the Indian test side should look like?.

Wasim Jaffer
Dinesh Karthik
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Sourav Ganguly
Yuvraj Singh
MS Dhoni
Anil Kumble
Sreesanth
Zaheer Khan
Munaf Patel
 

Raghav

International Vice-Captain
Seeing as India play Bangladesh in May for 2 tests.Is this what the Indian test side should look like?.

Wasim Jaffer
Dinesh Karthik
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Sourav Ganguly
Yuvraj Singh
MS Dhoni
Anil Kumble
Sreesanth
Zaheer Khan
Munaf Patel

The strength on the paper dont coincide with the strength on the field....stop talking of this funny side for a moment
 

JustTool

State 12th Man
Let's not forget the excellent performance by SriLanka is also the reason for India's demise here.
Well, sounds like all the excuses folks like you make all the time. People said the same thing about Bangl aand SL creamed them

Wake up guys.

Tendulkar should retire and India should clean up their act.

Ask everyone to play ONLY domestic cricket with no endorsements for one year - that will straighten out things.
 

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
dravid - according to you once his captaincy goes, india will be alright...again why do you think so?
Please do not assume things.

ok so what is your plan?
Have mentioned it earlier:

Pratyush said:
I wouldn't mind waiting a series or two if that would seem the better option. We also have likes of Tendulkar and Kumble to become the captain if need be. Regarding dropping some seniors, no one has said that cannot be done but as I said, I do not believe just doing that will solve any thing as we have been changing players over the past couple of years.
 

StumpMic

School Boy/Girl Cricketer
As a SL fan I was really happy to see SL score 254 when jayasuriya, jayawardene and sangakkara combined for only 28 of 78 balls. With this bowling/fielding attack, i feel confident whenever we have 240+ plus runs to defend.
In the end it turned out to be an excellent score. I am glad to see the arrogant Indians finally put in their place. I hope Sri Lanka go onto to win this World Cup.
 

Davey

School Boy/Girl Captain
Yay as a Sri Lankan fan too i am happy we won :D...

bad luck to India, i just dont get their line-up its like full of batsman and very little bowling power, i think they should try to find a genuine quick..
 

Raghav

International Vice-Captain
Yay as a Sri Lankan fan too i am happy we won :D...

bad luck to India, i just dont get their line-up its like full of batsman and very little bowling power, i think they should try to find a genuine quick..
They will never find a quikie until there are politics playing in the selection process
 

Davey

School Boy/Girl Captain
that really sucks, i am so happy SL has the balls to drop players who arent in form e.g Atapattu for Silva, Silva is a gun finally a young player getting a go.
 

StumpMic

School Boy/Girl Cricketer
its about time indian fans realise that their team is the most over-rated cricket team in the world...... and only indian fans are illogical enough to think that by winning against Bermuda, their team had saved their asses.... well they had another thing coming........... the Sri Lankan Lions.......


PS: TIGER's and LION's are roaring
Indian pussies should go and lick some f*******n milk.............:happy:
:laugh: They'll be licking their wounds now
 

Davey

School Boy/Girl Captain
For Sri Lanka its all about being professional now, we are known to crash and burn against sides such as Australia, everything just goes wayward i dunno whether we get nervous or what.....

i hope we can maintain this standard... little bit of improvement on the batting even..
 

Dravid

International Captain
Guys cheer up. The fat man from Bermuda will save India, India will get into the super 8, and he will become a hero in every Indians eyes.

Theres no harm in dreaming now
 

Anil

Hall of Fame Member
Ganguly and Yuvraj.. you mentioned 2 already before I even mentioned any one ;). Also, you are saying the team needs an overhaul immediately (for which I feel captaincy overhaul is necessary, without which it is farcical to say it is an overhaul in India's case), not me. I wouldn't mind waiting a series or two if that would seem the better option. We also have likes of Tendulkar and Kumble to become the captain if need be. Regarding dropping some seniors, no one has said that cannot be done but as I said, I do not believe just doing that will solve any thing as we have been changing players over the past couple of years.
Please do not assume things.



Have mentioned it earlier:
ok...in response to that do you agree that dropping non-performers and replacing them with young hopefuls could help the team especially if some of those newcomers actually perform?

as far as captaincy goes, i mentioned kumble's extermely poor odi record which should prevent him from even being in the team, forget the captaincy...also re: tendulkar, there is no past data to suggest he would make a good captain...and i just wanted to know why you thought so, you obviously are in no mood to explain so let's end this here....:)
 

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Sad day for Indian cricket. Ah well, Sri Lanka are just a much better outfit, and deserved the win.
 

viktor

State Vice-Captain
Sad day for Indian cricket. Ah well, Sri Lanka are just a much better outfit, and deserved the win.
And a great day for cricket apparently since now that the commercial favorite is out, people will see that cricket is just a game?
 

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
Seeing as India play Bangladesh in May for 2 tests.Is this what the Indian test side should look like?.

Wasim Jaffer
Dinesh Karthik
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Sourav Ganguly
Yuvraj Singh
MS Dhoni
Anil Kumble
Sreesanth
Zaheer Khan
Munaf Patel
Why on earth would Laxman not play?
 

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
ok...in response to that do you agree that dropping non-performers and replacing them with young hopefuls could help the team especially if some of those newcomers actually perform?
Yeah of course. I would term it hopefuls though. I do not believe much in young and old as long as they perform or convince some cricket gauger that he will perform (like say Atapattu).

as far as captaincy goes, i mentioned kumble's extermely poor odi record which should prevent him from even being in the team, forget the captaincy...also re: tendulkar, there is no past data to suggest he would make a good captain...and i just wanted to know why you thought so, you obviously are in no mood to explain so let's end this here....:)
There is Ganguly, Tendulkar, in youngster there is Yuvraj. Which is why I said it doesn't have to be resolved immediately. It can wait 1-2 series where we try out options regarding the squad and then go for the long term plan with a captain. Alternatively, we can select a captain immediately who may not be performing right now or in both teams yet but it will not be a popular choice.

I have mentioned in a post some where why I think Tendulkar would be a very good captain. He has one of the best cricket brains I have seen, players regard him highly. In his earlier tenure, he over taxed players, expected too much out of them and did not get the support of the board at times lik ewhen the board sent for Noel David. He got the support of the board too on occasions but I believe the captain should get more support. I think that given his past experience (bad experience can also be a great stepping stone) and his brain, plus Mumbai guys at the helm in the BCCI, Tendulkar coming back to captain would be a good choice and is also not some thing which can be ruled out. (Also given he accepted vice captaincy which he has refused for the past 2 years or so.)
 
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Prince EWS

Global Moderator
Wasn't he omitted from the team on the grounds that he was a bad fielder? If it was so, I would say, how good a fielding has the whole Indian team done barring one or two players?????
Well, he was omitted from the one day team for such (supposedly). But Pup Clarke posted what he thought the test lineup would be - and I highly doubt Laxman will be dropped from that form of the game.
 

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