***Official*** Asia Cup

[Raghav]

Are the Indians playing too much cricket? When all of Praveen, Irfan and Ishant are getting spanked for boundaries, you get a hint. They don't miss too many matches these days. We know who needs a break, and why.

Thats the reason I say, Indian Board is mad about money and cares less about players & the sport....

 

[Raghav]

England ODI batting and Indian ODI bowling will never improve.

Thanks you didnt say.. NZ batsman

 

[Dissector]

Bring Back Ajit Agarkar !!!!

 

[haroon510]

Bring Back Ajit Agarkar !!!!

ya along with mohmmad sami lol hha


younis khan you beauty.. he is such an awsome player.

 

[Arjun]

Absolutely hate it when Irfan bowls short. Nothing pisses me off more than watching him bowl crud like that on flat pitches. Bowl to your strengths, you're not express!!!

I wonder, does India lack a research department? Common sense indicates you don't feed Salman Butt on his pads or outside off. Yet we find that mistake repeated, by a new bunch of bowlers. Teams plan out how to face opposition players including Indian, but not the Indian team.

 

[Arjun]

They can't even bowl Sehwag for more than five overs. Really.

 

[Arjun]

Now I wonder, will this mean there will be some significant changes when the Indians play their next match? I hope not; this looks a very good team, and should carry on a lot longer. But with so many matches...they may need to have a new-look team for the forthcoming SL tour- not because this team isn't any good, but they all need a break.

 

[Arjun]

Comparing the performance of the Indian bowlers with those of the Lankans, in exactly the same situation, I wonder, what are the Indians doing wrong? While the Pakistani team on show is so much better here, the Indians can't be so much worse. While Praveen Kumar had a dreadful match here, in that camp, Thilan Thushara went for more than a few. Or is it the fatigued Indian fielding that's letting the team down?

 

[Arjun]

A commentator thinks RP Singh should have played in place of 'limited' Praveen Kumar. What do you think?

 

[Anil]

I stopped playing the "what-if" game about Pak's bowling a long, long time ago.

with whatever crappy bowling they have, see how easily they thumped india...that's why i didn't feel that india was such a firm favourite...

 

[Arjun]

To sum this up, what looked like an impressive batting performance ended up looking a ridiculously weak one from the Indians. While that performance would look good on a sporting wicket, this was heavily loaded to favour the batsmen, and the Pakistani batsmen used it a lot better, hitting at least a four in every over- in comparison to the Indians pinching (or even walking) singles so often.

The Indian team now looks vulnerable on flat wickets. We don't know if the bowlers are good enough to bowl on flat wickets, especially with one less. We don't even find the batsmen good enough to bat on flat wickets, especially with one more. If they can accomplish a task with four specialists batting sensibly, you don't need so many- especially one who only gets the final smash-out overs, only to fail.

Both teams had good batting performances. However, the extra hits to the fence and into the stands by the Pakistanis made a difference. Moreover, as Amir Sohail stated, Pakistan had five regular bowlers- as against India's four bowlers and assorted mediocrity. However, when your top four bowlers are so woefully out of form, we're expecting too much.

 

[slowfinger]

with whatever crappy bowling they have, see how easily they thumped india...that's why i didn't feel that india was such a firm favourite...

Well this 'crappy' line-up sure does the job

 

[ret]

Pak keeps its hopes alive by winning its must win game .... YK ones again scores another 100 against Ind .... has he scored a 100 against any other side?

As for India, they clearly lost it when they lost 4 wkts for 129 runs inside the first 20 overs .... when is Yuvraj going to play a 75+ inning after getting those starts .... Yusuf is playing like a dud .... I didn't have high expectations from Raina for this game after his 3 match-winning performances on the trot. he was bound to fail in one of the games. they should have batted him at 4

Now it's India's turn to win its must-win game tomorrow. If it gets past SL then it will be in the final .... a couple of changes won't hurt India like getting RP in place of Yusuf and may be getting Ojha in place Ishant

recommendation for 11

1 to 6 ----> Gambhir, Sehwag, Rohit, Raina, Yuvi, Dhoni
7 to 11 ----> Pathan, Praveen, Chawla, RP, Ojha / Ishant

the players are filtering themselves and may be this is an opportunity for someone like Yuvi to play a 75+ knock and show that he deserves to be in the 11 as the youngsters doing better and with likes of Tendulkar to come in .... if 3 out of top 5 throw their wkts away after getting a start and Yuvi has been the common denominator so far then the team is bound to struggle to score a match-winning total

 

[Dissector]

I only watched a bit of the game but looking at the scorecard, it is rather striking to look at the strike rates of Dhoni and Sharma; only around 80 when the major scorers from both teams managed more than 100. On this pitch you really needed 350 and the Dhoni-Sharma partnership of 112 of around 23 overs really cost us.

 

[ret]

Absolutely hate it when Irfan bowls short. Nothing pisses me off more than watching him bowl crud like that on flat pitches. Bowl to your strengths, you're not express!!!

i think he bowled that short one to Nasir after seeing him mi**** a short one from Ishant

i guess, his idea was right but the execution wrong where we come to your point of bowling to ones strengths

 

[Dissector]

Of course on the flip side India had lost four wickets fairly quickly so they had to slow down. Like I said I didn't watch the game so it's hard for me to tell how Dhoni and Sharma were playing and whether they could have stepped on it a bit more.

 

[SJS]

Of course on the flip side India had lost four wickets fairly quickly so they had to slow down. Like I said I didn't watch the game so it's hard for me to tell how Dhoni and Sharma were playing and whether they could have stepped on it a bit more.

Dhoni made absolutely no attempt to increase the run rate. When India ended at 309, I told my wife, Dhoni has cooked India's goose and switched off the TV.

There was no way India should have scored so few.

 

[Anil]

Well this 'crappy' line-up sure does the job

 

[WhatisRight]

I only watched a bit of the game but looking at the scorecard, it is rather striking to look at the strike rates of Dhoni and Sharma; only around 80 when the major scorers from both teams managed more than 100. On this pitch you really needed 350 and the Dhoni-Sharma partnership of 112 of around 23 overs really cost us.

Maybe give some credit to the pakistani bowlers or the batsman who played soo well? or was it india who just played bad?

 

[WhatisRight]

Dhoni made absolutely no attempt to increase the run rate. When India ended at 309, I told my wife, Dhoni has cooked India's goose and switched off the TV.

There was no way India should have scored so few.

I remember when pakistan gave india a total of 299, they too should have scored atleast 325+. So its not like they didnt try, thats impossible, hes the captain and if dhoni wouldnt care about the target then who would?