honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
There is no gambhiring involved in pointing out the fact that the pitch is still good for batting, our captaincy and team management are doubling down on their own stupidity and are obstinate to idiotic levels, its a small ground with a very fast outfield which means big shots against spinners almost always have a more than even chance of coming off, our bowlers are not good enough except Bumrah and maybe Ashwin and Kuldeep.
There is definitely a lot of luck for Bazball with all those wickets they get off half trackers and all the shots they edge or dont time that fall into places where there are no fielders but they are also making their own luck by coming at our bowlers and by trying different things at our batsmen. Stokes almost always had a second slip when attacking with the left arm spinner and a leg slip for the off spinner. Had Rohit had those guys instead of someone under the helmet, England may well have been 3 down going in to end of play today.
That has been the difference. Clear headed thoughts and management who seem to be doubling down on their philosophies but are actually pretty pragmatic and change course where needed against a management who seem to be calm, collected and playing old school test cricket but are actually ragged and obstinately doubling down on dumb decisions every time.
I have seen pieces of bad captaincy often. Rahane having absolutely zero imagination and captaining by rote (6 overs for the bowler here, 6 overs for the bowler there, only then there will be a change) against NZ letting them get away with 1-0 when it should have been 2-0 is the most recent example. Before that, we had the completely brain dead selections in 2018 tour of South Africa by peak Koach (Shaz and Kohli) when we kept dropping Bhuvi and Rahane for Shami and Rohit, neither of whom were good enough on form or on attributes needed for those conditions at that time. And then there was whatever **** Dhoni would pull in SENA whenever he felt we did not have what was needed to take the game on in those conditions. This is right up there with them, and today's decision to start with Mukesh means I think this has eclipsed those to be the worst captaincy/management decisions I have seen from a Team India thinktank since 2011.
There is definitely a lot of luck for Bazball with all those wickets they get off half trackers and all the shots they edge or dont time that fall into places where there are no fielders but they are also making their own luck by coming at our bowlers and by trying different things at our batsmen. Stokes almost always had a second slip when attacking with the left arm spinner and a leg slip for the off spinner. Had Rohit had those guys instead of someone under the helmet, England may well have been 3 down going in to end of play today.
That has been the difference. Clear headed thoughts and management who seem to be doubling down on their philosophies but are actually pretty pragmatic and change course where needed against a management who seem to be calm, collected and playing old school test cricket but are actually ragged and obstinately doubling down on dumb decisions every time.
I have seen pieces of bad captaincy often. Rahane having absolutely zero imagination and captaining by rote (6 overs for the bowler here, 6 overs for the bowler there, only then there will be a change) against NZ letting them get away with 1-0 when it should have been 2-0 is the most recent example. Before that, we had the completely brain dead selections in 2018 tour of South Africa by peak Koach (Shaz and Kohli) when we kept dropping Bhuvi and Rahane for Shami and Rohit, neither of whom were good enough on form or on attributes needed for those conditions at that time. And then there was whatever **** Dhoni would pull in SENA whenever he felt we did not have what was needed to take the game on in those conditions. This is right up there with them, and today's decision to start with Mukesh means I think this has eclipsed those to be the worst captaincy/management decisions I have seen from a Team India thinktank since 2011.
