Yes, I am aware of what he was suggesting - I am saying whether they think he can bat or not is irrelevant........they set fields to allow him a single to get at the bunny at the other end.Andre said:
You could have mentioned about the pathetic lower order collapse and also that Ganguly started hooking/playing positively after restarting instead of ducking under the bouncers b'coz of lack of bounce when the ball is pitched short. Good article thoughAndre said:
It was more due to the inconsistency of bounce when the ball was pitched short :saint: .Laxman was almost out LBW to a Lee bouncerKenny said:Yes......some of the Indian batsman played him tremendously well - with their heads and other parts of their bodies.
Tendulkar obviously thought his bowling would be a piece of cake at the end of day 3 - so much so that he decided to stay in the pavilion.
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Well written, but I don't believe that Williams lead the attack. He just cleaned up a tail that proved that they can't bat very well. I thought it was the pressure built up by the tight bowling by Bracken and MacGill that eventually lead to the wickets. It was Dravid's bad shot (or lack of concentration) to Lee, who bowled quite poorly, that lead to the collapse. Ganguly demonstrated that he had no faith in his lower order and played like it. Patel showed real fight and maturity beyond his years by trying to keep the tail together to no avail.Andre said:
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Tendulkar, when he plays well, is great to watch and obvioulsy a threat. But Rahul Dravid is India's MVP in test matches. In tests, its not always the counter attacking which is needed. A steady head and intense concentration is needed. Dravid is the main guy and Tendulkar is part of the supporting cast IMO.anilramavarma said:
How can Sachin get those intense concentration in Cricket while he is fully committed in Pepsi, TVS, MRF, Britania, Boost, Adidas, ......advts, his multistar Hotel and his controvercial Ferrarri?ReallyCrazy said:
You r asking too much from him.!!Hey, I am not belittling Dravid or any of the other Indian performers. He has been fantastically consistent this past year and a half and a very dependable player before that. However, Tendulkar has been consistently brilliant and consistent for India for the past 12 years in both tests and one dayers. It's true that he has been having a really bad season in tests so far, but that still doesn't reduce him to what is really a massive understatement "Tendulkar, when he plays well, is great to watch and obvioulsy a threat." In fact this is his first really bad streak and if he is the champion I think he is, he will fight his way out of it in style.ReallyCrazy said:
Lets be fair here, Hayden was batting more than just out of his crease..he was about a meter down the track and the ball was hitting the very top of the stumps/bails - Was a fair enough call for me, ok he should have been out but on what was there you can see why the umpires didn't give it.garage flower said:
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