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***Official*** Sri Lanka in India
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Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Yeee haw, India win in style with Sachin smashing a lovely boundary to end the game.
Two awesome performances from India in a row. From a SL perspective, a half-fit Jayasuriya is far from beneficial, particularly with the test series not that far away. I'd say rest him, and bring in someone to take his place. Sangakkara opening is fine though, he's clearly in ripping form, he just needs to convert his starts.
Two awesome performances from India in a row. From a SL perspective, a half-fit Jayasuriya is far from beneficial, particularly with the test series not that far away. I'd say rest him, and bring in someone to take his place. Sangakkara opening is fine though, he's clearly in ripping form, he just needs to convert his starts.
Shoaib
Banned
Pratyush should now remove this sentence from his signature"Tendulkar is past his best" because SMT is back & looking as hungry for runs as he used to in late 90s.Great comeback to international cricket ,Sachin.Sehwag got out playing a very cheap shot.He was confused in two minds & thats why he offered absolutely no foot work.He is a very good opening batsman but he can become more dangerous if improves his footwork by either getting tips from Chapell or by watching videos of few of his own ininngs.Yadav at No.3 was not a good move because we already that he can play very well.IKP should've been sent at No.3 spot to boost his confidence little more so that he stats feeling like an all-rounder in ODIs.Shoaib Malik came to Pakistan team as a bowler ut later Waqar & then Rashid & Miandad gave him confidence by regularly asking him to bat at one-down & because of this reason he has now become an excellent all-rounder in ODIs.More of a batting all-rounder actually.
Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
Do you think I am saying that Tendulkar is past his best?Shoaib said:
You have misunderstood Shoaib. The quote in the signature is "Tendulkar is past his best" -- some thing said by many in the forum and around the cricketing world. I have always maintained that he is not past his best.
Cheers.
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
HAHAHAHA! Nothing against you mate, but that is absolutely hilarious. Why? Because Pratyush has been defending Tendulkar, arguing against everyone that says he is 'past his best'. Pratyush is quoting those that said he was past his best, as he intends to show that they are wrong.Shoaib said:
aussie
Hall of Fame Member
goodness what happened to SRI 
, i came home this afternoon to the surprise that the game was finished long before, didn't even get to see a ball. I doubt whether that wicket was a 120 wicket, so they better get their act together soon. Great to see Sachin back & playing well, Indian fans must be delighted 
, i came home this afternoon to the surprise that the game was finished long before, didn't even get to see a ball. I doubt whether that wicket was a 120 wicket, so they better get their act together soon. Great to see Sachin back & playing well, Indian fans must be delighted GladiatrsInBlue
Banned
Once again brilliant stuff by IKP & Sachin!!
IKP is now making the nation proud, i for one knew that i could always count on the mighty one.
IKP is now making the nation proud, i for one knew that i could always count on the mighty one.
SL absolutely at sea against the rejuvenated Indian Team led by Sachin, the Dravid/Chappell leadership Team and the brilliance of Pathan .
This is heading for the worst drubbing SL have ever had in India.
Some of the over-inflated SL batsman who show off their best against the might of Bangla and Zim and keep their best for home grounds , don't seem to be able to do the same against India in Indian pitches or are badly out of touch , and are trying to find excuses for their poor batting .
Some of the old men at the top of the order are particularly noticeably struggling .
This is heading for the worst drubbing SL have ever had in India.
Some of the over-inflated SL batsman who show off their best against the might of Bangla and Zim and keep their best for home grounds , don't seem to be able to do the same against India in Indian pitches or are badly out of touch , and are trying to find excuses for their poor batting .
Some of the old men at the top of the order are particularly noticeably struggling .
chaminda_00
Hall of Fame Member
Could not have said it better, i would add one more thing, bring back Upul Tharanga.JASON said:
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Well, it is too early to say, but if what happened over the last week keeps happening (as I hope it does), I think he will have an easy job proving those guys wrong.Jono said:HAHAHAHA! Nothing against you mate, but that is absolutely hilarious. Why? Because Pratyush has been defending Tendulkar, arguing against everyone that says he is 'past his best'. Pratyush is quoting those that said he was past his best, as he intends to show that they are wrong.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
BTW, I am not sure why not many people aren't giving credit to Agarkar/Sachin/Dravid, who had a brief chat right before Atapattu's dismissal. He hit a 4 off the first ball of the over and was timing the ball sweetly throught out the over and was unlucky to have found the fielders with those shots. And then, after a little chat between the aforementioned trio, Agarkar bowls a slower offcutter half volley, Atapattu drives, ball takes the edge and Dhoni takes a pretty good catch. That really wasn't bad batting... Sure, he went after a wide half volley, but that is what you have to do in ODIs.
Toecrusher
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
A nice article on the Return of the King!
A ‘yahoo’ moment from Sachin’s back pages
HARSHA BHOGLE
Cricket: He snapped out of his trance, rediscovered himself and saw he was 32, not 45, younger than he was before
Long before he overcame Sri Lanka’s bowlers at Nagpur, Sachin Tendulkar won the battle against his deadliest opponent. Besieged by injury, Tendulkar had allowed himself to believe that there were now things he could not do, that being the senior statesman meant he had to impose limitations on himself.
His powers of auto-suggestion, like his other powers, were substantial. Tendulkar became polite to bowlers, sometimes made them look better than they were, he nudged the ball and placed it gently. It was like the Bachchan of Deewar playing the Bachchan of Alaap. He was very good at it, but it wasn’t him.
The trance had to break some day, he had to cast aside his suit and put on his sneakers again. He had to rediscover himself, look into the mirror and realise that the man looking back at him was 32, not 45. I suspect it happened two days before the match at Nagpur.
It was a liberated Tendulkar that walked out to bat, one who had overcome the burdens he had imposed on himself. This was the child again, the same joyous little boy with his toys; he skipped from one dinky car to the other, pulled out the remote-controlled bike and cheerfully sprayed the world with his water pistol. He played the straight drive again, lofted the fast bowler, teasingly lapped the ball to fine leg and unleashed the cover-drive.
It happens to the best. The mind is made up and instinct is buried. We seek to become conformists, from making the rules we bow to them. Sometimes we grow weary with battle, the next conquest becomes daunting. We start looking at obstacles rather than opportunities, worry about getting out rather than think of scoring runs; once again we see the fielders not the gaps between them.
And we need to be convinced about our own skills. We own them but we don’t trust them anymore and that is when the environment becomes critical. Stars who are surrounded by people who tell them they can do no wrong start stagnating because fresh thought doesn’t reach them anymore, the contrary view becomes outlawed, even unpardonable.
Somebody broke Tendulkar’s defensive mind-set. Maybe he did it himself, maybe he listened and agreed but the end result was that he drove past his own barriers. The journey was thrilling, it was almost as if the result didn’t matter. And so he played the shots he wouldn’t, and some he couldn’t because of his left elbow.
Now the Sri Lankans will be worried. He may still get out early, he may still miscue shots, that cheeky run might be nipped by the direct hit but he now seeks to dominate which is what he was born to do. He sees himself as the striker again, not the mid-fielder who feeds the ball, Shammi Kapoor is saying ‘‘yahoo’’ again, not reciting Ghalib.
As captain, Rahul Dravid couldn’t ask for more. Indeed he made a handsome contribution himself, batting positively and taking the big decision. Most people find the power plays irksome, too predictable. The real challenge of the new law was always going to come on the sub-continent and Dravid showed why a good captain can take advantage of it. So too with the super-sub and while that might see a little tweak to it, these are things that need to be tried, not consigned to the bin because of rigid thought.
I suspect he will be just as happy with Harbhajan’s performance. Unlike Tendulkar, Harbhajan isn’t endowed with the coolness of mind, the complete control over performance. He is an extraordinarily gifted but attitudinally fragile young man, brilliant but stubborn, lethal but distracted.
For a long time he was convinced he wasn’t going to bowl round the wicket. Then in Zimbabwe, he relented and saw immediately the effect it could have. It opened his mind and he is a better bowler for it.
Indeed, getting the best out of such mercurial talents as Harbhajan, Yuvraj and Sehwag will be Dravid’s biggest challenge.
But it was typical of the man that on one of his best days, he chose to look at the wider picture; to remind people that on another day not everything might come off, that Pathan is still a bowler who bats! All captains look good when Tendulkar is firing.
Indeed the magnificent Jayasuriya might play the kind of innings that Tendulkar did, Sangakkara might show off his skills and the wicket-keeper’s lapses might prove to be costly. Catches might fall a foot further away and run-outs might be missed.
But India have made a beginning and it is a bold one. They will stumble but if they want to rise from number seven, this is the only way.
A ‘yahoo’ moment from Sachin’s back pages
HARSHA BHOGLE
Cricket: He snapped out of his trance, rediscovered himself and saw he was 32, not 45, younger than he was before
Long before he overcame Sri Lanka’s bowlers at Nagpur, Sachin Tendulkar won the battle against his deadliest opponent. Besieged by injury, Tendulkar had allowed himself to believe that there were now things he could not do, that being the senior statesman meant he had to impose limitations on himself.
His powers of auto-suggestion, like his other powers, were substantial. Tendulkar became polite to bowlers, sometimes made them look better than they were, he nudged the ball and placed it gently. It was like the Bachchan of Deewar playing the Bachchan of Alaap. He was very good at it, but it wasn’t him.
The trance had to break some day, he had to cast aside his suit and put on his sneakers again. He had to rediscover himself, look into the mirror and realise that the man looking back at him was 32, not 45. I suspect it happened two days before the match at Nagpur.
It was a liberated Tendulkar that walked out to bat, one who had overcome the burdens he had imposed on himself. This was the child again, the same joyous little boy with his toys; he skipped from one dinky car to the other, pulled out the remote-controlled bike and cheerfully sprayed the world with his water pistol. He played the straight drive again, lofted the fast bowler, teasingly lapped the ball to fine leg and unleashed the cover-drive.
It happens to the best. The mind is made up and instinct is buried. We seek to become conformists, from making the rules we bow to them. Sometimes we grow weary with battle, the next conquest becomes daunting. We start looking at obstacles rather than opportunities, worry about getting out rather than think of scoring runs; once again we see the fielders not the gaps between them.
And we need to be convinced about our own skills. We own them but we don’t trust them anymore and that is when the environment becomes critical. Stars who are surrounded by people who tell them they can do no wrong start stagnating because fresh thought doesn’t reach them anymore, the contrary view becomes outlawed, even unpardonable.
Somebody broke Tendulkar’s defensive mind-set. Maybe he did it himself, maybe he listened and agreed but the end result was that he drove past his own barriers. The journey was thrilling, it was almost as if the result didn’t matter. And so he played the shots he wouldn’t, and some he couldn’t because of his left elbow.
Now the Sri Lankans will be worried. He may still get out early, he may still miscue shots, that cheeky run might be nipped by the direct hit but he now seeks to dominate which is what he was born to do. He sees himself as the striker again, not the mid-fielder who feeds the ball, Shammi Kapoor is saying ‘‘yahoo’’ again, not reciting Ghalib.
As captain, Rahul Dravid couldn’t ask for more. Indeed he made a handsome contribution himself, batting positively and taking the big decision. Most people find the power plays irksome, too predictable. The real challenge of the new law was always going to come on the sub-continent and Dravid showed why a good captain can take advantage of it. So too with the super-sub and while that might see a little tweak to it, these are things that need to be tried, not consigned to the bin because of rigid thought.
I suspect he will be just as happy with Harbhajan’s performance. Unlike Tendulkar, Harbhajan isn’t endowed with the coolness of mind, the complete control over performance. He is an extraordinarily gifted but attitudinally fragile young man, brilliant but stubborn, lethal but distracted.
For a long time he was convinced he wasn’t going to bowl round the wicket. Then in Zimbabwe, he relented and saw immediately the effect it could have. It opened his mind and he is a better bowler for it.
Indeed, getting the best out of such mercurial talents as Harbhajan, Yuvraj and Sehwag will be Dravid’s biggest challenge.
But it was typical of the man that on one of his best days, he chose to look at the wider picture; to remind people that on another day not everything might come off, that Pathan is still a bowler who bats! All captains look good when Tendulkar is firing.
Indeed the magnificent Jayasuriya might play the kind of innings that Tendulkar did, Sangakkara might show off his skills and the wicket-keeper’s lapses might prove to be costly. Catches might fall a foot further away and run-outs might be missed.
But India have made a beginning and it is a bold one. They will stumble but if they want to rise from number seven, this is the only way.
Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
Now I know Indiatimes' slide shows are nothing but trash. Their latest offering ridicules the selectors for 'picking the 31-year-old JP Yadav over the 33-year-old Ganguly', like it's the biggest mistake they could ever make!
So what if he's so old? What do they want? A team full of teenagers? No please! Not more Parthiv Patels!
Then they do a skill-for-skill comparison with Ganguly. Sure, Ganguly may have far better ODI figures, but they're primarily because of his glory days in the late 90's. He now struggles like a one-day misfit, so much that JP can't be far worse than him. Not to mention, his running between wickets is absolutely chaotic, often nonexistent.
Then they compare their bowling abilities. If Ganguly was really as good as JP Yadav as a bowler, why doesn't he bowl as many overs as the strikers? Why does he just come on for an over or two? And why would the selectors actually look for all-rounders when they have him? Because Ganguly NEVER took his bowling seriously- he now bowls in the 110's, with an action of a three-year-old child, and no-balls countless times. Even as captain, he never took it upon himself to bowl his full quota of ten overs a match. And in Tests? He rarely or never bowled!
As for JP, he has not only bowled the bulk of his State/Zone team's overs, but he's also often bowled with the new ball. He now bowls extended spells, with a rather good action, and has got more pace, even if it's only in the 120's. His fielding may not be of the same standard as Sodhi or Sharma, but he does little wrong. There's a reason why he was picked. He serves a purpose. And the selectors should be complimented for that.
Bad show, Indiatimes.
So what if he's so old? What do they want? A team full of teenagers? No please! Not more Parthiv Patels!
Then they do a skill-for-skill comparison with Ganguly. Sure, Ganguly may have far better ODI figures, but they're primarily because of his glory days in the late 90's. He now struggles like a one-day misfit, so much that JP can't be far worse than him. Not to mention, his running between wickets is absolutely chaotic, often nonexistent.
Then they compare their bowling abilities. If Ganguly was really as good as JP Yadav as a bowler, why doesn't he bowl as many overs as the strikers? Why does he just come on for an over or two? And why would the selectors actually look for all-rounders when they have him? Because Ganguly NEVER took his bowling seriously- he now bowls in the 110's, with an action of a three-year-old child, and no-balls countless times. Even as captain, he never took it upon himself to bowl his full quota of ten overs a match. And in Tests? He rarely or never bowled!
As for JP, he has not only bowled the bulk of his State/Zone team's overs, but he's also often bowled with the new ball. He now bowls extended spells, with a rather good action, and has got more pace, even if it's only in the 120's. His fielding may not be of the same standard as Sodhi or Sharma, but he does little wrong. There's a reason why he was picked. He serves a purpose. And the selectors should be complimented for that.
Bad show, Indiatimes.