Mr Mxyzptlk
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Heh. Again the West Indies flattering the opposition with the margin of victory. Typical.
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Mr Mxyzptlk
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Haha. Though victory is far from certain still.
Simmons. Tsk tsk.
Simmons. Tsk tsk.
The Baconator
International Vice-Captain
Can't believe India only got 268 from there 20/30 over position, doubt England would have done better mind. Fair play to WI for chasing it down though, even if they threatened to throw it away again.
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Wow, fell asleep on my couch watching Pak vs. SA with Uthappa killing it in this game, wake up and checked Fox Sports News Active (was too lazy to even move from the couch) and saw that India lost, and only made 268.
Pretty ordinary considering the start, but full credit to the WI. Bravo must have bowled brilliantly.
Honestbharani will be delighted that not only Lara played, but batted excellently.
Pretty ordinary considering the start, but full credit to the WI. Bravo must have bowled brilliantly.
Honestbharani will be delighted that not only Lara played, but batted excellently.
Buddhmaster
International Captain
Yessss, love Marlon.
Fiery
Banned
Bout time Samuels started showing some of that talent he has and Utthapa's innings was a breath of fresh air for Indian cricket I'm sure
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Wow, fell asleep on my couch watching Pak vs. SA with Uthappa killing it in this game, wake up and checked Fox Sports News Active (was too lazy to even move from the couch) and saw that India lost, and only made 268.
Pretty ordinary considering the start, but full credit to the WI. Bravo must have bowled brilliantly.
Honestbharani will be delighted that not only Lara played, but batted excellently.
Oh yeah!
Not only did we get to see some good cricket, our seats were almost right on ground level. We were picking LBW appeals and leg byes and what not from there. That's what I guess the Americans will call 'courtside' seats. They showed us a few times on TV too, though not clearly. We were always in the background. If any of you get to watch Sachin's dismissal again, you will see during the replay when they zoom in on Morton leaping and catching, you will see some of the audience right behind him. We were among those.
Can't really fault India too much, tbh. I felt Lara employed his bowlers quite brilliantly, esp. by placing faith on Bravo after THAT over. Bravo was bowling brilliantly in that second spell. He was even getting the ball to nip around. It often happens in chennai, the wicket is real flat, with the extra pace and bounce only helping the batsmen play their strokes that much more freely but when evening comes, esp. in January (which is winter for us) and you get the coolness setting in and the lights coming on, all of a sudden the ball starts to do a bit. It is not much by any stretch of the imagination, but after having been so flat, it does make a difference even if the ball moves only the slightest bit imaginable. Kaarthick's dismissal showed that, I think. I haven't gotten to watch the replays yet, the screen went off at that time, so I still am not sure if he nicked it or not, but that ball did hold its line after pitching, rather amazing on such a track in the slog overs.
I think the two crucial moments were when Dravid holed out to long on and that Sreesanth over. Dravid should have carried on for a few more overs before playing the big shot, IMHO. With only Yuvraj (on a comeback) and Kaarthick to come, India needed to consolidate a slight bit more. He went for broke a little too early and picked a wrong option too. Dravid is not the type of player who can clear long on too many times, esp. of someone like Gayle. Yuvi's shot was pretty poor too but he was on a comeback and looked rusty all the while, even in the field.
Lara's batting was a treat to watch. It was a bit of a masterclass on how to play spin. That six of Kumble was particularly amazing, given that he actually got too close to the pitch of the ball and basically had to dig it out right out of his shoes. Samuels doesn't play good knocks too many times, but it is funny how his good knocks always seem to have the strike rates of above 100. He bats at 4 or 5, for God's sakes and the field is generally spread out for the major parts of his innings. The crowd was rather sporting too, as usual, once we got over the disappointment and woke up to the fact that India are losing this one. They were cheering wildly when Lara was on 49 and ditto with Samuels. Kaarthick once again looked the part behind the stumps. IF India are gonna have Kumble in their ranks, they must once again consider letting Kaarthick be the keeper and play Dhoni as a batter, because Dhoni almost always struggles against Kumble. But I hope Kaarthick can get more consistent with the bat.
Raina disappointed again with the bat. Not good for him. He is wasting too many opportunities right now. And even though I am a big fan of his, after THIS kind of a performance from Uthappa, Gambhir has to be the one to sit out. I guess this is the side we may see at Baroda:
Ganguly
Uthappa
Dravid
Tendulkar
Yuvraj
Dhoni (wk)
Pathan
Agarkar
Zaheer
Kumble
Harbhajan
But ideally, I would drop Yuvraj, he is still looking too under cooked for my liking. It is better to concentrate on winning this series first and then try him out against Sri Lanka.
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Why? It's not like India can lose the series. A draw is a very respectable result and it's more important to have one of your best ODI batsmen in shape for the World Cup than winning a series ahead of drawing it. Yuvraj needs as much cricket as he can get right now.
Evermind
International Debutant
After their dismal showing in the last few months, the least India can do is register a series win. 3-1 now that 4-0 is impossible. At home, against a vastly inexperienced WI side (caps of Ganguly + Dravid + Tendulkar must be greater than their entire team combined), with pitches tailor-made for their spinners and batsmen (ie more docile than anemic choirgirls) they should really be ashamed if they can't win. Then again, said choirgirls can probably perform better than this Indian team, so I won't be holding my breath.
England, arguably, have more spine: at least they apologise.
England, arguably, have more spine: at least they apologise.
Mr Mxyzptlk
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Say what now?
Chris Gayle - 158 caps
Brian Lara - 289
Shivanarine Chanderpaul - 207
Marlon Samuels - 82
Dwayne Smith - 58
Dwayne Bravo - 59
Ian Bradshaw - 59
When the majority of the side has more than 50 ODI caps, that's not vastly inexperienced.
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Wow, massive massive overreaction.
Who cares what the results of this series is? What's more important is that India find the right team, the right formula and get their key players match fit and into form.
Uthappa's 70 from 40 balls or whatever was more important to me than the win, and whilst winning should have occured from the position India were in, I would take the loss and Uthappa's innings than a win with the tried and test Dravid scoring a ton and WI collapsing due to stupid cricket from them. Same will go for the next match, whilst I obviously want India to win, if Yuvraj can get some runs it'd be great (and more important), and players like Raina failing isn't bad. We'll be able to 'weed out' the players who aren't good enough just yet to make the WC 15 (Raina and possible Gambhir IMO, though I like them both) and know which players will be most valuable when the WC comes around.
Same here TBH. I was really happy to see him perform! But, ill be ven more angry if sehwag comes and takes his place!
exactly....i think that some people forget the fact that WI used to be an inexperienced side but are not anymore!
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
WI are a definite outsider in World Cup and will surprise a few.Wouldn't be surprised if they got to the final.Tipping Bangladesh to beat the Indians as they are a fast improving one day side.India way overated IMO
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
I'd like your opinion on who exactly are these people that are 'overrating' India.
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
Maybe not overating but I think the media make them to be team with great batting but they aren't really.A middle order of Dravid,Tendulkar,Ganguly and Laxman a few years ago was good but not any more.
