IIRC Sri Lanka only hosted their pool games, so were much of a host as Zimbabwe.
I know, but what happens if he plays on for too long. He's already past his peak, and while he's added too much to be dropped, he may struggle in the future.
I'm not saying it won't happen, I was trying to say that it's FTR, it's unlikely that India will win in 2011.
But he may not. If he wants to avoid the risk, he'd be well-advised to retire fairly soon. If he doesn't care about not being Test-standard for a time in order to ensure he gives all he has to give, he'll play on for as long as anyone will have him.
India have "choked" away from the subcontinent on perhaps 50 times the number of occasions they've "choked" in it.
Yep, we have had our share of chokes more outside Asia than in Asia.India have "choked" away from the subcontinent on perhaps 50 times the number of occasions they've "choked" in it.
Haha yeah. India have only won 2 one-day tournaments of note IIRC, probably more.India have "choked" away from the subcontinent on perhaps 50 times the number of occasions they've "choked" in it.
Eh?. I think you are under-rating how well Collins bowled to him & the overall outstanding bowling performance by the WI in that series. That was supposed to be walk-over series for India TBH & Tendulkar for the 1st time in his career up to that point showed a bit of weakness towards outside off-stump to any bowler.
Compared to how he played a few months earlier in IND, i'd say he was lucky the Gough, Caddick was past their best & he got some pretty flat decks againts a pretty avergae ENG attack that summer (a irritating norm in his visits to England, its really shocking that Tendulkar has never faced a top-quality English attack in his 4 tours here), because having seen him in the WI i wasn't seen the same comanding Tendulkar.
Probably not (although i didn't see it), but having read reports that was probably the most bowler friendly conditions of this 2000s era.
I think around then his tennis-elbow woes started to kick in, but as i said since Bridgetown 02 i could sense Tendy wasn't that same.
England had a top-quality pace attack in the 90s?
I remember reading somewhere that 35 hours is as long as you can go without sleep before you start physically 'deteriorating', for want of a better word. 15 days without any sleep at all is probably scientifically impossible, especially if he was training and playing during that time too.Sheesh, how's it possible to pick-up a cricket-bat having not slept for 15 nights?
If I have 1 night where I don't sleep I'm zombie-esque the following day. 15 in a row is surely medically as good as impossible?
I am pretty sure when he said he hadn't slept for 15 days (if he did say those exact words) he meant I haven't slept well for 15 days. Many of us have suffered from disturbed sleep during times of anxiety. Getting up in the middle of the night, not being able to go back to sleep immediately, getting spells of disturbed sleep are not uncommon. When talking about it to others one could use words like "I have hardly slept for the last couple of weeks" which can mean anything but rarely means I haven's slept at all for 15 days as is being interpreted here.
Are you asking me or telling me?
Any time anyone's expecting a walkover for India outside the subcontinent they're asking a lot. Tendulkar has shown weakness occasionally here and there, normally sorted-out within a few innings'. And the same was true there as well.
Oh, I think he was. His innings at Headingley was a masterpiece. He and Dravid's partnership at Trent Bridge also set the pulse racing.
So? He still scored with his usual regularity.
I think you were mis-sensing. To me it was obvious only from the home New Zealand series in 2003/04.
Well they did sometimes, but fair to say not in either 1990 or 1996. Certainly the former. Neil Williams being a Test-match seamer says it all.
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