Surely you jest. His English is so tortured I can't understand anything more than the overall gist of what he's trying to say.
Get some English classes to go... You'll improve!
saisrini80 added 4 Minutes and 45 Seconds later...
^Yeah, right- 1-0, sorry. And yeah, I'll agree it was a bit defensive, and not really what I expected from Dhoni. But what's the use saying all this now? What has happened has happened, we cannot change it.
Of course... The credit for beating NZ in NZ goes to Dhoni and the team (always captains take major credit for victory and the major flak if they lose). Apart from those two and a half days at Napier (where NZ scored 619 and we were bowled out for 305), we have outplayed them throughout the series and we have played very good cricket (the former cricketers who commented on the series concur).
What we need to seriously improve on is our fielding. Fielding is very important even in tests these days and the no. of catches we drop is pathetic. And we got to tell Yuvraj "Ok sir, we dont need you anymore in tests until you radically sort your technique to suit test cricket". Dhoni can survive in tests because he has moulded his game to that of a grafter and has shown patience to stay in there and wait for the bad balls.
saisrini80 added 2 Minutes and 39 Seconds later...
Dhoni should have declared after 500. But then, we won the series! No use giving NZ a chance to draw the series, it would have been ridiculous losing the match trying to win the series 0-2.
Agree.. There was absolutely nothing in the pitch after the first innings of both teams got done with. It got flatter as the game progressed. Ross Taylor scored a century on it and the NZ batsmen could survive in there easily on the pitch. Had we given them 530 with two days to go and they blazed off in the first session of Day 4 with 4-5 runs per over, panic would have set in easily because they have to score 530 in 6 sessions which amounts to less than 90 runs per session (i.e. less than 3 runs per over if the full 30 overs for the session is bowled). Thats seriously a ridiculous decision given the conditon of the pitch.
saisrini80 added 1 Minutes and 29 Seconds later...
No team has ever chased more than 420odd to win a Test match, so why on earth Dhoni thought he'd need 600 is beyond me. It should have been 480-500, with 500 at an absolute maximum. I know India were already 1-0 up so didn't want to give NZ a sniff, but they should have given themselves a better chance to bowl NZ out, and a lead of 480 would have given them easily enough time and runs, this Kiwi side are not good enough to chase 380, let alone 480 in a Test match.
But right now, the trend has been of stunning run chases. Didnt India chase down 387 to beat you guys at Chennai? It was the highest chase in India. After T20 has set in, almost no target is impossible. Take it session by session, and you stand a chance to do the unthinkable.
