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WTF is wrong with you man. He wasn't even talking about that. You make the rest of us look bad.

I am what i am. i don't need others permission or advice how to post, not all think at the same view point. you have one i have another. maybe i got it wrong, but i post what i mean. if my post is not appropriate a team is appointed to hit the delete button with infraction and i wonder it's not you to do that .
 
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We have deserved everything we got in this tournament--which is nothing. Our batsmen think they are too good for the basics of cricket, thinking they can slog across the line and clear the boundaries at will. We can't play bounce. We can't play spin. We don't support players who play well and we keep persisting with those who look like crap. The number of pull shots I had to watch against the angle of the bounce, the number of slog sweeps against the turn on this spinning pitch; really, these youngsters need to get their head back on earth.

Dhoni needs to take criticism as captain. He has failed in all the matches that mattered. Against Windies he persisted with a lacklustre Ishant Sharma instead of an effective Irfan Pathan, leaking too many runs in the end. Against England, he made a mind-boggling line-up selection, didn't utilize the full quota of his best pace bowler and sent a rookie in to set up a do-or-die run chase. In the South Africa game, he refused to admit that he had made poor choices in the matter of team selection and went in with 3 pace bowlers on a spinning pitch, bowling only 6 overs between them. He stuck with the bloke who ruined our run chase for solidarity but sent him in to bat after Harbhajan Singh. And at the press conference he'll probably blame the batsmen for the loss, again. Really, dude, it is possible for you to make mistakes. No one wants you to be perfect. To err is human. To pretend you're perfect clearly suggests that you're not.

Take a look at these averages for the pacers in our squad.

Praveen Kumar
ODI: 30.13
T20I: 15.00 (1 game)
T20: 28.13

Zaheer Khan
ODI: 29.18
T20I: 19.60
T20: 26.25

Irfan Pathan
ODI: 29.91
T20I: 24.68
T20: 22.09

Ishant Sharma
ODI: 30.32
T20I: 55.25
T20: 39.04

RP Singh
ODI: 32.25
T20I: 14.57
T20: 21.92

Who featured in all the games? Ishant Sharma. Who featured in the fewest games? RP Singh and Irfan Pathan. Really... and it's not like Ishant Sharma was setting the stage on fire, warranting his selection.

I honestly can't wait to watch some Test cricket now, with Sehwag hopefully back and Tendulkar and Laxman playing some quality cricket instead of our batting failing to perform according to the situation.
 
All I was saying is that the Indian woman cricket team is doing well.
I wasn't insult anyone.:confused:
well India can hope they do well in 2 years time for the World Cup
 
India got what it deserved.... Waiting for the likes of Sachin to come back and display quality batting.
 
What you mean be happy by that? :rolleyes: India has lost it's place in the T20 tournament due to some of it's own bad decision, not that the opponent was a match winning side. the first ever bowl out, the "Misbah Shot" remember something?


He was just telling that India womens team got place in semis, so that is a cherish moment. Indian cricket doesn't only mean, men's domination. Women also plays it and it should get same respect.
 
I wish the Indian women make it to the final. But even if they win the cup, no one will celebrate it as big in India. Its all about the men in India. We are very much a "male chauvinist" society. Women are mere glamour dolls in India and even in movies, they are majorly used for romance, dancing around trees with the guy, etc.
 
I wish the Indian women make it to the final. But even if they win the cup, no one will celebrate it as big in India. Its all about the men in India. We are very much a "male chauvinist" society. Women are mere glamour dolls in India and even in movies, they are majorly used for romance, dancing around trees with the guy, etc.


You missed out a big thing, Sai :p
 
You missed out a big thing, Sai :p

Yeh. My big thing :cool:.

Yeh, pretty much agree with everything sohum had to say really. We needed this though. I think India as a team has been getting a little complacent with their success.
 
I find it incredible that Pragyan Ojha, India's leading wicket taker at the time, and indeed now at the end of their tournament, was dropped.

Everyone can see this tournament is favouring spinners. When you have one that has taken 7 wickets in 3 matches, you do not drop him.

The back five (assuming the first six are the players we expect) should have been Pathan/Jadeja, Zaheer, Harbhajan, RP Singh, Ojha. In hindsight (a wonderful thing) I would have gone with Jadeja due to the success he had with the ball - Pathan took one wicket in three matches.
 

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