Embarrassing defeat for India
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India have not lost 8 matches in a row,overseas,since 1959 . Jus goes to show the nadir India have hit. Hope they redeem themselves in ODI series.
Congratulations to Australia on a fantastic series win.
Players in danger of being booted out :
Laxman,Sehawag,Gambhir and , yes, I say this with a bit of reluctance , Dhoni .
Laxman's batting looks ragged and clueless.
Lack of opening partnership has been the main reason for India's failure. But nobody seems to want to talk about that. Instead the three senior guys are being targeted .
Sehwag
Now there is a talk of him getting in the middle order and shuffling out Laxman.What BS.
He should be dropped along with Laxman . Bring in Rahane/Pujara/Sharma/Badrinath.
Ishant Sharma has played 40 odd tests but he continues to bowl too short or too full . 4 years is a very very long time and if you do not understand the mistakes you are making then either somethng is wrong with the bowler or with the support staff . Because he bowls too short,even if the ball does something his chances of getting a nick or hitting the stumps are drastically reduced. And Ishant Sharma calls this Luck. Ridiculous .
Dravid is really struggling . I am still learning to play good cricket but from what I have seen and listened to and understood there seems to be technical problem . As sourav has said his bat seems to be coming from am arc, wider than usual, also it seems to be bit away from the body , his front foot is going a bit more parallel to the crease and he is bending a bit more . IMHO , that front foot of his making his bat go a bit wider and is causing the problem . If he becomes a bit more open ,i.e. if his front foot toe is pointing a bit more mid-offish and a bit less extra-coverish it might help. Of course , I could be wrong, after all I am just a rookie
Sachin
He does not read newspapers/magazines. Does he read views on internet. I do not think so . Else he would have understood his problem by now . Duncan fletcher is not a reliable source to get feedback from . The way he clamps at critical phases of play and makes ordinary bowlers look great is amazing . When Lyon scalped Sachin,Ravi Shastri screamed angrily,"Lyon was allowed to bowl" . Very true . I guess Sachin thinks he can easily control the game(pace the innings as they call it) and he can,but sometime he takes things too far and once you get into a hole you dug for yourself, it is a bit difficult to escape the consequences. He is not playing the ball on the merit.He is either attacking too much or defending too much. He is getting on the field with a predetermined mindset/gameplan/strategy . When you start defending even ordinary balls from ordinary bowlers they start thinking they are bowling great and when that happens to a any bowler it is always dangerous for a batsmen. Quite amusing Sachin does not understand this simple thing .
Rahane
Gambhir
Dravid
Tendulkar
Sharma/Pujara/Badrinath
Kohli
Dhoni(doubtful Saha is also good)
Zak
Ashwin/Ojha
Sharma/Varun
Yadav.
