Well, the "backward" step saved us yesterday. Who knows what might have happened had he not got Gayle?
Oh well, not a bad performance, but some of our bowlers really need to improve. Anyway, we've won and that's the big thing.
Yeah. I disagree with aditya123 in the sense that we are in a generation where its far more forgiving of cricketers who make mistakes and want to correct themselves. In those days, if we dropped a cricketer, it was mighty tough for him to comeback and it eventually got over for him. Who knows, we might have lost out on so many cricketers who could have comeback stronger from the experience. Now, cricketers who are dumped will be optimistic and work doubly hard to make comebacks and would comeback wiser and stronger which is good for the team. Thats how we saw Saurav Ganguly make that sensational comeback and signed off in glory.
I wish we dont use this "backward step" word again because most of our cricketers recently have made strong comebacks.
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Just leave it mate.He wont get any big oppurtunity.He'll just fade away as a immense domestic talent,wasted by the selectors.Im sure he wont get any big chance even in this series.After this series, 3 of our main batsmen will return,which will result in no spot remaining in the batting order.Thats is it.Hes already 29 btw.
Quite possible, sadly! I feel a lot of Badri. But I also got to say that he got a few opportunities and he didnt capitalise. Being in a zone where every innings is important for him, he could have made his opportunities. But again, some others have continued despite major failures and so Badri is unlucky.
saisrini80 added 5 Minutes and 54 Seconds later...
I actually thought RP was bowling quite well. Just he was a bit unlucky with the wides and all. He was going for the right line and length. Nehra was bowling poor, and his selection in the first place was a bit unjustified I thought. He wasn't bowling the right line, and getting 3 wickets was mostly luck.
Yuvraj's batting was just fantastic, a brilliant sight to watch. Karthik did well and got a solid innings. Pathan also batted well, during a period when India looked like they would slip to under 300 even.
Nice to see posts like that from an English member here (the bolded part).
On our bowling, why dont we try guys like Yomahesh, Sangwan, etc? Yomahesh is a very good limited overs bowler who did very well in IPL-I. He has speed, he can bowl the blockhole deliveries very well and he is young. Sangwan should also be tried. I have lost hope in Ishant completely as a limited overs bowler. He learns too slow. RP Singh needs helpful wickets, so does Irfan and Praveen. Zaheer can bowl anywhere but he is often unfit. We need guys like Kamran Khan/Atul Sharma for the speed and a guy like Yomahesh for keeping it very tight and also getting wickets.