Indian tour of South Africa, December-January 2010/11

[Params7]

Munaf bowled superbly today. Bowled really tight and was backed up by our catchers well. WIN BY 1 RUN!!!! YES!!!! Superb win! Hope we can improve our batting performance in the upcoming games.

Ashish Nehra is turning out to be hopeless. If Munaf continues this performance, then our pace attack will be Zaheer, Munaf and Praveen for the World Cup.

I wouldn't be so quick to judge but yeah Nehra needs to do something to get his form back.

 

[Adarsh]

I just want to say.....WOOOOOOO !!

SA Kit needs to have chokers written at the back of their t-shirts !

 

[ZoraxDoom]

India didn't win that, South Africa lost it.

What were Parnell and Morkel thinking? A handful of runs to win in way more deliveries than anyone should need, and they both promptly not only play at short and wide balls, but hit them in the air, with packed offside fields. FFS leave the ball alone and take the singles when they come. How hard is that? Steyn guilty of panicked running too, Miller of a poor shot.

Only way to explain that is Choking or Match-Fixing tbh. Pathetic performance.

 

[Papa_Smurf]

Imagine if this game was the WC Final They would never let the choker tag down

 

[Sobi]

Forget whatever i wrote in my last post. What a match!!!!! way to go India. We keep the number 2 spot in the rankings.

 

[tarun87]

Only way to explain that is Choking or Match-Fixing tbh

this called match fixing each and every match are fixed these days

 

[AngryPixel]

To do that they gotta reach the final first... They gonna choke way before that

 

[Gurjot95]

Imagine if this game was the WC Final

Only if SA managed to reach final by not choking in semis

 

[Garson007]

Jesus. We are such chokers.

 

[mohit_dude10]

Simply WOW! This Indian team doesn't give up till its over, never seen such intent from any Indian team in past.

SA just showed again that they are still good at choking

 

[AngryPixel]

Simply WOW! This Indian team doesn't give up till its over, never seen such intent from any Indian team in past.

SA just showed again that they are still good at choking

Naah.. They gave up after 30 odd overs. It was choker gene in saffers that won India the match.

Seriously you expect only Saffers to choke from such a situation and more often than not, they do.

 

[mohit_dude10]

Naah.. They gave up after 30 odd overs. It was choker gene in saffers that won India the match.

Seriously you expect only Saffers to choke from such a situation and more often than not, they do.

Yes i agree SA gave it away, but then MS went with attacking field and also often in these situation Indian fielders give away mis-fields and bowlers too many extras, but today it never seemed for a moment that they had given up.

 

[AngryPixel]

Although India won this match, incompetence shown by Indian Batsmen shouldn't be ignored.

Vijay had far too many chances. Kohli should be moved up the order as he can handle the movement. Yusuf should be brought in in place of Vijay and Tendulkar should find his ODI mindset ASAP. Coz he's still playing in test mode. This is why he needs to play more ODI's. Those risky shots have gone into hiding and would take some time to come back. Lets hope he can find them before next match

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Yes i agree it was more SA giving it away, but then MS went with attacking field and also often in these situation Indian fielders give away mis-fields and bowlers too many extras, but today it never seemed for a moment that they had given up.

I would say it was an statistical aberration that Indians bowled well + Caught well + Fielded well. You know what are the odds of this??

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Am i the only one who remember Proteas losing another match by just one run in last ODI series against India. I guess it was match before Sachin's 200. And last wicket was runout. Anyone remember who was the culprit then??

 

[Garson007]

I would say it was an statistical aberration that Indians bowled well + Caught well + Fielded well. You know what are the odds of this??

This is where coaching and training comes in, imho. Brilliant display of mental fortitude.

 

[SaiSrini]

Sachin seems to be very rusty after not having played ODI's for almost a year. Hope he plays all the remaining ODI's and regroups his ODI form pretty soon. We need that double centurion Sachin back when we start our World Cup campaign.

Botha was such a lucky wicket. How did the umpire not spot that the ball hadnt hit the pad AT ALL? And Botha went off without showing almost any emotion (which was good for him).