South African Tour of India 2010

[shravi]

That move doesn't seem to be backfiring on them. He's going well: nice and steady.



What's wrong with Yusuf. He's in some good form. 2 centuries in the Duleep Trophy final and 40 ball ton is pretty impressive.

He's useless. He was dropped 5 times in that century in the Duleep Trophy Final. We already have an all rounder in Jadeja. Could have gone for Vijay/Badrinath/Pandey.

 

[SciD]

4 wickets down. Send that Jadeja to block everything.

 

[SaiSrini]

We have gone in with only three specialist bowlers, and all the rest are almost like part timers (Yusuf, Jadeja, Raina, Sehwag, etc). Risky move! If they pick Ashwin, why not blood him? If the spin cupboard is bare, you got to make use of whatever little you have.

Karthik played a good innings but fails to kick on again. Dhoni GONE NOW!!! India in major trouble here.

SaiSrini added 0 Minutes and 59 Seconds later...

He's useless. He was dropped 5 times in that century in the Duleep Trophy Final. We already have an all rounder in Jadeja. Could have gone for Vijay/Badrinath/Pandey.

We should have gone in with one more bowler (Ashwin/Mishra). We are weak on specialist bowlers in this match.

 

[SciD]

Is India so short of batsman that Karthik is playing

 

[CaptainOZ]

Just started watching it. That's so unfortunate about Sehwag's dismissal. I hope India get some luck too when they bowl.

 

[SciD]

Short pitch stuff troubling these batsman again. :doh

 

[SaiSrini]

Raina has batted quite well so far. And Kohli is giving Raina decent company. If they can build a partnership here and stay till the final stages, India will be highly benefitted. We need a really good total because we have to bowl when the dew is on and our ODI fielding is highly pathetic (we dont have bowlers that we got to play the likes of Nehra).

 

[SciD]

I have feeling about Useless getting 50 in 30 balls.

 

[SaiSrini]

I have feeling about Useless getting 50 in 30 balls.

That would be awesome for the team. If he can achieve that, I have no problem with him.

The stadium (Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur) is really very good looking. Once the lights come on, I guess it will really look great.

 

[Leggie]

We should try and get singles and the odd boundary up until the 44th-ish over. Then we should try and go for the big shots because we've got Yusuf, anyone know if we've still got the batting powerplay? (Just woke up )

 

[CaptainOZ]

These two going along nicely. I hope they can get the score to 230 at least, before another wicket falls.

 

[Leggie]

Nice shot by Raina, picked it up very nicely. Just found out we've still got the batting powerplay left, 300 shouldn't be impossible.

 

[jkartik]

what a six by raina!!! amazing.

 

[CaptainOZ]

what a six by raina!!! amazing.

Is that you in your avatar?

 

[SaiSrini]

Batting powerplay is still available to us. Most likely it will be taken after the 40th over (or once Yusuf comes in).

Raina's six in that over was just STUNNING! Both Kohli and Raina are fighting for their spots in the ODI team and the more they turn in good performances, the harder it will become for Yuvraj Singh to stay in the team as a passenger.