aditya123
National Board President
- Joined
- Sep 25, 2003
- Location
- Mumbai
- Online Cricket Games Owned
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The Aussie attack are`nt as invincible as they have been made to look by the Indians. The Indian T20 lineup bats with their brains left in their kitbags. None of them even showed the will to fight it out for a couple of overs. Johnson hardly looked menacing and even Nannes got hit in his second spell. It only required a couple of batsmen to stay there till Nannes and Tait finished with their first spell. Johnson, Watson and Smith would hardly have been unscorable had they bowled to the top order but the foolish top order did not even have the sense to wait for the weaker bowlers to bowl and the game was done and dusted by then.
I don`t think the short delivery had anything to do with the defeat yesterday. We played pathetic cricket. Our T20 batting lineup is a bunch of jokers. They feel that they can go out and explode from the word go. Yusuf Pathan is hardly international class and he should`nt be anywhere near that national side in any format. Ravindra Jadeja might have had a bad day but he is someone who can be groomed for the more important formats unlike Yusuf who clearly is a toothless batsman against quality bowling. Rohit Sharma has always been a better prospect (talent-wise) than Raina. He clearly has more time when he is facing quality pace unlike Raina whose game basically revolves around powering the ball over midwicket which is why he will not be regularly successful on the big stage on pitches with bounce. To Raina`s credit, he did make use of his chances in the past season unlike Rohit. Rohit, if he sorts his temperament out, will be the more successful batsman in Aussie/SA/English conditions. Murali Vijay is also someone who will eventually make the cut as a test batsman. However, I feel that the hundred he scored in the IPL will do more harm than good to him being groomed as a test cricket prospect. We should`nt spoil players like Vijay who look compact players technically by forcing them to play T20 cricket. We should have picked Uthappa instead. Vijay is too valuable a batsman to be spoilt to T20 cricket. The same goes with budding pacemen. I can say without hesitation that the IPL ruined Ishant Sharma. Sharma`s bowling before and after IPL-1 has been chalk and cheese. For a batsman, it is better to start of being a good test match batsman first and then adjust to T20s which certainly would make you a more successful batsman even in T20s.
I don`t care about what we do in this tournament. I`m just against short sighted thinking on part of the selectors and the lack of will on the part of our batsman to learn from past mistakes. I don`t think these guys cannot play short stuff, they just cannot play attacking strokes against the short pitched bowling which is why I cannot understand why so many of them are actually attempting half hearted attempts at the hook/pull or slogging cross batted against the short stuff when the bowler can only bowl one of those in one over.
