Whats the use? You will continue lamenting on the new bowlers too. SA played badly despite being favorites. Inspite of that, they deserve everything good on this planet. India miss three key players and give pretty much the same runs, and we dont have commitment. The difference in the CB series was SACHIN RAMESH TENDULKAR. And at that time, we had Ishant entering with a bang and bowling at his peak, Zaheer I guess was also there (though not sure), Praveen Kumar was also succeeding surprisingly and everything was running well. Now they have hit a rough patch (understandably as every team goes through it).
What Dhoni said was right.... When the match was cancelled that too without India batting, why should he damn accept defeat and all those nonsense? Stop blabbering man..
Against Pakistan, the things didn't go beyond our hands. And in the first innings, where Aussies were smashing the bowlers, things didn't go beyond our hands. It was all in the control, only thing which we should be happy is, " The Rain ". When we didn't utilize the rusty Pakistan bowling attack to chase 300 runs, the probability of chasing 310-320 runs against Aussies is almost NIL.
After rain, if the match has continued, then I agree that we had good chances because target was around 166 in 20 overs which was very much possible. In whatever angle we look at it, rain actually saved us.
Also the fact is, We are having horrible Champions Trophy 3rd time in a row. Last time in India, the same miserable performance.
That time it was Munaf/Pathan/Agarkar and now it is the entire bowling lineup. :readit
CT 2006 - Our bowling was horrible.
WC2007 - bravo Agarkar! Our bowling remained worst to an extent that we struggled to make Bermuda ALL OUT. :laugh
CT2009 - Our bowling is still horrible
So you mean to say that our bowling will never rise up from ashes? :sarcasm These major tournaments counts to great extent.
He knows only to diss Indian cricket. The guy who loves seeing only at the negative things and keeps annoying people with his negative talk.
The positive talk about the bowlers could only be the things which they do off the ground. I did come across somewhere that all are nice chaps in normal life. Sriram, Ramesh and Balaji are very nice gentlemen which I realized during Sriram's marriage some years back.
I never spoke negative about batsmen.