Zimbabwe Triangular Series 2010

Got to love how stupid some Indian fans can be. How the hell can Jadeja be judged when he is still very young and is one of the best performing players on this tour? Would be like England fans going after someone like Steve Finn :sarcasm (except Finn is way better ;))
 
Jadeja should not be near team India. We need 4 genuine bowlers with 6 batsman and a keeper. 2 will be fast bowlers and 2 will be spinners. One will be Harby for sure and other one should be Ojha.

Ojha is much better bowler than Jadeja who only has darts. Harbhajan is enough for playing darts. If he plays he will be batting below Harbhajan and you do not need Jadeja in last 5 overs of either run chase or first innings.

He is hopeless as batsman and making runs against Zims is surely making him Tendulkar. :sarcasm

Oh, yes, of course. I totally said he's Tendulkar. :sarcasm If you're going to speak absolute nonsense, don't bother arguing. Not to mention, Jadeja bats at 7, and Tendulkar opens.

And, Jadeja can't hit the big shots? 3 fours and 2 sixes yesterday, or something like that, when most of our batsman couldn't even get singles against spinners that were choking them. One six was 92m and the other about 87m, which would've been sixes on any ground. When he's set, he can hit the ball. He's young, and he's averaging over 40 in ODIs batting at number 6/7, and he's bowling with an economy rate of 4.8 in ODIs, while picking up wickets regularly. It could've been a better knock had he got more strike at the end there, but that couldn't he helped. And if it wasn't for Jadeja, India wouldn't have made even a respectable total. Of course, he's not the best finisher in the world, but he's like 20, and he's only going to mature into a better cricketer. He has a strike rate of 81, which is on the lower side, surely. But, if that's an argument, Rohit Sharma has a strike rate of 75 through 40 matches! And an average of 31! Yet, people seem to jump on Jadeja's case. And, yes, he's making runs against Zimbabwe, but he's played against bigger nations too - unlike Rohit, who has just put 2 100s against Zimbabwe to majorly boost his average.

There are more people who should have question marks over their places in the team than Jadeja.
 
Play Naman and Ashwin in the next game... that's all India can do if they want to reach the finals !
 
The openers were treating the match like a Test Match.

I'd now like to see Naman Ojha open the batting as he is pretty attacking. Also, I dont mind saying that the bench strength is suited only to the domestic format. They tend to lose their aggression while playing against the International teams.

I'd also like to point out that Raina's captaincy is nowhere near the world standards. For the future, I seriously would not like to see him captain an Indian side again. It also beats me as to why he was chosen to lead over the heads of others who have led India at some level or the other.
i.e
Virat Kohli led India U-19 in Malaysia 2008
Dinesh Kartik has been a captain/vice captian for the U-19 on many a occassion.

Raina has been neither.

The only reason Raina was made captain is that, he is the most senior of all the players in the side and he is the guy who has a permanent spot in the Indian ODI XI (even while the seniors are playing). Virat Kohli has still not cemented his spot, and it would have been unfair on Raina if Kohli was made captain (we do work on seniority issues). And also, Dinesh Karthik can never be made captain. He is inconsistent of the highest order. It is high time he is packed off and we start investing on Naman Ojha, Wriddhiman Saha and others.
 
yesterday India lost because of openers Both Chennai Players Playing Like A Test Match.They Not Took Any calculated Risk .this both player should not get any chances for indian team From Here onverse :facepalm
The openers were treating the match like a Test Match.

How could the openers LOSE the match? Sure it wasn't a fast opening stand, but at least they had a partnership. And even so, by the time the first wicket fell they was still HEAPS of time left in the match for the apparently blameless 9 other players of the team to make up for those terrible openers...

I didn't like how Raina basically threw them under the bus:
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Sports | Openers let us down: Raina
"The openers let us down" he says. No Suresh, you and the whole XI let India down, don't blame the openers...
 
How could the openers LOSE the match? Sure it wasn't a fast opening stand, but at least they had a partnership. And even so, by the time the first wicket fell they was still HEAPS of time left in the match for the apparently blameless 9 other players of the team to make up for those terrible openers...

The openers definitely let us down. How else do you explain the Zimbabwean openers to get off to a rollicking start ?
Their slow start forced the other batsmen to go for attacking shots which they would not have done otherwise.

icyman added 6 Minutes and 18 Seconds later...

Hope that India will be back in form in Asia Cup.

They will be required to field their ruddy best team, else we ll have Bangladesh going to the finals.

Well if they go in with their best team they would probabl win

I still doubt it. India has had a knack for allowing weaker teams to get on top.
Ina tri series in 1998, we did lose to Kenya once.
In the 2003 WC ,we almost allowed Holland a victory.
In the 2007, WC, Bangaldesh got the better of us.

Lol what crap. Raina is shite captain.

Raina is an i-d-i-o-t.

Stupid decisions.

Are these not the same Indian players that was so majestic in the IPL?? And persons wonder why there are thoughts that the IPL was fixed!!!! I do hope Zim goes on to win, full strength team or not such wins can help boost Zimbabwe!

We call them Flat Track Bullies :)
 
^ They're not flat track bullies. The Zim game was a flat track and India got bullied. They do well in the IPL because there's only one or two bowlers to watch out for in each team. The rest are domestic bowlers, so you can go after them. They're just not fit for the international level.
 
I understand they are experimenting with young players but I'm really not sure what this perera bloke offers to sri lanka. Mathews looked leagues better when he came into the side.
 
Lol Naman Ohja did so much better than Vijay eh?

Brook added 19 Minutes and 2 Seconds later...

And ahahahaha now Yusuf's going to be in the team for longer.
 
Really clever use of Pathan. They sent him in to have a slog during the bowling powerplay and then when they got away with that, they took the batting powerplay. It wasn't classy, in fact, it was downright streaky, but he managed to make damaging runs. Otherwise, India have struggled, like every team batting first has done so far.
 
Lol Naman Ohja did so much better than Vijay eh?

Vijay has had his chances. I would like to see whether Naman Ojha gets as many chances as Vijay got.

icyman added 1 Minutes and 43 Seconds later...

^ They're not flat track bullies

I disagree with this. They are flat track bullies who cannot play the rising delivery. What is the point of having a NCA at Bangalore in that case ? Send the entire them there.
 
Am I only one who wants India to lost? This will actually help in India many ways. It will remove overconfidence from selectors, next time they will think before sending B team and making young player as captain and many new players will gain some experience playing their first match outside subcontinent.
 
Am I only one who wants India to lost? This will actually help in India many ways. It will remove overconfidence from selectors, next time they will think before sending B team and making young player as captain and many new players will gain some experience playing their first match outside subcontinent.

No, I support India, hence I want them to win, regardless of the team they send.

It was a mistake sending so many new players, but had India won, everyone would be praising these guys. The toss seems to make a huge difference here too. When India won the toss, they won the match, but they've lost the toss on the other 3 occasions. Not an excuse, just shows how the pitch eases out in the afternoon.

@ Brook - Naman Ojha has only got one chance, while Vijay has had a couple. If Naman gets the same amount of chances, maybe he'd do better than Vijay. Taking a shot at people who wanted Naman in the team over his performance in one match was quite unnecessary.
 
Well played SL! Dinesh Chandimal was hugely impressive today, wonder who's place will he take for the Asia Cup.
 
WOW another Mendis? 2-3 years ago that would have been scary.

What if there was 2 Mendis and the both bowled Carrom ball. Game over in 2 overs.
 

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