Thursday, November 10, 2005

Happy to be wrong

I was happy to be wrong about the Rajkot ODI. Many of my worries did not materialize and India seems to have pulled off a disciplined bowling effort and more important, a fabulous fielding effort. Is it not the old saying in criket that you can not trust how you are going to bowl, predict how the batting will go but fielding - that should be one constant element with no surprises. Well, Indian fielding has been above par and the 2 run outs took the stuffing out of SL batting.
A couple soft spots - Kaif is back but he continues to play in his normal mode of 55 strike rate. Agreed, in this match he did not have done much with the low score to chase but he had a chance to knock of a decent 50 but he became too timid. Viru continues to struggle and I am sure that he is just plain lucky. If this would have been a close series, he would have lost his place by now - for all you know to Gambhir or even Sourav.
Now, let us turn to SA series. I feel that India should opt for spinning wickets and go ahead with the selection of Kumble.