Abject Surrender !

This is a tale of captains, who both gambled but one came out with flying colors thanks to the state of the wicket and the recklessness of the opposition. With Pieterson and Collingwood scoring at a canter, Dravid gambled not to take the 2^nd powerplay but when he eventually took it, instead of ending up with a huge acceleration, English wickets tumbled one after another. Yuvaraj Singh, bowling his innocuous left armers picked 2 wickets and even the hapless Sehwag bagged 2. In the end, 237 is not the kind of score that is going to test the rampaging Indian side, even with several out of form batsmen. England should have atleast gone upto 300, considering the blistering knock of Pierterson but Flintoff and the rest did not have the gumption to go for it, in the hot sink of a climate at Kochi.

Sehwag failed again and was promptly rewarded with captaincy for the next 2 ODIs. I am yet to see a significant innings from him, right from the SL home series. I am not sure whether he should be persisted with and that too as captain. But again, the favors dished out some players has gone to such an extent that anything is possible and I do not rule out all oddities. Kaif’s horrendous run of failures continued, but the rest are in good knick and ensured that the 4-0 brown wash was complete without much ado.