India fried at Rose bowl !!
What a beating it was ? The bowlers got fried, the fielding was ragged and batting, which was supposed to toy with the English bowling failed miserably - all of it combined to give a nasty drubbing at the 1st of the 7 ODIs at Roes bowl, Southampton. I did not watch all the overs in the match but from what little I saw, it was sufficient to conclude that this series will go the world cup way for India.
Signs of trouble brewing were evident even in the match against England Lions, when Luke Wright went on a pace, which looked like that he will get a 200 before the 50 over mark. The 1st ODI, revealed that the white ball is not going to swing and Indian batsmen don't have the luxury of the lethargic boundaries they have been hitting in tests (with aggressive field placing).
Sachin again proved that he is only a paper tiger and as far as Ganguly's run out - it looked school boyish. Did anyone notice that this the 53rd time, he is getting run out involvement in a ODI ? What a joke that was since he got run out off throw from Monty !!..what followed was even more pathetic. Gambhir (what is the meaning of all the useless runs he made in side games) was loose outside the off and did not appear fluent and the rest (including Yuvi) came and went.
I think that things will be very very tough for India, unless there is some drastic change.
Signs of trouble brewing were evident even in the match against England Lions, when Luke Wright went on a pace, which looked like that he will get a 200 before the 50 over mark. The 1st ODI, revealed that the white ball is not going to swing and Indian batsmen don't have the luxury of the lethargic boundaries they have been hitting in tests (with aggressive field placing).
Sachin again proved that he is only a paper tiger and as far as Ganguly's run out - it looked school boyish. Did anyone notice that this the 53rd time, he is getting run out involvement in a ODI ? What a joke that was since he got run out off throw from Monty !!..what followed was even more pathetic. Gambhir (what is the meaning of all the useless runs he made in side games) was loose outside the off and did not appear fluent and the rest (including Yuvi) came and went.
I think that things will be very very tough for India, unless there is some drastic change.
posted by Crick_Love at 4:34 AM
2 Comments:
I happened to read this blog before after the 4th one dayer... Your prediction so far is spot on...
Our batting failing miserably (with a few sparks here and there but that alone does not win matches),
our bowling is really a charity exercise with each bowler trying their best to outdo their contribution (to the opposition instead of their team) than the others,
and finally our fielding, oh man i think describing it as pedestrain would be saying too much about it.
All in all, i think after the high of the test win, we've already sunk to a new low... Wonder when will we bottom out, everytime we do one thinks this is it, and the team miraculously and regularly finds a way to beat its previous low.
Maybe ICL may be exciting... at least the competition will be among equals here... though at a level way below the standards i am used to.
- A very "heart-broken" feeling follower of Indian cricket.
vmh - thx for the comment. I will update the blog with the latest..
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