Wednesday, February 10, 2010

India's Loss to SA

India lost to SA in first test but why is everyone making so fuss about our bowling. Steyn put up a one of the best spells of his life but had he not done that India surely would have saved match despite their main Batsmen. I do not want to criticize bowlers because they have lot of experience and know what to do. Zaheer bowled well Ishant tried his best but now people have read him and playing him with plan to which he will find solution soon, Bhajji gave his best and I thought Mishra was very unlucky.
If people want better bowling attack just name replacement for these bowlers. Whom to draft in for Bhajji now if he is not performing well? Ojha? It wont help. Srisanth was not fit so who would have played for Ishant? Abhimanyu? or Tyagi?? So we had no option. Same bowlers performed excellently against Aussies in 2008-09. So even though India has weak bowling India can compensate it with good batting. But its India's bad luck with no Dravid and Laxman, Gautam failed in both innings. Sehwag and Sachin cannot win India test match. I think even Yuvi would not helped. I think one of Badri or Vijay should now replace Yuvi.I would prefer Badri because he can be very consistent and is mature to handle the pressure. Vijay is also good option and none of them should be judged by performance in this test because Badri was debuting and Vijay is still very new to international arena. Saha actually exceeded expectation but if everyone had thought that he would fail against SA then a bowler instead of him would have been a good option.Everything went wrong for team India this time and was a very embarrassing defeat on a turning pitch but I think this team will bounce back and has lot of character. Also dhoni needs to play positively which suits him and not useless time consuming bogging which suits Dravid. I still remember he took attack to Aussies in his first test as a captain and scored well against bouncing deliveries. Brett Lee looked ineffective then and looked like once his card of bouncing Dhoni failed he had no other plan for Dhoni. And because of that performance and spirited bowling by Zaheer and Ishant India won the test. It was same attack which lead to Kumble's retirement. India needs to take inspiration from that performance and I believe eden gardens is lucky for India and India has defeated SA on this ground 6 years ago where Bhajji bowled well.
My best wishes with team India.

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