03-24-2007, 10:08 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Kumar+Mar 24 2007, 11:37 AM-->QUOTE(Kumar @ Mar 24 2007, 11:37 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->LSrini,
Proof of pudding is in eating. Bangladesh beat India. May be it was just a fluke?Â
It was our batting line up that collapsed against non-talented Bangladesh and then against Sri Lanka.
It is clear as daylight whom to blame. Our batsmen let us down yet again, not the coach, not the bowlers. But the primary fault lies on selectors for selecting such a crappy batting lineup. Once again, Sehwag and Tendulkar are useless. Selectors should be investigated for bribery charges.
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True. Now consider the situation at the top of the order:
1) Uthappa going after every ball as though it is the slog overs
2) Sehwag is unable to connect bat to ball and has been unable to get any scoring going
3) Sachin has some technical difficulties in his batting
4) Ganguly does not rotate strike often enough
5) The batting order has Dravid coming in at 5 or 6 when stability is required at the top
6) Dhoni too has been very impatient and has been getting out for ducks
Who should have corrected these problems? BCCI president? Captain of the team? The manager? No, it is the coach's job to identify problems before it becomes too serious and fix them. India had problems before too in the last worldcup but the team overcame them. Murali's Man-of-the-match quote was interesting. siva asked him about his lunging catch to dismiss Ganguly. Murali said the coach (tom Moody or their fielding coach Trevpr, not sure) had told murali that he was too old to field in the infield and murali wanted to prove him wrong. That is getting the best out of your team. Something that the underarmer has failed to do. He was just content with sending stinging emails to BCCI and leaking them to the press. So how will the team trust him?
Proof of pudding is in eating. Bangladesh beat India. May be it was just a fluke?Â
It was our batting line up that collapsed against non-talented Bangladesh and then against Sri Lanka.
It is clear as daylight whom to blame. Our batsmen let us down yet again, not the coach, not the bowlers. But the primary fault lies on selectors for selecting such a crappy batting lineup. Once again, Sehwag and Tendulkar are useless. Selectors should be investigated for bribery charges.
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True. Now consider the situation at the top of the order:
1) Uthappa going after every ball as though it is the slog overs
2) Sehwag is unable to connect bat to ball and has been unable to get any scoring going
3) Sachin has some technical difficulties in his batting
4) Ganguly does not rotate strike often enough
5) The batting order has Dravid coming in at 5 or 6 when stability is required at the top
6) Dhoni too has been very impatient and has been getting out for ducks
Who should have corrected these problems? BCCI president? Captain of the team? The manager? No, it is the coach's job to identify problems before it becomes too serious and fix them. India had problems before too in the last worldcup but the team overcame them. Murali's Man-of-the-match quote was interesting. siva asked him about his lunging catch to dismiss Ganguly. Murali said the coach (tom Moody or their fielding coach Trevpr, not sure) had told murali that he was too old to field in the infield and murali wanted to prove him wrong. That is getting the best out of your team. Something that the underarmer has failed to do. He was just content with sending stinging emails to BCCI and leaking them to the press. So how will the team trust him?