03-25-2007, 11:20 PM
This indian team is not going to win anything anytime in the near future. We need a good captain and coach like Ganguly and Wright were between 2001 to 2004. (2005 Ganguly was a horrible captain so that does not count).
Good thing india does not go to super 8. It would be humiliated more. The gap in terms of ability and strategy between india and Australia/SA is really huge. Such clean hitting against such good bowling. Shaun Pollock went for some 83 runs. India made him Man-of-the-series when we played him last. And the SA batsmen were treating Australian bowlers with contempt too. Only the wrist spinner was successful. And what good strategy too. The way SA bowlers were operating in the slog was instuctional. They packed the offsite field with 7 fielders in the offside and only midwicket and long on on the onside and bowler yorkers wide outside off. They were largely successful and gave runs only when Ntini and Kallis strayed onto leg. The current indian bowlers cannot do that, firstly because the coach/captain has not strategically evolved, and secondly because the it needs a lot of discipline to bowl like that. Imagine Agarkar or Zaheer bowling yorkers on the same spot!
We need a good commited coach who can bring discipline to our team. The underarmer was wrong from the very beginning. We can only hope that sometime in the future that can happen.
Good thing india does not go to super 8. It would be humiliated more. The gap in terms of ability and strategy between india and Australia/SA is really huge. Such clean hitting against such good bowling. Shaun Pollock went for some 83 runs. India made him Man-of-the-series when we played him last. And the SA batsmen were treating Australian bowlers with contempt too. Only the wrist spinner was successful. And what good strategy too. The way SA bowlers were operating in the slog was instuctional. They packed the offsite field with 7 fielders in the offside and only midwicket and long on on the onside and bowler yorkers wide outside off. They were largely successful and gave runs only when Ntini and Kallis strayed onto leg. The current indian bowlers cannot do that, firstly because the coach/captain has not strategically evolved, and secondly because the it needs a lot of discipline to bowl like that. Imagine Agarkar or Zaheer bowling yorkers on the same spot!
We need a good commited coach who can bring discipline to our team. The underarmer was wrong from the very beginning. We can only hope that sometime in the future that can happen.