Dravid need to change his thinking, I am sure India cannot be in Top4 in world cup.
Giving Karthick's fall a turning point - is a uselless comment. How can you count Karthik as a Finisher. He is not a finisher. Dhoni or Sehwag could be a finisher. They must have sent Karthick in place of sehwag and sehwag in place of karthick.
If sehwag has to fit in Middle Order than its only be in Lower Middle Order, He is a hitter not a strike rotator. Use Strike rotator on no.5 and hitter on 6 & 7. If it would be, India must have win that match.
No more experimenting with sewagh.He should be tried only for Ranji and duleep trophy matches hence forth.It,s better bring Kaif and VVS laxman back.This team can do better and win matches by not including sewahg.Chairman Vengsarkar are you listening.Stick to your first impulse...which keeps telling you to drop sewagh hence forth.You need not consider his name for thw world cup.Still if you do , then even GOD cannot save the Indian Team reaching even the semi finals.
RE:Time to Clean the Mess again
by Nishith Raj on Feb 12, 2007 01:33 AM Permalink
KAIF back???????????
The most brillient suggestion one can give at this moment... He is an expert of such situation and experienced, he has made India lose the Won matches what happened today.
He is the worst finisher of the game. Except for the Natwest Trophy, he hasnt been even average. It was a brillient decision of the selectors to kick his ass.
RE:Time to Clean the Mess again
by JM on Feb 11, 2007 11:25 PM Permalink
Sehwag's stupid shot on the last ball when they already had 8 runs in that over is inexcusible. Maybe Kaif should come back but we certainly dont want one more fossil in Laxman to join Ganguly and Kumble in fielding.
RE:Time to Clean the Mess again
by Gmail Rediffmail on Feb 11, 2007 11:26 PM Permalink
There is no question to dream Kaif or Sehwag in world cup. How can you send a player in world cup who has not played any one day match in last 2 months.
Cleaning time will be there, right after the world cup. You will see Dinesh Karthick, Sehwag out of Team India after the world cup.
RE:Time to Clean the Mess again
by K Chandru on Feb 11, 2007 11:26 PM Permalink
Kaif back? funny! What great thing he has done during the period of exile? None expects India to win the world cup. Let's stick to youngsters. and, dispense with tried and wrotten talent(talent?!?) like Kaif, Pathan and Sehwag. Their days are over already. They deserve to be dumped and forgotten forever!
RE:RE:Time to Clean the Mess again
by Gmail Rediffmail on Feb 11, 2007 11:31 PM Permalink
Chandru, I remember you said that for Gangly also around a year ago. You cant dump your heroes so easily. They will keep knocking on your ears and come back.
RE:IS IT WORTH SPENDING TIME ON WRITING ANYTHING !!!!!!!1
by Gmail Rediffmail on Feb 11, 2007 11:29 PM Permalink
dont worry dear another last week of Feb is a tight scheduled shooting days for our Team India Playeres, you will start seeing those ads by 2nd week of March.
Do you know what George Bernard Shaw told about cricket? If you disagree with him watch the next match. If the players failed to entertain you don't blame them. If we have an attitude of enjoying the nuances of the game we will not be disappointed. Players come and go. The game will be there for long.
RE:Remember George Bernard Shaw
by Nikhil P on Feb 11, 2007 11:20 PM Permalink
If you generate a lot of money from fans isn't it your responsibility to have winninh players to entertain all those people. This team can't reach quarte final.
please drop sehwag for following reason. whenever he is out of the team sachin does brilliantly like his old self. when sehwag was down with flu and did not play, sachin scored his record-breaking 35th hundred. when sehwag was rested during one day series against WI, sachin won man of the series after a long time.
We want the old sachin back. cricketers like sehwag are too little as compromise for legend sachin
Its a shame on all of us Indian that we see games that have been fixed and neglect all other sports in India.Isnt there anything more important than cricket in India?why so much coverage is given to it is due to sole reason of betting and fixing.When millions of people are deprived of basic neccessities and there are far more better issues to be addressed, why the Indian media is after cricket? And how comw the recent match fixing scandal nothing has come out?has money exchange hands ( i mean between media and people behind fixing? ).How come no head has been rolled in the present scandal?how come one of BCCI member came on T.v stations minutes after the news of the scandal and said no Indian player is involved?how can he say without proper investigation.As BCCI continues to loot millions od people of thier hard earned money its no surprise matches are being fixed.Why is BCCI so eager o suppress the issue?When Jagmohan Dalmiya can be corrupt so can be others.Its all a staged show to loot millions from Indians.
RE:cricket is full of match fixers
by Kaushik Basu on Feb 12, 2007 03:14 AM Permalink
Are you also not following the same? Or how could you find time and info to write such article?
It is becoming a tradition of the Indian team to choke under the condition when they were expected to excel. I don%u2019t think neither Greg nor his puppets could ever bring that 'killing instinct' in the team. Although when they were given the responsibilities it was anticipated that they would make Indian team better. It never happened. They degraded the morale of the team parts by parts. They put one excuse for their failure and brought another one to support the previous one. The unfortunate dependability on the 'WHITE SKIN' coupled with the treacherous behavior of some desis forced India to remain oppressed in the colonial era for more than 200 years. The trend has not been grounded yet. We forget that we have ex players like Amarnath, Kapil, Gavaskar or Angshuman who could manifest better coaching tactics than the current one. By depending on them you can nationalize your team (as they are all Indians) and you can save foreign reserve. Folks, time is running out fast.
