What a pathetic sight it was to see Karthik time and again fumble and miss catches/stumping chances. How long will Kumble's love for him will save him? Why isn't Parthiv donning the gloves- He is also a better bat.
RE:Pathetic Karthik
by Madurai SatheeshKumar on Aug 01, 2008 06:31 PM Permalink
Hi How do we know that parthiv will be better given the records so far proved karthik to be better...only if we give them a couple of chances we can decide that one is not doing well.this is 2nd test and so may be if karthik does not do well in 2nd innings as well team might decide for parthiv...
RE:Pathetic Karthik
by Stanley Mathews on Aug 01, 2008 06:40 PM Permalink
Chances? Karthik has had more than his share of chances. His basics in wicket-keeping is entirely faulty. He grabs the ball instead of letting the ball come to him. His keeping for the spinners is even worse- he doesn't stay low enough and tends to get up before time. That's why his misses catches off spinners.
RE:Pathetic Karthik
by ram mohan on Aug 01, 2008 06:47 PM Permalink
After Maharahtrians and Bengalis, tamilians are the worst biased people regarding cricket is concerned.These people always fight for the players from their in any forum and irritate others
RE:Pathetic Karthik
by Calspadeaspade on Aug 01, 2008 07:11 PM Permalink
Ram, Every community in India is clanish. Northies took it for granted that India is theirs and only they should represent everything in India. Other people specially Southies are just for token representation. After so many years some Tamilians are in cricket and if some spectator favours their kind it is only natural. Though I agree fully Kartik ia s failure and so is Uttappa. Yuvi has been a failure for a long time.
RE:RP Singh, Srisanth and Pathan should be there as bowler
by sanjeev kumar on Aug 01, 2008 06:35 PM Permalink
LOL.. but where is Yuvraj? Busy with some bollywood bombshell?
Kumble used first review for LBW for his own bowling. It was turned down.
Team doing badly in test will be further disadvantaged. You have to ask for marginal close calls & it is likely to be turned down. YOu exhaust your 3 unsuccessful reviews fast
On other hand team doing well, will go for review for umpire mistakes & will get it reversed. Since successful reviews are not counted, they will have ample opportuites to correct umpire mistakes.
Team doing well in test have no desparation to ask for close call review & will be benefited .
Margin for victory in test will increase & result possibility will also increase
RE:Review System
by sameer patel on Aug 01, 2008 06:56 PM Permalink
Jayawardene was 2 metres from the crease for the LBW which was called for review...Kumble should have better judgement and not waste the 3 reviews allowed.
Faisal from USA: "Is Dinesh Karthik the best keeper in India after MS Dhoni? He looks worse than a club wicket keeper. Says quite a bit about Indian selection committee. I have not heard a single word of encouragement from Karthik for any of his bowlers or the fielders. This is just bad!"
22.4 Harbhajan Singh to Sangakkara, 1 run, Stumping chance missed by Karthik. Sangakkara was beaten in the flight, it dipped and went through the bat and pad gap and Karthik grabbed at it and didn't collect it. Harbhajan saw Sangkkara come down and whipped it short of length
RE:Great Kumble's friend Great Karthik !!!!!!
by Anurag Rathore on Aug 01, 2008 05:28 PM Permalink
58.2 Harbhajan Singh to HAPW Jayawardene, 4 byes, it lands around leg stump, spins down and Karthik fails to get across in time. He is late in moving
I appreciate the nerve of Veeru. The media,and Vengsarkar was after his head for a few failures. But the great Veeru is unconcerned and played in his true style and see Murali and Mendis looked ordinary against him and great against other Incdian batsmen.
Some time back public were baying for Sehwags head!!! now for Sachin ,Sourav & Dravid!!! what about Dhonis head !???????
Sehwag is match winner always !!!!!! Why Dhoni played dirty with him!!!
Only some time back people were criticising Sehwag for poor form!!!!!He has been a mtch winner for India!!!Just like other players like Yuvraj,Pathan etc Dada as Captain supported Sehwag even after his loss of form inbetween ...eventually he proved match winner unlike many others who always played for their personal record..
Sehwag was being criticised for string of poor scores only some time back...now he is back with bang!!!! Dhoni played dirty game with Sehwag .. although Sehwag is a match winner and always with good start and great strike rate makes it easy for India to win the matches,...where as Dhoni s strike rate has gone as he has become Captain with hardly any match winning performance!!!! For me Dhoni is too much hype and would soon become an avg player..
TO me Sehwag always rocks!!! He desrves to be Captain in test aw well as ODI!!!
All team have mix of Srs & Juniors like Pakistan has Yonus khan ( 39 yrs),Ysuf Khan,.. Jaisurya,Murli,Jaiwardene are as old a Sachin,sourav,Dravid .... Dhoni is simply trying to fish in the troubled water by making it a controversy.. Aus ODI tri series was won because of Sachin..Dhonis success is mainly due to others..his performance is hardly match winning in last one years
RE:Some time back public were baying for Sehwags head!!! now for Sachin ,Sourav & Dravid!!! what about Dhonis head !???????
by satheesh kanakasabapathy on Aug 01, 2008 01:48 PM Permalink
This guy doesn't know what is cricket! Talking about strike rates in Tests!
RE:Some time back public were baying for Sehwags head!!! now for Sachin ,Sourav & Dravid!!! what about Dhonis head !???????
by Anurag Rathore on Aug 01, 2008 01:54 PM Permalink
Performance in winning matches since 29 July,2007.
RE:Some time back public were baying for Sehwags head!!! now for Sachin ,Sourav & Dravid!!! what about Dhonis head !???????
by S Narain on Aug 01, 2008 01:58 PM Permalink
Look at the strike rate which is very low now after becoming Captain ....do not give selective matches figures for Dhoni ...Which match India won because of his own effort mainly!!!!!!!
RE:Some time back public were baying for Sehwags head!!! now for Sachin ,Sourav & Dravid!!! what about Dhonis head !???????
by Anurag Rathore on Aug 01, 2008 02:20 PM Permalink
Match can't win by Strike Rate. We have to put score on the board, otherwise every team will pick 11 sloggers in team.
RE:Some time back public were baying for Sehwags head!!! now for Sachin ,Sourav & Dravid!!! what about Dhonis head !???????
by sanjeev kumar on Aug 01, 2008 06:38 PM Permalink
go and hide. gruffalo is coming.
RE:Some time back public were baying for Sehwags head!!! now for Sachin ,Sourav & Dravid!!! what about Dhonis head !???????
by Anurag Rathore on Aug 01, 2008 02:12 PM Permalink
He won the match against Sri Lanka in tri-series in Australia, that was do or die match for India to reach into the final.
RE:Some time back public were baying for Sehwags head!!! now for Sachin ,Sourav & Dravid!!! what about Dhonis head !???????
by Anurag Rathore on Aug 01, 2008 02:10 PM Permalink
After becoming captain he is more responsible and consistent now.
