It was a Shameful performance by such a great Crickter. 51 runs in 110 balls can hardly be appritiated. He wasted around 60 balls which amounts to 10 overs. On an average of 5 runs per over we could have managed 50 more runs and 270 was surely a winning total.
Dada had the worst ECON RATE than any other indian batsman (Leaving behind Dravid who was out of the first ball) in the same match.
The aggression in his balling that he has when playing as a captain was not present. The final ball of the match which dropped a few yards before Saurav was worth trying for a catch. Either had accepted the defeat or he was not intrested in India's win under Dravid's captancy.
If you see his batting strategy, he always takes too many balls for reaching till 50-60, then he starts improving his ECON RATE and by the time he reaches 100 his ECON is not too bad and if he manages to move further his ECON goes on improving. But the fact is that he rarly reaches 50. So that proves to be a major loss for Indias batting.
The fact that even after getting only 5-6 50s in his last 50 one day matches, his average is still above 40 proves that he was a great Batsman. But so were Sunil, Kapil and many more.
