On the 1st day, within 2 hours, our bowlers got to bowl on the pitch on which the SA bowlers blew our batsmen off. What we see - they bowl like ladies - with no pace, bounce and swing. Pathetic. Instead of bolwing bouncers at their chest and throat, what is bowled are friendly deliveries, below knee height and drivable length balls or simply wild ones. Yorkers are bowled once in 5 tests.
Sree, RP and Pathan are not good enough to play a test match. They are overated and they take wickets if the wickets helps in swing. Today, even that didnt happen. Bhajji is too overated and Kumble will take wickets only on the 4th and 5th day. The batting and bowling is simply disappointing. Dhoni has forgotten how to bat. Yuvraj will play a mind blowing innings in a ODI, once in 30 matches. All heroes - but zeros on the field.
This match will go in favour of SA by the 4th day, unless Calcutta, 2003 is repeated. Dravid / Laxman - can you do it again?
RE:Useless bowling attack
by sekhar raja on Apr 03, 2008 06:24 PM Permalink
hello mathew,
Agreed our batsmen failed miserably,but correct your cricketing knowledge, kumble is the only indian player to have won us most matches(than even tendulkar)-21 if i am not wrong. and about the bowling, the same set of bowlers won us the matches, the problem is the coach and over-praising media,public.we should not blame bowlers on indian pitches, they are taught to bowl under-pitched and over-pitch abroad. what is prasad doing, biting nails? its time we stop making heroes out of them overnight.
RE:Useless bowling attack
by Sam on Apr 03, 2008 06:33 PM Permalink
Plz understand all were in dctored pitches in India between 1992 - 1998.. against lowly teams like England, Zimbabwe, Srilanka etc
RE:Useless bowling attack
by V Mathew on Apr 03, 2008 06:46 PM Permalink
Raj, your points are well noted. Not disputing the fact that Kumble has won us many matches than sachin. However, Kumble is not deadly in the 1st 3 days (even though he may pick up wickets) and he needs the pitch to develop cracks to take advantage on the 4th and 5th day unlike Warne and Murlidharan who spin the ball so much on day 1 and 2.
The pitch at Chepauk didnt crack even on the 5th day and how many wickets did Kumble get? We may not win the test match after scoring 76, but thought the bowling was spineless and in-effective.
RE:Useless bowling attack
by P ROHIT on Apr 03, 2008 06:30 PM Permalink
wen the team is doing fantastically without a coach and wen lalchand rajput had gelled well with the team...the headless bunch of jokers had to remove rajput and bring a bald foriegner just to have someone to put the failures on..... what a pity....i guess there should be a mass usurping against these beggars and Kapil Dev should become its Chief....only then can we say that yes we a good CRICKET organization...
RE:Useless bowling attack
by prabhakar pandit on Apr 03, 2008 06:30 PM Permalink
Hello selectors, Make dear Mathew the Captain and let him select a team.hurrah!
