RE:Well done Kumble to expose the indian batting weakness
by sreekanth on Apr 04, 2008 05:14 AM Permalink
Boss the curator must be blamed, because when you play in Australia and SA u dont' find spin pitches( Why? coz that's not waht their team wants) and similarly every team prefers to have their buddy pitch atleast in the home tournament. May be this curator thought of proving his skills in making fast pitches and eventually doctored it against the home team. Probably he expected the home team to play better than what they did yesterday, but he edged the game into the hands of SA in the first place.
RE:Well done Kumble to expose the indian batting weakness
by shatrudhaprasad on Apr 04, 2008 08:45 AM Permalink
Well, if the team can bat on the 'red-hot' surface in Perth, (that's what Australians described it as) then why can't we play a comparatively less-bowler friendly surface at home. The pitch can't be any excuse for you bad display. These batsmen are after all supposed to be the best in the world. The fact is that our wickets are useless and just producing sehwag's. It's Ok if you want to have players who can improvise, but you do need players who are technically superior. Otherwise what you will get are news items like 'Australia lost Ashes in 2005' and 'Indian team got bowled out for 76'.
No doubt, it's entertaining to see Sehwag smashing out fours and sixes, but first a batsman should be technically correct, and then he can go about doing all kinds of improvisations.
