We lost BECAUSE of GANGULY. He set the tempo of the match and made bangladesh bowlers seem mighty. He opened with Sehwag and made his 50 only in the 36th over. I will not praise him for his 66 in this match. He did not play to his real capacity/experience/talent. I don't know why. Of course no one else played well. I again don't know why. Let Ganguly play his natural real game in next match and I will praise him. Not in this match. He is one of the main cause for our defeat in the first match. Dravid and Chappel are to be blamed for letting the batting go in its own slow course. What prevented them from sending someone into the field and tell the batsmen to increase strike rate? What is the experience factor everyone is talking about? Doesn't simple sense and all the experience say that a run rate of 2.3 at the end of 20 overs will only put pressure at the later course? Ganguly & co. only put pressure on themselves by their snail pace batting and they had enough experience to know it would not help. Of course bangaladesh bowlers bowled decently, but I am not ready to believe they were threatening in any manner.
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by Abhi on Mar 18, 2007 10:09 PM Permalink
Dravid and Ganguly are screwing up India. Dravid with his puppett behaviour to Chappell. Including Sehwag and that too as opener when he is totally out of form. A bad tempo to start the WC with. Then Ganguly who is one a mission to avenge his humiliation by Chappell and Dravid. He will make sure that India lose in the league matches by doing everything possible to make India lose.
Time to kick out Dravid and Ganguly.
Sachin should become captain after WC and should lead a totally revamped young team under him. Atleast the team will become good by the next WC when the young blood would be 4 years in experience.
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by Sunny Dasgupta on Mar 18, 2007 10:09 PM Permalink
Please praise Madhavan...Who wrote this article or took the interview..Shame on u...
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by Anil singh on Mar 18, 2007 11:38 PM Permalink
sunny dasgupta,u idiot bengali!Though Ganguli made 66 but he consumed too many balls for the same.He gave the upper hand too bangaldeshis.Openers job is to hit over the top.Its not the first time india had lost two early wickets but ganguly played as if the bangaldseis bowlers are unplayable.He gave negative attitude to batsmen who follwed him.But I agree it was a collective underperformance by all.But ganguly didnt do any good to team as he failed miserably whenever he danced down the track to hit a six or four.Also he ditched the team in the last stages when he should have continued batting aggressively.He really put alot of pressure on dhoni and all tailenders by getting out at wrong time.He knew the pitch as he stayed there for 129 balls but didnt hit any fours or sixes in last overs. but bottomline everybody performed badly except yuvraj and munaf patel.
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by Anil singh on Mar 18, 2007 11:40 PM Permalink
u idiot bengali!Though Ganguli made 66 but he consumed too many balls for the same.He gave the upper hand too bangaldeshis.Openers job is to hit over the top.Its not the first time india had lost two early wickets but ganguly played as if the bangaldseis bowlers are unplayable.He gave negative attitude to batsmen who follwed him.But I agree it was a collective underperformance by all.But ganguly didnt do any good to team as he failed miserably whenever he danced down the track to hit a six or four.Also he ditched the team in the last stages when he should have continued batting aggressively.He really put alot of pressure on dhoni and all tailenders by getting out at wrong time.He knew the pitch as he stayed there for 129 balls but didnt hit any fours or sixes in last overs. but bottomline everybody performed badly except yuvraj and munaf patel.
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by Faceless Spirit on Mar 18, 2007 11:09 PM Permalink
U THINK U UNDERSTAND CRICKET. U R A ROTTEN GUY SOMEHOW TRYING TO FIND FAULT WITH GANGULY U R ANOTHER SH0RTC0CK/C0CKLESS/BABYC0CK/BENDC0CK EXAMPLE OF A GUY. BEFORE COMMENTING ON CRICKET START PLAYING WITH YOUR DADS VERY SMALL CASHEWNUT C0CKBAT AND VERY SMALL CORNSIZE BALLS. Dadas fans are not so fool to go into arguments with you the jealous s0n 0f a bitch. I feel like kicking ur shitbag with my boot to burst it into pieces. U r not there to listen to any logic. ur pupose is clear to you and to me and to most of all. U r not fit in mens company ur are c0ckless. u r not in female company as u r b00bless u go and hide ur shameful body in a gutter and apply shit paste on your monkey face as cosmetics. u go to hell, and let all else live in peace.
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by Anil singh on Mar 18, 2007 11:43 PM Permalink
Faceless sprirt, U should be a typical bengali!becoz only bangalis are so coward to use a nickname to hide their own identity and then abuse the guy like madhavan who made a interesting comment.
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by shyam prasaad on Mar 18, 2007 10:11 PM Permalink
I completely agree. If we are playing against a weeker opponent, we should play with a killer instinct to increase the NRR and that is exactly Gibbs and his team did. India should learn from big teams like south africa and australia. Now India is forced to win against srilanka with a better margin, which may or may not be possible, with this attitude. Very poor captaincy by Rahul Dravid. If the batting is slow, why he didnt send a pinch hitter to increase the run rate? Why were the spinners not introduced earlier? If India did some experiment and lost the match, just like trying to score some quick runs, that is fine. But, this one shows their poor attitude towards the game.
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by abhishek dwivedi on Mar 18, 2007 10:13 PM Permalink
Madhavan....i think its high time that Seghwag should be rested for few games.Let this be WC and this kind of decision may affect moral badly.But then where is a point for high moral?Also i dont see any logic for Sachin not opening.Its coz we have 4 opener in one match.Sachin Sehwag,Ganguli and Utthappa.And out of those 4 only Sacin is capable of doing good in middle order.He has done best in opening and he shud do that here.I think chappel has done too many experiments.That has destroyed a lot.He tried pathan as alrounder and he forgot his bowling.Bhajji became economical bowler but he doesnt take wickets any more.Sachin has to come at 4 coz of his experiments only.Too much of experiments.
