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Team India can dominate for 5-10 years - Duncan Fletcher

Vinaykumar is again a crap bowler and doesn't belong to int'l games.

Of course, no harm in trying them especially now that they're in the squad.
 
CoolSERAZ said:
but as a keeper he is pretty good. and it was his debut test and he was facing steyn, morkel, etc. he made duck in the 1st inning and in 2nd inning made the 30 and prevented a massive defeat(though we were beaten badly).
tbh, he hasnt been seen enough. his domestic averages are impressive for a keeper.
unlike dhawan who has played 5 odis and a t20 and scored nothing more than a scratchy 50.
series is won. no harm in trying saha and vinay.
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Dhawan was ordinary, everyone knew that. It amazes me why the selectors tried him in the first place. A BIG same for Manoj Tiwary, who, especially was looking clueless against the 1 cm here 1 cm there moving ball.

On a side note we need to find younger keepers to replace Dhoni eventually.
 
SG said:
Vinaykumar is again a crap bowler and doesn't belong to int'l games.

Of course, no harm in trying them especially now that they're in the squad.
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Agree, another highly ordinary guy.
 
Well being #1 test team for two years qualifies as domination i guess :)
 
Its not 2 years as of now. Still 5 months to go.
 
Agree about Tiwary.

It was such a golden chance for him to shine against not so hot WI attack, opening the batting after India already winning the series.

Whats more he could've asked for?
 
Statsman said:
Agree, another highly ordinary guy.
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I wonder how come these crapsters keep on getting selected whenever big guns are being rested? Why don't we try untried and untested like Deepak Chahar and Varun Aaron (freelance would be delighted) and Umesh Yadav?
 
Statsman said:
Take Ajmal out of the Pakistan team and you have a team which doesn't deserve Test Status :)
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It is not about Pakistan, but INdia we are talking here, so why are you dragging Pak into it. This is true, Pak found this out when 7 Greatest players retired in 2003, INdia will soon find it out, when four or 5 tops retire,
 
I know the last two ODI's were dead rubbers but these second string players look average. No wonder they want Sachin to play until he's 50.
 
I'm not sure why duncan fletcher has said this, england have far more talent at their disposal.
 
The team India fielded today was the most inexperienced one in years. Suresh Raina with 100 odd ODIs under his belt was by far the most experienced guy. I think for such a young team, they did okay. If the batting hadn't collapsed towards the end the game may have gone our way.
 
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Fletcher was simply saying that due to being coach and there is nothing wrong with that. I think even now they are very good team but thye were never a dominant team to begin with.
 
Once Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman go...they'll go downhill IMO
 
Mohsin said:
Once Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman go...they'll go downhill IMO
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That's true for any team, Remove an experienced middle order, replace them with relatively inexeprienced guys and the results will not be any good.
 
Yeap, India is really dominating against England.......................

Oh yeah, wheres that Nitesh_Mate user.
 
Personally i feel duncan fletcher has been too hindred by his coaching stint at england and the emotional involvment he still has as displayed by his articles in a uk newspaper.

I reckon he is the biggest weakness, in the indian set up.
 
I think it will not be long before we see a decline in Indian standards. First, the big guns are almost near the age of retirment, thee are big boots to fill in. Second, the fast bowlers are okay, not great, with batting powerhouse gone, India would struggle to post huge scores or bat to draw, hence would find it difficult to hold on to number 1,
 
Fletcher's boast was baseless. I always knew that India would struggle in England.

Their main problem has always been their weak pace attack. Injuries, fitness problems happen on every tour but they simply do not have good back up talent or depth in the pace department. Once Zaheer got injured, the rest of the seam attack was quickly found out (except for the odd good session with the ball). Zaheer too is decent rather than exceptional. Not condoing what Aamir did last year but even a young Aamir caused English batsmen all sorts of problems on the Pak tour in 2010. Purely as a left arm pacer, I rate him above Zaheer.

Besides one Zaheer is not enough on such testing tours. You need atleast 3 really good seamers in the side at any one time. England on the other hand have two good back-up bowlers in Bresnan and Finn (besides Broad, Anderson and Tremlett). Let's just accept that atleast in English conditions, England are much better than India

Also Sehwag's replacement Mukund has been a total failure. This series was not the time for experimentation

Bottom line you cannot be world number one for much long with a club standard bowling attack. Either accept that and work on it or keep looking for excuses. Also not playing Kohli does not make sense. Good batting cannot bail you out all the time if your bowling is club standard

India desperately need a good pace bowling coach
 
Reading back I said India will never have trouble in the spin department but seeing their no.1 prefered bowler Harbajhan Singh get a beating I'm starting to wonder. Mishra and Ojha have to some something special because if India start struggling in the spin department too they will go downhill quicker than the cheese on coopers hill.
 
I dont think any team can stay at top without winning away series. England will have to win in subcontinent otherwise number 1 ranking can be lost after just 1 bad series as shown by India now. Which makes Austalia dominance even more amazing.
 
Winning away from home is the strength of true numbers 1s.

Demolishing away from home is the sign of true champions.
 
Uncle Dunc,

After making this statement India haven't even dominated a single team for 5-10 sessions, never mind dominate world cricket for 5-10 years.
 
who needs trolls when you have the ozzie players and who needs a jinx when you have dunc..Thats it India you need to hire a pakistani coach..!!
 
duncan fletcher is only there for the cash,, nothing else... and him making bold claims that india can dominate for 5-10 years is just to keep indian public happy,

surely any honest cricketer will say india's dominance can't last to long especially with the legends ageing,
 
Dominate the World Test Championship Division Two possibly, which will soon be created by the BCCI so India can still be in a league when they slip down the rankings.
 
India has never been "dominant" in its entire history.

They have probably have had good success in phases in certain geographical locations.
 
hahahaha :))) :))) what a thread ,exactly after six months when statement was made . look how is India dominating the cricket world now
 
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Team India can dominate for 5-10 years losing abraod.Donkey Fletcher
 
CoolSERAZ said:
^^
he is 38. if his reflexes had to catch up, they would have done uptil now.
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India is pathetic... because I remember Kapil dev... he wanted to retire lot early but everyone is asking to break Hadlee's record of highest wickets... kapil took couple of years to break the record while playing lots of Tests matches he messed up his avg.. soo badly that in the end when he used to ball.. everyone knew he will not take wicket... and he ended his career bowling badly... same you guyz are doing with Tendulkar... 100 centuries 100 centruies 100 centries.. and in process... he will play more tests.. play badly... mess up his avg.... but alll you guyz worry about records..... and by the way... looking at the records.. we used to think that.. Hadlee's record is invincible no one can break it... look how many wickets Murli had taken... soo don't worry someone will come and break tendulkar's record too
 
Arcturus said:
Impressed with the young side that has dominated West Indies in the ongoing ODI series, India's new coach Duncan Fletcher declared that given the talent, his wards can dominate world cricket for the next 5-10 years.

"It is due to the amount of talent India have. Indian cricket is in a very, very healthy state presently," stated Fletcher. India beat the hosts by three wickets on Saturday to claim an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match ODI series.

"I know five years in international cricket is a long time but unless some international teams suddenly come up, I don't see (India losing its grip)," added the Zimbabwean.

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Maybe Felcher should worry about the next six months first eh.
 
Team is being coached by Zebra from Zimbabwe ! joke of the year from Fletcher what a plonker!

Team Endia getting one hell of dominating down under!!!!!
 
Team is being coached by Zebra from Zimbabwe ! joke of the year from Fletcher what a plonker!

Team Endia getting one hell of dominating down under!!!!!
 
In three days, Agent Fletcher will lose his 8 straight test match on Aussie soil.
 
Wonder if Felcher will be there in 5-10 years.
 
"I know five years in international cricket is a long time but unless some international teams suddenly come up, I don't see (India losing its grip)," added the Zimbabwean.
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the sheer arrogance of this statement defies belief..what talent? where is it? Vinay Kumar? really? aswin? really? the forst thing they should do is make them do sit ups and get rid of their fat bellies!! what load a load of nonsense!
 
I think if India get BCCI to demote them to a non-test playing nation and they regularly play ireland, holland etc... yeah they can dominate for 5-10 years. :)
 
What a rub on the wounds:facepalm:

Having said that, my interpretation of what he wanted to convey was that, India can dominate for next 5-10 years if it plays at home against Zimbabwe.
 
lol what a negative statement. Most coaches don't even last five years. And the way things are going, he definitely won't. India needs results now.
 
Duncan Fletcher said:
I know five years in international cricket is a long time but unless some international teams suddenly come up, I don't see India losing it's grip
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Any of the old (pre 2005) Pakpassioners remeber those epic "Ahahahahahahaha" threads created by our friend nadeem every time India got humiliated like this...we would never see the end of them if nadeem was still around, given Indias current heroics.
 
are we gonna play them in the Asian test championship? would be an ideal time to beat them.
 
Who expected Pak to rise from the lows they suffered during England tour? Cricket is a funny game my friend....
 
Sandeep99 said:
Who expected Pak to rise from the lows they suffered during England tour? Cricket is a funny game my friend....
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that is why they say always be humble even in victory. I remember the comments of your countrymen on cricinfo, talking about how the indian side rivals that of australia in the 90s and early 2000s.
 
It took this bumped thread to make me realize Fletcher is our team's coach. Not kidding.
 
Epic bumpability.

India could yet do well, but they have to discard SRT and rebuild the middle order.
 
This Duncan Fletcher has brought the defeatist mentality of the english players to our dressing room..must be sacked and sent packing..
 
Dunc must have been smoking some fresh ganja from the Mumbai market that day!
 
hahaha, this has got to be one of the top 5 'timely bumps' in the history of PP.
 
I think Duncan Fletcher said "India can be dominated for another 10 years"
 
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