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42.2 Bravo to Kaif, FOUR
42.1 Bravo to Dhoni, 1 run, a mis-field results in a run! full toss and driven straight to Sarwan at point, who fumbles. Dhoni on strike now! Here we go!
End of over 42 (maiden) - India 228/4 (25 runs required from 18 balls, RR 5.42, RRR: 8.33)
M Kaif 51* (81b 1x4) JE Taylor 8-1-48-0
MS Dhoni 14* (9b 1x4 1x6) DJ Bravo 7-0-32-1
41.6 Taylor to Kaif, 1 leg bye, Ah! just a run. full and angling intowards the pads, Kaif has a flash, misses and it runs to short third man for a run
Indian said:kaif is so lucky...44444
43.3 Taylor to Raina, no run, short of length, around the off stump, pushed to cover, where Lara fields and has a shy at non-strikers end and if he had hit Kaif would have been dead
248-5karachiite said:whats the score and equation?
Oxy™ said:2 from 2 balls - a risky single - would have been out if it hit by miles
spindoctor said:India win despite Kaif's slow innings....this should have been a simpler win...wonder why he can't rotate the strike or get the big hits!
karachiite said:18th successful chase in a row isnt it? Well done India, this experience in the WI conditions will serve them well for the world cup. They seem favourites for the WC now.
Big Mac said:He wanted to make it exciting for the fans
Tupac said:lol, hash, better dayz will come soon man, keep ya head up
Whippy squash said:Wonder where the Indians who wanted Kaif dropped for Ganguly because the youngster was out of form for a few innings are now?
India are better off without Ganguly and Tendulkar right now, no matter what any Indians say. Chappell and Dravid might have their flaws but they seem to be the only people in India who realise that the crop of young players are in fact a lot better than certain older players who are crap.
Whippy squash said:Tendu is crap, his presence has been holding India back. You saw yesterdays run chase, Dravid is an unselfish player that the Indian team genuinely look up to, he is a batsman that is talented and consistent enough to build your batting lineup around. Dravid can be a matchwinner, Tendu is not the man to play that role anymore, even if the occasional 80 or 90 every 8 innings gets Indians foaming at the mouth about being 'back to his best', he is clearly past it
Tendu does not deserve a place in either Indian test or ODI teams at the moment. Now Kaif is back in form, there isnt a single team regular who deserves to be out of the team for Tendu, unless they are going to drop Sehwag, which is very unlikely considering his financial worth. It's sad thats the way cricket is these days, and a younger player will probably be made the scapegoat after 1 failure, to accomodate Tendu's grand return as per usual...
Whippy squash said:Tendu is crap, his presence has been holding India back. You saw yesterdays run chase, Dravid is an unselfish player that the Indian team genuinely look up to, he is a batsman that is talented and consistent enough to build your batting lineup around. Dravid can be a matchwinner, Tendu is not the man to play that role anymore, even if the occasional 80 or 90 every 8 innings gets Indians foaming at the mouth about being 'back to his best', he is clearly past it
Tendu does not deserve a place in either Indian test or ODI teams at the moment. Now Kaif is back in form, there isnt a single team regular who deserves to be out of the team for Tendu, unless they are going to drop Sehwag, which is very unlikely considering his financial worth. It's sad thats the way cricket is these days, and a younger player will probably be made the scapegoat after 1 failure, to accomodate Tendu's grand return as per usual...
EvergreenCricketer said:I accept everyone can have his opinion. Here is my opinion: If someone thinks Tendulkar is crap, that someone should get his/her brain checked.
Surely he is not God as his fans portray, but he is more than normal international cricketer one will find.
Whippy squash said:Tendu is crap, his presence has been holding India back. You saw yesterdays run chase, Dravid is an unselfish player that the Indian team genuinely look up to, he is a batsman that is talented and consistent enough to build your batting lineup around. Dravid can be a matchwinner, Tendu is not the man to play that role anymore, even if the occasional 80 or 90 every 8 innings gets Indians foaming at the mouth about being 'back to his best', he is clearly past it
Tendu does not deserve a place in either Indian test or ODI teams at the moment. Now Kaif is back in form, there isnt a single team regular who deserves to be out of the team for Tendu, unless they are going to drop Sehwag, which is very unlikely considering his financial worth. It's sad thats the way cricket is these days, and a younger player will probably be made the scapegoat after 1 failure, to accomodate Tendu's grand return as per usual...
Playa said:Players like Sachin Tendulkar only comes once in 50 years or once in a 100, Tendulkar is really consistant, in both forms of the games, he has won matches for India, and single-handedly before, Sachin can play 2 ways, he can build the innings like Dravid and he can go aggresive like Dhoni, Sachin is natrually a aggreasive player.
Tendulkar is not past his best, and how is Sachin selfish?
Sachin is very expierenced, he is very vital to the world cup odi team for India, if they are going to win the world cup in 07.
Tendulkar is better then all those players in the Indian team, are your going to say that Raina or Kaif is better then Sachin?, just becuase Sachin is been out of form for the first time in his 17 year career.
Like Tupac said you did not see the odi series vs Pak, Sachin scored a 100 in the first match bulding the innings, in his second match Sachin scored nearly a run a ball 42, with the highest quility of shots, in the 3rd match Sachin scored nearly a run a ball 95 he scored 16 fours and 1 six, he was anchoring the innings and going aggreasive at times when needed, chasing a huge total of 289, ndia was at one stage 84-3 with Dravid gone, he was out at 189-4, and dont forget Sachin is a opener in odis.
And by saying Sachin is crap, you need to get your head checked out.
Whippy squash said:And yet all that can be countered by a simple look at most of his recent performances. What has he done lately? A hundred and a 95 in the Pakistan ODI series, and a home ton against Sri Lanka. Oooooo. There are several players in the Indian team, not to mention LOADS of players from other teams that have been better of late. And yet Tendulkar is still 'apparently' better
I also must correct you, I never called SRT selfish. I just said Dravid was unselfish, never that SRT was selfish. If everytime an Indian batsman is mentioned as unselfish and the SRT fans blow up and assume you are accusing their God of being a selfish player, wouldn't that show an insecurity of sorts anyway?
Yuvraj, Dhoni and Dravid (just to name 3 Indians) have been a lot more consistent lately and have been putting in more important performances in both forms of the game, how on earth is SRT still the best batsman in the Indian team when he has been scoring so few runs?
The joke that is Indian selection process was summed up when Tendulkar was selected throughout the England tour when he was playing completely uselessly, yet Kaif saved his team from defeat in the 1st test with a gritty 91 (more runs than SRT scored in the entire series), and Kaif lost his place while they continued to pick SRT. No matter how badly SRT performs he is still picked, and that is a disgrace. India would have played more convincingly in the test series, shock horror, if they had NOT played SRT and played the guys that were actually scoring. Then again, never let facts get in the way of people's agendas!
Like I have said, Chappel and Dravid aren't the best all-round coach/captain in the world but they seem to be the only people in India who understand the best actual long-term plans for Indian cricket, it is plain to see that the ODI side has been better when it has been built around Dravid and the young boys who are hungry for team success, and while the test side is in transition, it will obviously improve. Sacking Ganguly was completely the correct move, and unless SRT gets straight back into his stride when he makes his latest comeback, his days shuld be correctly judged as numbered.
In the end it seems that no matter how blatant SRT's decline becomes, circles of Indian fans will always be convinced he is a consistent matchwinner, still the best (once he was, but not anymore), deserves a place in the side because of who he is (at the moment, he really doesn't deserve a place)...
As for the head checked out thing? If 3-4 decent knocks out of god knows how many recent innings doesn't make SRT a poor batsman at this present time, I don't know what does. I'm legally sane you know![]()
MIG - sorry for going OTT before
Mat I NO Runs HS1 HS2 HS3 Ave 100 50 0
unfiltered 362 353 33 14146 186* 152 146 44.20 39 72 16
filtered 14 14 1 504 100 95 93 38.76 1 3 1
Whippy squash said:I like it how you say 'openers' (I talked about all players, not just openers) to try and narrow down what would be a decent sized list. I also like it how you compeltely ignored his test performances.
Whippy squash said:And yet all that can be countered by a simple look at most of his recent performances. What has he done lately? A hundred and a 95 in the Pakistan ODI series, and a home ton against Sri Lanka. Oooooo. There are several players in the Indian team, not to mention LOADS of players from other teams that have been better of late. And yet Tendulkar is still 'apparently' better
I also must correct you, I never called SRT selfish. I just said Dravid was unselfish, never that SRT was selfish. If everytime an Indian batsman is mentioned as unselfish and the SRT fans blow up and assume you are accusing their God of being a selfish player, wouldn't that show an insecurity of sorts anyway?
Yuvraj, Dhoni and Dravid (just to name 3 Indians) have been a lot more consistent lately and have been putting in more important performances in both forms of the game, how on earth is SRT still the best batsman in the Indian team when he has been scoring so few runs?
The joke that is Indian selection process was summed up when Tendulkar was selected throughout the England tour when he was playing completely uselessly, yet Kaif saved his team from defeat in the 1st test with a gritty 91 (more runs than SRT scored in the entire series), and Kaif lost his place while they continued to pick SRT. No matter how badly SRT performs he is still picked, and that is a disgrace. India would have played more convincingly in the test series, shock horror, if they had NOT played SRT and played the guys that were actually scoring. Then again, never let facts get in the way of people's agendas!
Like I have said, Chappel and Dravid aren't the best all-round coach/captain in the world but they seem to be the only people in India who understand the best actual long-term plans for Indian cricket, it is plain to see that the ODI side has been better when it has been built around Dravid and the young boys who are hungry for team success, and while the test side is in transition, it will obviously improve. Sacking Ganguly was completely the correct move, and unless SRT gets straight back into his stride when he makes his latest comeback, his days shuld be correctly judged as numbered.
In the end it seems that no matter how blatant SRT's decline becomes, circles of Indian fans will always be convinced he is a consistent matchwinner, still the best (once he was, but not anymore), deserves a place in the side because of who he is (at the moment, he really doesn't deserve a place)...
As for the head checked out thing? If 3-4 decent knocks out of god knows how many recent innings doesn't make SRT a poor batsman at this present time, I don't know what does. I'm legally sane you know![]()
MIG - sorry for going OTT before
Whippy squash said:And yet all that can be countered by a simple look at most of his recent performances. What has he done lately? A hundred and a 95 in the Pakistan ODI series, and a home ton against Sri Lanka. Oooooo. There are several players in the Indian team, not to mention LOADS of players from other teams that have been better of late. And yet Tendulkar is still 'apparently' better
I also must correct you, I never called SRT selfish. I just said Dravid was unselfish, never that SRT was selfish. If everytime an Indian batsman is mentioned as unselfish and the SRT fans blow up and assume you are accusing their God of being a selfish player, wouldn't that show an insecurity of sorts anyway?
Yuvraj, Dhoni and Dravid (just to name 3 Indians) have been a lot more consistent lately and have been putting in more important performances in both forms of the game, how on earth is SRT still the best batsman in the Indian team when he has been scoring so few runs?
The joke that is Indian selection process was summed up when Tendulkar was selected throughout the England tour when he was playing completely uselessly, yet Kaif saved his team from defeat in the 1st test with a gritty 91 (more runs than SRT scored in the entire series), and Kaif lost his place while they continued to pick SRT. No matter how badly SRT performs he is still picked, and that is a disgrace. India would have played more convincingly in the test series, shock horror, if they had NOT played SRT and played the guys that were actually scoring. Then again, never let facts get in the way of people's agendas!
Like I have said, Chappel and Dravid aren't the best all-round coach/captain in the world but they seem to be the only people in India who understand the best actual long-term plans for Indian cricket, it is plain to see that the ODI side has been better when it has been built around Dravid and the young boys who are hungry for team success, and while the test side is in transition, it will obviously improve. Sacking Ganguly was completely the correct move, and unless SRT gets straight back into his stride when he makes his latest comeback, his days shuld be correctly judged as numbered.
In the end it seems that no matter how blatant SRT's decline becomes, circles of Indian fans will always be convinced he is a consistent matchwinner, still the best (once he was, but not anymore), deserves a place in the side because of who he is (at the moment, he really doesn't deserve a place)...
As for the head checked out thing? If 3-4 decent knocks out of god knows how many recent innings doesn't make SRT a poor batsman at this present time, I don't know what does. I'm legally sane you know![]()
MIG - sorry for going OTT before