Monday, January 7, 2008

India’s Down in Down Under


Australians clearly dominated the first test in Melbourne were we have lost the test with huge margin. The second test in Sydney were we have dominated the most part of the match expect fourth day. The final day was truly great because both the teams fought very hard, Australians went over board making it worst ever behavior by the world champions. This shows they cannot digest when they are down and made to fight to for the survival.

Arrogance to the core by the Australians led by from the front by none other than Ricky Ponting whose is running a small bad patch after extra ordinary 4 years of test cricket. India did not able play out 72 overs or two sessions even though they had two very poor decisions by the umpires, but expect Anil Kumble no other batsman showed the grit and determination in fighting it out with the opposition.

Rahul and Sourav were playing well they were given out by poor umpiring but what about Jaffer, Laxman, Tendulkar, Yuvaraj and Dhoni they all just thrown there wickets when team needs them to play for draw. Test Cricket is all about playing out sessions especially in the fourth innings. A player could have scored triple hundred in first innings put the team sore beyond 500,but if we could last for one session in second innings he could end up in losing side this best illustrated by Lara during Sri Lankan series were he scored more than 500 runs in three test but his team lost all the three test.

We need really rethink on the composition of the team rather than disturbed by the things (umpiring decisions) which you have no control over it. Apart from Rahul we have only stroke makers in team we need to have one more player who can play out sessions in Test cricket. Last tour we had Akash Chopra and Rahul to do but this time we have only one player.

The selection committee and team management needs to rethink on the composition of the team before they pick players for the tour, here the coach plays a vital role unfortunately we don’t have one at present to plan for the tour.

1 comment:

Dhivya Dharsanam said...

Good one Partha... Expecting more blogs from you...
especially on the Indian Victory in the recent test against Aus...
Wishes from
Saravanan