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Cricket: Pity poor Dinesh Karthik. A split-second lapse in concentration and composure at LordÂ’s yesterday is destined to haunt him for the rest of his career. He will never escape the stigma135445419More... How dozy Dinesh was lefty hapless and capless By CHRIS FOY - More by this author » Last updated at 23:12pm on 19th July 2007 Pity poor Dinesh Karthik. A split-second lapse in concentration and composure at Lord's yesterday is destined to haunt him for the rest of his career. He will never escape the stigma. India's 22-year-old batsman is bound to become a reluctant on-line star of YouTube within days. By rights, he should soon be a fixture in every 'sporting b****ers' compilation. 099drop_468x684.jpg His crime was to drop a catch, nothing more. But as an excrutiating, slap-stick howler of the highest order, it had everything. When Andrew Strauss — on 43 — slashed a drive in the air towards backward point, where Karthik lay in wait, he bowed his head in anguish — a condemned man awaiting the guillotine. But the blade never fell. Although the hapless fielder was perfectly placed, he appeared inexplicably to lose his balance and the ball cannoned off his up-turned fingers. Then came the Question of Sport 'What happened next?' moment, as the ball struck the peak of his cap, knocking it off his head. Talk about adding insult to injury. To drop a 'dolly' in front of 25,000 spectators and a massive television audience was enough embarrassment for one player to take. But the knife had been twisted and the laughter that cascaded down from the stands was surely the final straw. Yet, Karthik's ordeal dragged on as Strauss painstakingly added another 53 runs. And the derision heading his way was fuelled by the fact that he is a wicketkeeper by trade. Such catches should be his bread and butter. Perhaps he needs the gloves to protect frail hands. There was a neat — possibly intentional — irony in the fact that Sky Sports sent Sportsmail columnist Nasser Hussain out to the scene of the crime during the tea break, to analyse Karthik's b****er. The former England captain suffered his own catching calamity just yards away, back in 2003, when he spilled the simplest of chances off Graeme Smith, the South Africa skipper — who went on to make 259. In fact, there must be something in the air at Lord's which scrambles the senses. England dropped nine catches at the famous old ground during the Test against Sri Lanka last year. Paul Collingwood was guilty of two fumbles and he is rightly regarded as one of the world's premier fielders. India have few of those at their disposal. Karthik's drop yesterday was the headline act in an often clumsy display from Rahul Dravid's men. Rather bizarrely, on day one of the series, the tourists lacked urgency and energy. Their body language soon suggested a collective mood of weary resignation, as if every English boundary was merely confirming their worst fears. There was little evidence of the players exchanging words of advice and encouragement and Dravid was by no means an animated leader. When Strauss drove through extra cover in search of his 50, Zaheer Khan gave chase but then tamely allowed the ball to slide past. Later, that most casual of fielders, Sourav Ganguly, seemed destined to cut off a boundary, only to bellyflop over the ball. While many of the Indian players are short on natural athletic flair, there must also be questions asked about their technique. This was fielding from a by-gone era. India have a fielding coach, Robin Singh, and he must strive to change attitudes as well as hone hand-eye co-ordination. In a series likely to be dominated by batsmen, the tourists need to bring vibrancy to their game in the field. They have arrived in England as a team without a head coach, a team driven on by its core of senior players led by Dravid. It is up to him and his lieutenants to show that system can work.

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during the highlight package on sky they had dedicated 15-20 min analyzing how kartick dropped the catch. Infact Nasser Hussain went down to the ground and showed exactly where kartick was standing wht his view was and wht mistake he made.
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A perfect example of an article on a 'slow news' day. Has nobody from the English team ever dropped a sitter? Just a routine day's play gets over-analysed just because there was no other news from the day. How about concentrating how the English batsmen gave it away after a start, with stupid laughable shots. Strause thought he had the flair to bring up the 100 in style of Sehwag. Vaughan gets out on a lazy stroke. Collingwood sleeps and misses the googly, pads it up. What more mediocrity does one want?

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A perfect example of an article on a 'slow news' day. Has nobody from the English team ever dropped a sitter? Just a routine day's play gets over-analysed just because there was no other news from the day. How about concentrating how the English batsmen gave it away after a start, with stupid laughable shots. Strause thought he had the flair to bring up the 100 in style of Sehwag. Vaughan gets out on a lazy stroke. Collingwood sleeps and misses the googly, pads it up. What more mediocrity does one want?
Well, you don't expect English media to be like the Indian one eh.. The pommie media get struck into the opponents. They can be pretty harsh on the home team too but they reserve the best for the opponents while glorifying everyone that can score about 10 runs and take 2 wickets in a test match as the "NEXT IAN BOTHAM". :D On the other hand Indian media will question why Tendulkar only scored 37 runs and make Anderson sound like Malcom Marshall.
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Well, you don't expect English media to be like the Indian one eh.. The pommie media get struck into the opponents. They can be pretty harsh on the home team too but they reserve the best for the opponents while glorifying everyone that can score about 10 runs and take 2 wickets in a test match as the "NEXT IAN BOTHAM". :D On the other hand Indian media will question why Tendulkar only scored 37 runs and make Anderson sound like Malcom Marshall.
True, our media "elite" is yet to find it's identity as indians. In fact, most indian "elites" are yet to find their identity.
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