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Sure poor use of DRS and under bowling Jadeja were tactical blunders. 100% agreed. But look at the body language and intensity of the players. I thought Aussies would run away with the game by end of day2. I imagined drooping shoulders and pathetic loser attitude but I was proven wrong. the focus and grit and intensity was off the charts. pick a name for the best master strategist captain ever and there will be 10s of instances of muck ups by them. I have seen tons of instances of drooping shoulders under Dhoni,Ganguly,Dravid or Azhar the most successful captains from India. This team is something else...from what looked like a hopeless situation on the beginning of day2...it looks like we are still with a shot. For all the blunders this is really a heartwarming quality which shows great promise.

Kulwant Khejroliya today in VH Trophy 8-1-23-5 He has picked up 13 wickets in only 5 List A matches so far at an average of 14.7 and an economy rate of only 4.2 He is supposed to be genuinely fast too and a left-armer. Will we see him as a net bowler in the Team India nets in the near future, so that Kumble and Kohli can have a look at him and practice against him ?

Well beer is waking up but little slow

If someone told me yesterday we would be having 10 wkts in hand while trailing by less than 50 I would've taken it with both hands.

Lol Jadeja averages 23 against lefties. Ashwin averages 24 Ishant 32 and Umesh averages 27 But keep posting those random theories.

Khejroliya has 5. And he's still got overs left.

Khejroliya 3 wickets for 11 runs so far in 3 overs

yeah, he is an overrated captain, because he isn't tactically excellent. Above average, but he has a long, long way to go to be in the same class as Ranatunga, Mark Taylor, Steve Waugh, Hansie Cronje, Stephen Fleming, etc. as 'great captains'. He is an aggressive captain, who always come off better than they are (as opposed to defensive captains, who always come off poorer than they are) but Kohli is a rare Indian captain that knows what to do with fast bowlers, but is below average (by Indian standards) on what to do with spinners. Either way, blaming Kohli the captain is missing the point - Kohli the fielder is a poor catcher close in and that is his weakest suit. This generation of Indian batsmen grew up idolizing ODI glory and as such, we have a very good set of outfielders, who are all about throwing themselves around and saving boundaries. but they have lost the art of close in catching and the conclusion that the current indian team is the worst slip & close-in catching team atleast since the 1960s, if not ever, is pretty inescapable.

Ashwin has been outbowled by every other spinner in the series.

Jaddu has made Kohli captaincy look very very bizzare.

Khejroliya has picked up 13 wickets from only 5 matches at an average of only 14. One of the best pacers of this tournament so far. It's sad that we won't be able to see him in QF

Sachin gone, dravid.and laxman fighting to save the match

Great bowling from Kulwant . Unfortunately he won't be able to play the knockout phase and telecasted matches as Delhi is almost out of the tournament Instead we will be seeing Vinni Kumar , Aravind etc Prefer zonal system any day

We would have needed a separate thread to discuss that decision anyway. Stuge

And we are looking for such a fast bowler.... who is actually getting results. His ER is impressive too

Don't understand why he takes so many risky shots when he plays so well. We played Rahul. Gave us a chance. Now let's go and get a daddy hundred.

Phaast brigade needs to ease up with their fanaticism.

Under kohli . There is energy , fight ,Intensity . No doubts this is a massive positive change

Ashwin bowled 49 overs, so, there's nothing wrong in his handling of spinners but Australia having so many left handers dictated Ashwin bowled more being an off spinner. I think keeping pacers in the play is good thing. It will force them pick wickets and be more responsible. Good for their development. Not a short-sighted tactic. And if all the catches had been taken. Shaun Marsh's review was taken, pacers would have had 5 wickets between them on the second day and AUSTRALIA wouldn't have gotten that big a lead. So, captaincy was not that bad apart from over-bowling Ashwin and under-bowling Jaddu but fielding and Drs tactics let us down.

Top edge gone for six! Thank You Chinnaswamy

Good start this. Mukund should face more of Lyon than the right handers.

Cmon Viper. You are much better than this tripe. I have seen your earlier posts 2~3 years back. Dhoni is retired Man. Nothing is going to change. All the Indian cricket fans want their team to win. Contribute in a positive manner. Now only option to take forward this team is Kohli. Do you have any other option? Agreed he is having a bad series. Even here he should have used Jaddu much earlier given Ash ineffectiveness.

I can see why jadeja only got 20 overs now. You guys were being merciful and trying to make the game more interesting.

Ishant man-bun makes him look like a samurai...bowls like a ninja.... results look like the laughing Buddha

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