AKane

Imagine being Gill, Rohit and having to deal with this fellow on tours.... can take a toll on your nerves. Only guy who could have handled him was peak Kohli. He could have given it back to him.

I hope Sarfaraz does well.... he should focus on the IPL where even a limited player like Dinesh Karthik was able to do very well. India A tours are one thing but from there it is a long way to the test team and with the current powers that be it is difficult. Focus on IPL, earn enough and take care of family.

I guess some award for this year's "Shreyas Iyer" who would be Patidar?

Rajat Patidar with RCB reminds me of Manmohan Singh with India. Same vibes.......

I still think that some late night parties affected the 2003 final. Maybe not the previous night but certainly a couple of nights out. Zaheer looked drunk in his first over but the real shocker was Srinath. A guy with 10 years experience bowled absolute filth. Everything was swept under the carpet with - "Oh that Aus team is just too good". Here are the figures of Shane Bond vs that same team..... 10-2-23-6. Now compare Zaheer and esp Srinath.

They did..... they were helped by the fact that the main bowler for the Paks was at that time Sarfraz Nawaz and he completed his 12 overs while getting his last wicket which was the 9th wicket to fall. Besides Sarfraz Nawaz they had no world class bowlers. Imran was yet to come on the scene. Till Sarfraz was there - they could build prssure bowling. Once he was done... they were not international class. Asif Masood averaged 41 odd per wicket in tests. Pervez Mir and Naseer never played a test. They had some medium pace and part time spinners in Miandad and Wasim Raja and Mushtaq Mohd bowling to the last wicket as far as I recall listening commentary on radio then. Mushtaq Mohd later became a decent spinner but was not one at the time of the WC.

Congrats Virat Kohli!!

Okay Suryakumar has won a whiteball trophy. <clap> <clap>. Enjoy!!

I would like to see how cool headed he stays when Kohli is not in the team. It is Kohli's team - Patidar is just holding the post/door.

OH you found out :) Sneaked in uhmmm..... I need a "strategic timeout". Started discussing Bhuvneshwar and ended up making Unadkat a star. That is too much even for me!

Jayadev? Star? Are you talking about Unadkat?

Hazlewood is at any level - but lets not get carried away after that. We all know about Bhuvneshwar - he is the bowling equiv of the peerless KL with the bat.

I don't like the #%@$ but Hazlewood is not a trundler at 6'5" height.

But as Rafael Nadal said - nobody remembers runner ups. He and his team were not even runner up.

Kohli won the IPL title by playing 2 matches in knockouts - both against Guj Midgets!!!! Now that is luck and strategy rolled into one.