Ganguly blasts Murali Vijay and KL Rahul

[The Realist]

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Time is now running away for both Murali Vijay and KL Rahul. The openers have completely failed to justify the faith shown in them by the team management. Before coming to Australia, Rahul had played seven overseas Tests this year and crossed fifty once — 149 in the final innings of the final match in England. He had then flopped in the home series against Windies too, scoring 0, 4 and 33 not out.

 

On the other hand, Vijay endured a terrible time in South Africa and England and could not cross the fifty-run mark in either of the series. In fact, he was dropped midway through the series in England after scoring 20, 0, 6, 0 and 0 in the first two Tests. A successful stint with Essex where he scored 56, 100, 85, 80 and 2 helped him win back his place in the squad.

 

An unfortunate injury to Prithvi Shaw then helped him return to the playing eleven. But so far, neither he nor Rahul has managed to deliver. In the first Test at Adelaide, Rahul scored 2 in the first innings before scoring a promising 44 in the second. However, the Karnataka star once again flopped in the ongoing Test in Perth, scoring just 2 before being castled by Josh Hazlewood.

 

Vijay, who had scored 482 runs at an average of 60.25 on India’s last tour of Australia in 2014-15, could just manage 11 and 18 in Adelaide. And his performance was worse in the ongoing game as he was clean bowled for a duck by Mitchell Starc.

Ganguly slams openers

Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly has come down hard on the opening duo after their latest failure. The legendary batsman, who was India’s captain during the famous 1-1 draw in Australia in 2003-04,  slammed Vijay for his shot selection. He also warned that time is running out for him.

 

“As an opener, you cannot play such shots outside the sub-continent. In Murali’s all three dismissals, he tried to play the drive shots against the new ball. You’re supposed to play defensively. You cannot just play cover drives with the new ball. Murali doesn’t have much time on his hands because he didn’t perform well in England, now here after three innings you haven’t scored runs. He (Murali) has to be very careful,” Ganguly told IndiaTV.

 

He soon shifted his focus to Rahul, advising him to take a leaf out of skipper Virat Kohli‘s book in order to deal with the new ball. “Rahul needs to learn from Kohli on how to play with the new ball. If you’re born to be an opener then you have to play. You have to play defensively with the new ball around,” said Ganguly.

https://www.crictracker.com/sourav-ganguly-blasts-murali-vijay-and-kl-rahul-for-failure-in-perth/

 

[Ankit_sharma03]

6 minutes ago, The Realist said:

He soon shifted his focus to Rahul, advising him to take a leaf out of skipper Virat Kohli‘s book in order to deal with the new ball. “Rahul needs to learn from Kohli on how to play with the new ball. If you’re born to be an opener then you have to play. You have to play defensively with the new ball around,” said Ganguly.

A cricketer doesnt understand a bad patch , when his bad patch came he was also struggling to get a single run and then he blamed chappell for being vicious at him

 

Its a bad patch nothing will go right , at times an ex-cricketer shud convey to public that this is phase when happens nothing much can be done ....rather being harsh . He himself wud knw his mistake .....

 

Even if u wanna tell the mistake tell him personally, already he is facing huge public scrutiny 

[Number]

7 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

A cricketer doesnt understand a bad patch , when his bad patch came he was also struggling to get a single run and then he blamed chappell for being vicious at him

 

Its a bad patch nothing will go right , at times an ex-cricketer shud convey to public that this is phase when happens nothing much can be done ....rather being harsh . He himself wud knw his mistake .....

 

Even if u wanna tell the mistake tell him personally, already he is facing huge public scrutiny 

TBF he hasn't slammed KLR. It seems more of an advice. Play the new ball defensively. 

[Ankit_sharma03]

8 minutes ago, Number said:

TBF he hasn't slammed KLR. It seems more of an advice. Play the new ball defensively. 

wahi to bol rha hu advice dena hai personally de do

Sometime an ex shud come to rescue a current player by explaining public that its just a bad patch 

 

Look at the headline made by newspaper and this will anger pagli janta more.....this is not going to help rahul's mental state 

 

M all up for bashing someone but they can be less cruel with new players tough finding his feet or someone in bad patch. Criticism can come for irresponsibility and not learning which these guys dnt when in case of Rohit, dhawan or dhoni waha inka bewajah ka pyaar bahar aata hai 

 

 

Edited December 17, 2018 by Ankit_sharma03

[The Dark Horse]

The same guy wanted Rohit in the test team. Stop taking Ganguly seriously lol.

[mishra]

4 minutes ago, The Dark Horse said:

The same guy wanted Rohit in the test team. Stop taking Ganguly seriously lol.

Everyone is a player. Player of BCCI Politics.

[Adi BB]

2 hours ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

A cricketer doesnt understand a bad patch , when his bad patch came he was also struggling to get a single run and then he blamed chappell for being vicious at him

 

Its a bad patch nothing will go right , at times an ex-cricketer shud convey to public that this is phase when happens nothing much can be done ....rather being harsh . He himself wud knw his mistake .....

 

Even if u wanna tell the mistake tell him personally, already he is facing huge public scrutiny 

I think he does and would have personally given advice to both Raul and vijay (he likes them both ) but maybe ganguly is unavailable in Australia. 

Honestly speaking the way klr has got out this year ,if I was a die hard man of his ,I'd smash his head lol that's how angry one would be at his performances 

[Cricketics]

Original Maggi blasting instant flavored maggi noodles. 

[putrevus]

They should be ashamed of calling themselves openers, they are worse than tailender.These openers are the root cause all these defeats.Why the hell is Rahul chirping on field. 

[Ankit_sharma03]

2 hours ago, Adi BB said:

I think he does and would have personally given advice to both Raul and vijay (he likes them both ) but maybe ganguly is unavailable in Australia. 

Honestly speaking the way klr has got out this year ,if I was a die hard man of his ,I'd smash his head lol that's how angry one would be at his performances 

thats ok , a pattern has developed...when anderson was getting kohli out it was same story again n again

[Sgattick10]

Tbh, Ganguly likes Rahul a lot and wasn't too harsh on him. 

[Temujin Khaghan]

36 minutes ago, Sgattick10 said:

Tbh, Ganguly likes Rahul a lot and wasn't too harsh on him. 

Yes ganguly always encourages young boys.

[Sloane84]

Murali Vijay's test career is over.

After his disaster in England, he should never have been on this tour.

I am also not convinced by Mr. Rahul.....he has a number of technical issues. However he is young enough to correct them and he is an exceptional slip fielder.

Either he is dropped or he bats in the middle order