Year 2019 Review

[putrevus]

43 minutes ago, mancalledsting said:

for Indian cricket history, given its previous achievements, it mattered more to win in Australia 2019 than win the WC2019. Do you disagree with this point?

Yes, Australian series is far more important in terms of cricketing acheivement.

[mancalledsting]

39 minutes ago, SK_IH said:

Who the hell are purists? I know only cricket fans. 

at least you have insight into the limitations of your knowledge

[SK_IH]

39 minutes ago, mancalledsting said:

at least you have insight into the limitations of your knowledge

Ok dimwit.

[vvvslaxman]

11 hours ago, Suhaan said:

You cannot term it that way,every side put their best players at top

Problem is our top 3 our big time chokers,one of them was needed to carry his bat that day and we would have cruised to the final,but the tendency to bottle up by our finest batsmen in crucial moments have been our Achilles heel in recent times,we were 5/3 ,it has become a norm ,you can sum it up as choker top 3

Nothing. If India bats first in knock outs INdia will win. As simple as that. Chasing in world cup matches is very hard even against ordinary teams.

[Suhaan]

2 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Nothing. If India bats first in knock outs INdia will win. As simple as that. Chasing in world cup matches is very hard even against ordinary teams.

Maybe partially true,but i have full faith on these 3 , specially Kohli ,he will choke batting first too and as master of chases he should have done that,that day

Edited December 29, 2019 by Suhaan

[ShoonyaSifar]

12 hours ago, putrevus said:

Yes, Australian series is far more important in terms of cricketing acheivement.

LOL in a WC year, NOTHING else counts more than the WC. You may try to spin it the way you want to.

 

Also, Australia's performance since Warner-Smith's return has shown the true worth of that series win by us. However, you (and the TM) can go on and on about how great the win was and how that win makes this team at par with WI of 80s and Aus of 2000s. 

[ShoonyaSifar]

BCCI Head Ganguly bursts the bubble of the Aus series win

 

They beat Australia in 2018. But I will still expect to win in South Africa and England," Ganguly told India Today. "And I think, they are going back to Australia next year. That's going to be a bigger challenge and I am sure with the standards that Virat [Kohli] sets for himself and the others, he will know at the back of his mind that the 2018 Australia team was not the best Australian team of this generation. And what he is going to face next year, which is not very far away, is going to be a different Australia."

 

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/28382491/full-strength-australia-2020-21-bigger-challenge-india-sourav-ganguly

 

Well done Dada for the honest plain speak. Hope this drills some sense into our bombastic coach and captain

Edited December 29, 2019 by ShoonyaSifar