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Why can't our stars produce (or even fluke) innings like Blackwood?


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Pandya was going to do it in the 1st test in Eng - was the last man out. Then won India a test in the series .... need to back players like him :dance:

 

PS also the 90 odd in SA when others caved in 

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1. Modern Indian batsmen don’t have the mindset or skill to dig in and play out the day. 
 

2. no financial incentive for player to skip IPL and play county before the Tour. Likewise no financial incentive for BCCI to start preparations for this tour with a month of acclimatisation by playing county teams. They would rather squeeze in a ODI series with SL to make more money 

 

3. No repercussions for ‘star batsmen’ for repeated overseas failure. They are more interested in sight seeing and shopping instead of practicing their socks off for a important tour.

 

4. Indian public quickly forgets SENA test thrashings when LOI starts.

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The issue with our "stars" could be that they are too stat focused. They play to get to their 50-100 and once they get there, they think the "goal" is achieved 

 

Recently, many of our best wins/performances have come from the likes of Sehwag (Pak and SL), Pujara (Eng and Aus), Laxman (SL), and Pandya (as mentioned earlier), who are not too stats focused

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40 minutes ago, Nikola said:

Can't be fluke cause they have never lost match chasing 200 or less in 4th innings. Tells me something how many chances we lost in last couple of years overseas with our superstars.

 

 

Not calling WI performances fluke, asking our player to fluke. 

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9 hours ago, cowboysfan said:

please,blackwood  is not a good player, he was so lucky this  inning. 

You make up your own luck. He tried to play assertively and luck went his way. You cannot denigrate his match winning innings by invoking luck. The so called no.1 batsman in all formats couldn't do that even once in numerous attempts.

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