From Sehwag in Mohali 2011 to Kela in Adelaide 2022

[Number]

Year 2011.

All important World Cup SF at home. 

Biggest game in Indian Cricket history, much at stakes.

Umar Gul, one of the best bowlers in the world in rampaging form in the tournament. 

Mohali track, which helps seamers early on with some showers day before.

 

What Virender Sehwag does. He hits him for 5 fours in his first over and kills the game there itself.

 

11 years later, our opener is KL Rahul at Adelaide in a T20 world cup SF. Hits Stokes on wide short one first ball and then resorts back to tuk tuk.

 

Sums up the degradation of Indian Cricket.

 

Edited November 11, 2022 by Number

[Stan AF]

5 4s

 

Sorry to nitpick

[vvvslaxman]

Sehwag never realized his LOI potential. But he never backed away from a contest.  This was a flat pitch against average bowling attack. Stokes is more like 3rd change bowler. Should have picked like 20 runs in that over

[vvvslaxman]

Prithvi shaw probably would have made a 100 on this wicket. There was no real threat from any bowler. Pitch was flat

[Serpico]

Sehwag was an anomaly. Most Indian star batsmen wouldn't do it even in that era. We were lucky that viru inherently had that attitude 

[Number]

20 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Sehwag never realized his LOI potential. But he never backed away from a contest.  This was a flat pitch against average bowling attack. Stokes is more like 3rd change bowler. Should have picked like 20 runs in that over

 

Stokes is coming from a long injury and bowling dibbly dobly. With no fielder outside ring, they should have gone after him like mad dogs. But neither these guys had confidence nor any form to middle. Fatso Rohit couldn't time a single shot throughout the tournament.

[Lone Wolf]

This was the most lallu panju LOI attack we had to face in KO's in a long long time... 

Stokes bowling first over lol...  It can't be more bad than this. 

[Number]

33 minutes ago, Stan AF said:

5 4s

 

Sorry to nitpick

 Thanks .. didn't remember 

[vvvslaxman]

1 minute ago, Lone Wolf said:

This was the most lallu panju LOI attack we had to face in KO's in a long long time... 

Stokes bowling first over lol...  It can't be more bad than this. 

 

Heck even my eyes lit up seeing him bowling first over. They have faced stokes so many times in IPl , international. 

[Number]

18 minutes ago, Serpico said:

Sehwag was an anomaly. Most Indian star batsmen wouldn't do it even in that era. We were lucky that viru inherently had that attitude 

 

Viru started all our innings in that world cup with a 4 till group matches.

Against SA, Sachin sort of warned him that don't try your stunt of first ball 4 against Dale Steyn, he is a very good bowler. Sehwag just said "nah paaji, maarunga to choka hi isko bhi" (I am gonna hit him for 4) and did exactly that.

Edited November 11, 2022 by Number

[Lord]

that Sehwag inning v Pak is very underrated

 

This is the effect of a quick start and why I ask for someone like Shaw.Even a cameo is enough

[Lord]

12 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

This was the most lallu panju LOI attack we had to face in KO's in a long long time... 

Stokes bowling first over lol...  It can't be more bad than this. 

 

still remember Braithwaite four sixes. Our guys played him like he was bowling like Steyn

[vvvslaxman]

2 minutes ago, Lord said:

 

still remember Braithwaite four sixes. Our guys played him like he was bowling like Steyn

 

SKY should have opened.

[Lord]

1 minute ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

SKY should have opened.

nah. He can't cover for everyone's timid mindset

[vvvslaxman]

1 minute ago, Lord said:

nah. He can't cover for everyone's timid mindset

 

In hindsight if they knew Stokes would open SKY could have set the tone right at the start with just 2 fielders outside the circle. By the time sky came in field was already well spread

[Laaloo]

Don’t forget kela loser against afridi who coming off a big layoff in the first game this World Cup. This guy is a loser. 

[Lord]

1 minute ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

In hindsight if they knew Stokes would open SKY could have set the tone right at the start with just 2 fielders outside the circle. By the time sky came in field was already well spread

We could have tried Pant. SKY was fine where he was

[Gollum]

22 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

This was the most lallu panju LOI attack we had to face in KO's in a long long time... 

Stokes bowling first over lol...  It can't be more bad than this. 

Shudder to think what we would have done against their first choice attack: Archer, Topley,  Wood. 

 

10/3 in PP as per Rohit's original plan of wanting MO to get practice for those kind of situations?

 

Yesterday England were without Topley, Archer, Wood, Bairstow, Roy, Malan and we still shat the bed, un*ingbelievable. All the excuses we make for our ICC KO losses and here look at this English side shrugging off so many losses (big players that too), getting the job done. Champion mentality, respect.

[Lord]

23 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Shudder to think what we would have done against their first choice attack: Archer, Topley,  Wood. 

 

10/3 in PP as per Rohit's original plan of wanting MO to get practice for those kind of situations?

 

Yesterday England were without Topley, Archer, Wood, Bairstow, Roy, Malan and we still shat the bed, un*ingbelievable. All the excuses we make for our ICC KO losses and here look at this English side shrugging off so many losses (big players that too), getting the job done. Champion mentality, respect.

They couldn't play Livingstone, you are talking about Archer

[Lone Wolf]

19 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Shudder to think what we would have done against their first choice attack: Archer, Topley,  Wood. 

 

10/3 in PP as per Rohit's original plan of wanting MO to get practice for those kind of situations?

 

Yesterday England were without Topley, Archer, Wood, Bairstow, Roy, Malan and we still shat the bed, un*ingbelievable. All the excuses we make for our ICC KO losses and here look at this English side shrugging off so many losses (big players that too), getting the job done. Champion mentality, respect.

Nasser,  Atherton were all worried about their pace attack in sky preview.  They were trying to find some solace in freakin Sam Curran's death bowling who we all know gets thumped badly by Indian domestic tullas In IPl easily. 

But guess losing vs Pak in Final was going to be  lot more stressful & their media houses & bigot ex players would have sprayed lot of anti India/hindu venom...  And ISPR would use propaganda against Arshdeep or Shami to intice more hate so in a way we dodged a bullet.