There is no excuse for KL & RAT going 20 overs without scoring a boundary after being 80/2 after 10

[sage]

No other team would bat like this. How pathetic and weak and cocooned mentality must one have.

[Lord]

lol yes Rohit is awesome in his captaincy.

[sage]

Rohit gave a platform and these people squandered it. You don't shut down shop at only 2 down. There is no justification for KL going at 50 SR

[cricketfan28]

agree should have got  out like gill.

[IndianRenegade]

Both of them were assigned the anchor role 

[Vickydev]

We have a structural problem. We just don't have batting depth, can't blame them entirely. Australia saw that weakness and kept chipping away at it. 

 

Look what Jadeja and co did when they had all the overs to bat. Our LOI sides will forever suffer until we address that

[sage]

12 minutes ago, cricketfan28 said:

agree should have got  out like gill.

Our #3 and #5 are that bad that its either go at 3.5 RPO or get out immediately? What rubbish

[Texan]

Classic choking syndrome

[Sooda]

Agree to an extent but equally we have batting depth issues and it was clearly a difficult two pitch to bat on

[Trichromatic]

How can a batsman in such peak form scoring 700+ in WC get stuck like this?

 

I can understand if he was dismissed early. But not getting out, not scoring at peak form of your career!

[SandeepMotta]

It was a tricky pitch. If not for the dew India would have won.

[CG]

Indian batsman are worse in slow pit he's except Rohit and some genius used a second hand pitch

[Number]

The pitch played a bit differently in 2nd innings. Can not have Aus innings as a reference point. 

We were in the game till Jadeja wicket, after that those massive reverse swing from Starc and Hazlewood killed us. 

[singhvivek141]

1 hour ago, sage said:

No other team would bat like this. How pathetic and weak and cocooned mentality must one have.

There is an excuse, we didn't have batting depth.

 

Secondly, both KL & Kohli take time to start scoring. Kohli got out just after 50 post which he usually accelerate but he was anyway around his normal SR, it was mostly KL who got stuck and usually he will not accelerate till he has no option left, so he kept on eating balls. Then Jadeja & SKY added more salt to the wounds by scoring 9(22) & 18(29).

 

Not to mention Australia easily saved 30-40 runs courtesy of their fielding. Else we would have scored 270-280 here.

[Bigg Brother]

107 balls and 1 boundary is inexcusable. Even in test matches Pujara does better than this

[RJman]

I will never forget Rohit's unnecessary, brainfart of a shot against Maxwell, after already hitting a 6 and a 4. This was the day he should have batted responsibly, batted deeply etc.  Following the same template game after game cost this team dearly. Australia, saw, learnt and came with a solid plan. INdia should have changed  their tactics ... Rohit should have batted till the end instead of batting like headless chicken...

 

ahhhhhhhhhhh, No point talking about this. The greatest chance to win a WOrld Cup is gone.

 

Now I am sure it's Virat. As long as he is in the team, this team will win nothing. NOTHING! The entire focus will be on his individual achievements. We breached Gabba because he left the team. As long as he is there... we will win only ghantas.

 

That is his destiny and that is our country's destiny. Dont expect any ICC/WOrld Title as long as the GOAT batter plays for INDIA.

 

My views will change for sure when I cool down.......

 

Why did KL and Virat play slow? Becasue of useless Surya batting at No.6. If he was such a useless trash on such a pitch, and the team management knew, why did they keep persisting with this dead body of a batsman. Brainless tart didnt attack the spinner, instead kept giving strike to tailenders. 360 degree my foot, he can only hit behind the wicket, even when fielders are stationed there... Brainless feggg!

 

FInally whoever ordered and prepared this pitch should be flogged in borad daylight.

 

I'm out for the day...

 

Goodnight and Godbless. 

[Cricketics]

We were 148-3, in 28th over when Kohli got out. That was a pretty decent RR. Things got bad after Kohli got out and not before. KL I though lt batted too slow with Kohli and when Kohli went, he lost the plot even further.

 

 

 

[Texan]

They went to batting in first gear and even got out because of this defensive mentality. If you look at Kohli's wicket, he was circumspect in the way he played that ball. His movement was not precise. The ball was not threatening at all and he could have just easily glided it to third man. But because of this ultra defensive mentality he tried to half block, half push for a single and ultimately got out.

[adi B]

Pitch was really sticky and slow in the first Innings .

We laughed at Pakistan but they were also stuck on this pitch batting first ,same for England Against Nz in the WC opener .

Tough luck really .

The England Nzl match was an eye opener for everyone 

[Iconoclast]

When your bottom 6 consist of SKY, Jadeja and 4 bowlers ...

 

Let's face it your team balance was off.