Cricketics Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Selectors didn't select Gautam Gambhir for world cup. This guy was scoring some heavy runs and yet was being regularly ignored. It took a world cup early exit to realize that Gambhir should be there in our ODI squad. Link to comment
bunny Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Do you bother to read the interview or just go by other responses in the thread - or worse, just by the title? Read his comment: "I felt that the batting order was not right." How much does that statement tell you, honestly? Does it mean he's blaming that alone for the whole debacle? Can any intelligent creature extrapolate that from the quote? Also, remember that the "interview" was done by Times of India. I wouldn't be surprised if Sachin never said that. And when you make some 14000+ runs out of your career 17000 at the top of the order, and some ******* asks you to move down the order, its going to piss you off. Sachin's a nice enough guy that he never made that public during Chappell's reign. in b4 more Sachin-hate mongers. "It was a big tournament and we had a fantastic team. Everything looked well set but I felt our batting order was not right. This was one of the reasons (behind India's early ouster)" Maybe he never said it. But I am going by what's written in the article. It's a very stupid thing to say when he himself didn't score runs. Tomorrow, somebody can come and say "the 99 Aus tour debacle was the lowest point in their career. And some of the on-field strategies such as giving more overs to part-timers was one of the reasons". How would that sound? Why open a can of worms? Link to comment
graphic23 Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 "It was a big tournament and we had a fantastic team. Everything looked well set but I felt our batting order was not right. This was one of the reasons (behind India's early ouster)" Maybe he never said it. But I am going by what's written in the article. Ok... It's a very stupid thing to say when he himself didn't score runs. :WTF: :WTF: :WTF: Tomorrow, somebody can come and say "the 99 Aus tour debacle was the lowest point in their career. And some of the on-field strategies such as giving more overs to part-timers was one of the reasons". How would that sound? Why open a can of worms? Um, people have said that before, and its done nothing. In fact, it had come to a position where Sachin recalled all those criticisms in an interview recently (about 2 years ago, right after we came back from England, IIRC). Link to comment
vvvslaxman Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Tomorrow, somebody can come and say "the 99 Aus tour debacle was the lowest point in their career. And some of the on-field strategies such as giving more overs to part-timers was one of the reasons". How would that sound? Why open a can of worms? India lost to zimbabwe from a winning position. And ofcourse Sir Aggy decided to produce his best that day 10 overs 70 runs :--D Link to comment
bunny Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Ok... :WTF: :WTF: :WTF: Can you elaborate? Um, people have said that before, and its done nothing. In fact, it had come to a position where Sachin recalled all those criticisms in an interview recently (about 2 years ago, right after we came back from England, IIRC). It's different when one of the team members says that. Commentators, journalists are paid to criticize and create controversies. Link to comment
champ Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 oh here we go again .. crying over the past .. look to the future and make strategies to win next WC in a years time .. we were outplayed in last WC ..period ..move on .. Link to comment
graphic23 Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Can you elaborate? Sorry, I was just responding to your statements, one said "maybe he didn't say that." and immediately you were still criticizing him for "what a stupid thing to say." I guess I saw a little bit of contradiction there. It's different when one of the team members says that. Commentators, journalists are paid to criticize and create controversies. I dont know if you've heard/read this news, but when Tendulkar was made captain before (I think sometime in 1996), Azhar had openly commented in the media (or to other teammates) that Tendulkar would NOT succeed as a captain. Imagine hearing that - from a former captain, when you've been made captain at a young age of 23 or 24 years. And which team mate did Tendulkar openly criticize in his alleged comment? Link to comment
bunny Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Sorry, I was just responding to your statements, one said "maybe he didn't say that." and immediately you were still criticizing him for "what a stupid thing to say." I guess I saw a little bit of contradiction there. I dont know if you've heard/read this news, but when Tendulkar was made captain before (I think sometime in 1996), Azhar had openly commented in the media (or to other teammates) that Tendulkar would NOT succeed as a captain. Imagine hearing that - from a former captain, when you've been made captain at a young age of 23 or 24 years. And which team mate did Tendulkar openly criticize in his alleged comment? If he didnt say that then of course I take back my comments. I didnt know that Times is unreliable. If I were the BCCI, I'd have suspended Azhar for a series or so for saying that. That's obviously an even worse thing to say. I never said SRT criticized any team mate. I am saying one of the team members shouldn't be putting blame on some strategy or such in the media. Discuss it with the captain/coach or maybe even the selectors/board if you have a problem with the coach. One of the primary reasons Chappell was removed was because he couldn't keep quiet. Dont start the war of words again. Let bygones be bygones. Link to comment
yoda Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 even if we reversed the order we should be beating teams like the bangles. Link to comment
saneindian Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Worst mistake was playing two home series against WI and SL on absolute pata wickets as the preparation for world cup. We knew the pitches in WI were going to be low and slow and therefore we should have played on similar kind of wickets after the disastrous tour of SA. Having said that, losing to BD was unacceptable and we surely didnt deserve to go through after that loss. Link to comment
bharat297 Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Talk about exaggerating the headline. He just said that it was one of the reasons they didn't make it through. Link to comment
Lord Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 I Saw The Interview.he Was Asked The Reason For Exit N He Said Batting Order Was One Of The Problems In His View.nothing Wrong In That Link to comment
Temujin Khaghan Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Tendulkar not opening = clear and blatantly obvious f-ck up. ++ remember the 194* declaration by dravid in pakistan. It takes a lot of self-control to talk like that in the press meet afterwards. Anybody else might have been totally pissed off. Link to comment
King Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Too late to ponder about 2007, need to move on. Let's see if they can get it right the next time around. Link to comment
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