India can't be consider as Number 1 .......

[Ultimate_Game]

another 2-3 weeks i say but not beyond that.Thats why i said india dont deserve to be a number one team like WI and AUS as it always look to scrap through.

Let the series get over before you start shouting from the rooftops.

[julianlev]

come to SA we're always up for a challenge!

[Alchemist]

come to SA we're always up for a challenge!

Challenge of choking ? :giggle:

[ahilya]

come to SA we're always up for a challenge!

You have to challenge next number one with in next 2-3 week.india is done with it tryst with glory of being number 1.

[ahilya]

Let the series get over before you start shouting from the rooftops.

After it serires i'm afraid that india will directly will be relegated to the 3rd place behind SA.

[julianlev]

Challenge of choking ? :giggle:

didn't happen last time you were here come on, Kallis wants another 200

[ahilya]

Cross-posting following article from the other thread it deserve a better place here.

James Lawton: Arrogant tourists' refusal to embrace technology was nothing short of sabotage Saturday, 23 July 2011 If India had been an omelette rather than the world's No 1 cricket nation – at least for a few more weeks(thats wat i mentioned just 2-3 posts above) – they would surely have been sent straight back to the kitchen in the first desultory, rain-smeared action of the 2,000th Test match at Lord's. Critically undercooked in the field and at the bowling crease, they were so much less than what they might have been. However, their greatest disservice to the game they have so often adorned so brilliantly came before their captain M S Dhoni won the toss and promptly backed away from the challenge of pitting such batting titans as Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and V V S Laxman against the swing potential of Jimmy Anderson and Co. Right or wrong, Dhoni made a strategic decision. What India did, at the insistent advocacy of their captain, when arguing successfully against lbw verdicts under the Decision Review System, was nothing less than sabotage. It would have been bad enough if Dhoni's team had not so recently hastened the retirement of experienced Australian umpire Daryl Harper with a distasteful, though unfortunately not unprecedented, attack on official credibility following some debatable decisions in a Test match against the West Indians. That was a bullying performance which, ironically enough, perfectly illustrated the most important benefit of cricket's wider willingness to embrace technology. The Indians say that the predictive capacity of Hawk-Eye is less than infallible and, scientifically and practically, they may have a point. But then when you consider the weight of probabilities – and the certainty that without DRS cricket will inevitably see the return of the vice that so routinely dragged it into the sports gutter – the overwhelming reaction must be anger. Anger that a team which in the past has inflicted some of the most outrageous pressure on match officials – notably when Jamaica's Steve Bucknor was forced out of the 2008 series in Australia following the controversy of Harbhajan Singh's alleged racist remark to Andrew Symonds – has derailed a system which, while less than completely perfect, wiped away at the flick of a button some of cricket's worst ills. It was certainly one small blessing that, when Zaheer Khan was given the lbw against Alastair Cook on the first day at Lord's, it was a finely calculated but correct decision. Otherwise cue pressure on match officials, charges of bias and lament that if Hawk-Eye has a small margin of error in it, it is infinitely less than that of even the most accomplished and nerveless umpires. Before technology, there was a contagion of cheap and relentlessly cynical appealing. It was the open sore of cricket, the permanent assault on its old claim to be a game of manners and ultimate sportsmanship. That may always have been a myth, and certainly the great W G Grace did his best to dismantle it, but there has been no questions about the uplifting consequences of DRS. The new, swift arbitration succeeded in all but a dismissal of the claim that inevitably it undermined the authority of match officials. But what kind of authority is it that can be routinely exposed by the television camera? Bucknor and Harper, even they might agree, were capable of mistakes – huge, match-changing ones – and would they and their supporters really argue that some notional dignity is more important than the need to get the big decisions right as often as possible? Beyond this basic argument is the disturbing impression of the power of Indian cricket to inflict its will on every issue, every situation. If Dhoni had been speaking of an errant hotel porter in the West Indies instead of an umpire he might have been criticised for overweening arrogance. Dhoni said: "If the correct decisions had been made the game would have finished much earlier and I would have been in the hotel by now." Maybe he would have had someone running his bath, which at least would have given him a little more undisturbed time to consider the truth that he had just happened to overlook. The all-conquering Indians had been delayed by what they believed to be human error:haha: – the problem which DRS has so largely, so brilliantly, overcome. The Indian board claims that it has always "expressed a willingness to embrace technology for the good of the game". Yet no one is in doubt that from its rupee-pile of influence it set the ground rules for the current series. In all the debate over the future of Test cricket, whether it has the ability to retain the interest, even the love, of a majority of cricket fans, there should be one fundamental position. It is that every decision should be about shaping the future of a living, endlessly engaging force, rather than preserving some of the worst of its past. In the latter category there is doubt about the malevolent role of those who, without a shred of conscience, have sought to apply maximum pressure to the men in the white coats. For a little while such perversion of working justice was not merely checked but put into reverse. You could see it in the dwindling of a bowler's belief that he had the right to pursue every faint possibility that an umpire might be proved wrong. You could see it in the pensive expressions of captains anxious to hang on to their ability to challenge those decisions which were plainly outrageous. Whatever the Indians achieve in the next few days, nothing could exceed the value of a touch of humility – and competitive decency – in this matter so crucial to the game which in so many ways they have superbly enhanced. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/james-lawton-arrogant-tourists-refusal-to-embrace-technology-was-nothing-short-of-sabotage-2318950.html

[Pagalpanti]

Cross-posting following article from the other thread it deserve a better place here. James Lawton: Arrogant tourists' refusal to embrace technology was nothing short of sabotage

[Alchemist]

didn't happen last time you were here come on, Kallis wants another 200

Happened when it mattered the most .

[Ultimate_Game]

After it serires i'm afraid that india will directly will be relegated to the 3rd place behind SA.

Yeah I'm sure. And if you had your say you would take India's World Cup trophy as well and hand it over to SA :haha: At the end of the day anyone who wants to be ranked #1 have to get past India. I haven't seen anyone do that yet.

[Texy]

abhi se shuru ho gaye rona dhona.... the series is far from over!

[Karan114]

didn't happen last time you were here come on, Kallis wants another 200

Your team has won just a single Test series in two years (against lowly WI) and your most recent performance was yet another choke in a World Cup so you have nothing to get cocky about, buddy.

[julianlev]

Your team has won just a single Test series in two years (against lowly WI) and your most recent performance was yet another choke in a World Cup so you have nothing to get cocky about' date=' buddy.[/quote'] the same world cup where we knocked over nine members of your vaunted batting lineup for 29 runs? Seriously though, I want to see our new captain in action, and after the Aussies and Sril Lanka I would fancy another go at the no 1 team

[Karan114]

the same world cup where we knocked over nine members of your vaunted batting lineup for 29 runs? Seriously though, I want to see our new captain in action, and after the Aussies and Sril Lanka I would fancy another go at the no 1 team

:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: Are you seriously going to gloat about the World Cup that we WON? Sheesh. Who the hell gives a **** about a group game. We won the tournament, your team CHOKED as it always does.

[Sehwag1830]

the same world cup where we knocked over nine members of your vaunted batting lineup for 29 runs? Seriously though, I want to see our new captain in action, and after the Aussies and Sril Lanka I would fancy another go at the no 1 team

Yes the same World Cup which we won. And captaincy is an execuse. SA is a choking machine. When will you win a knockout match in World Cup ?:haha:

[julianlev]

:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: Are you seriously going to gloat about the World Cup that we WON? Sheesh. Who the hell gives a **** about a group game. We won the tournament, your team CHOKED as it always does.

It may have been just a group game, but it was the only game which you lost and in pretty spectacular form too besides, our coach is with us now, while your first performances under the Aussie have not been too spectacular

[Karan114]

South Africa's Test series results since 2009: - lost to Aus at home - drew with England at home - drew with India away - beat West Indies away - drew with Pak in UAE - drew with India at home One series win in 2.5 years, and that too against that *****y West Indian team, and you have the cheek to talk about the no.1 team?

[julianlev]

Yes the same World Cup which we won. And captaincy is an execuse. SA is a choking machine. When will you win a knockout match in World Cup ?:haha:

really? It wasn't an excuse when everyone here was going after Smith during the cup then it mattered and now it doesn't? we'll see, I'll talk with you after the Aussie tour

[Karan114]

It may have been just a group game, but it was the only game which you lost and in pretty spectacular form too besides, our coach is with us now, while your first performances under the Aussie have not been too spectacular

Duncan Fletcher is an Aussie? Do you even know what the hell you are talking about? Again, I repeat, no one gives a **** about group games in World Cups. How many times have your chokers gone unbeaten through a group stage in a World Cup before crumbling under the slightest hint of pressure? I know what people of your sorts mentality is - India are having a bad game, so come in and start gloating. But your South African team's results have been pretty damn ordinary of late so it ain't gonna work, buddy.

[julianlev]

South Africa's Test series results since 2009: - lost to Aus at home - drew with England at home - drew with India away - beat West Indies away - drew with Pak in UAE - drew with India at home One series win in 2.5 years, and that too against that *****y West Indian team, and you have the cheek to talk about the no.1 team?

forgive my ignorance, but I believe that your no.1 team has yet to win a test series here when you manage that, I'll call you the no. 1