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Lords test 2011 : Predictions and discussion

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saneindian Enthusiast

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Lol I watched the program on AajTak when kapil said this. His exact words were " lagta to hai ki mazak hai lekin jab aisi sthiti mein aapke paas kewal 3 bowlers hain to captain ko is tarah ke decisions lene padte hain" (It appears to be a joke, but when you are faced with such a situation, you are forced to take such decisions). About Zaheer he never said those words :facepalm: . All he said was "Zaheer Khan thore aur fit ho sakte the. Koi player itne bade match mein, is tarah se apni team ko beech mein nahi chorna chahega" (Zaheer could have been fitter. In such a huge test match, no bowlerswould like to put his team in trouble by going off the field and not bowling)

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Lurker Newbie

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By stretching your career for couple more years when you were a finished article' date=' what good you've done to test cricket other than mocking it Paaji?[/quote'] Probably by inspiring generation of youngsters including someone who show up on your profile for a change?? No need to get antsy anytime Dhoni, or modern Indian team for that matter, is criticized. They are big boys and can take care of themselves. With regards to Dhoni bowling on 2nd sure thats retarded, if you cant see it. He is the captain, picks his team and bowls in a Test match. He gets the credit when he picks the team right and the brickbats when he does not. Fair game there. Stop getting your whatever in a pinch simply because Kapil stated the obvious..and you should also check what exactly he said in the context by the way.
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And Kapil Dev ' date='lol can he tell us what Dhoni should have done to not mock test cricket.Very stupid comments TBH.[/quote'] I thought Dhoni should have bowled more today considering that he was doing good job and Bhajji was absolutely rubbish. Well, it's not good if wicket-keeper of the main team has to bowl. But if he can contribute when it's actually needed then what's wrong with it.
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yoda Newbie

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Lol I watched the program on AajTak when kapil said this. His exact words were " lagta to hai ki mazak hai lekin jab aisi sthiti mein aapke paas kewal 3 bowlers hain to captain ko is tarah ke decisions lene padte hain" (It appears to be a joke, but when you are faced with such a situation, you are forced to take such decisions). About Zaheer he never said those words :facepalm: . All he said was "Zaheer Khan thore aur fit ho sakte the. Koi player itne bade match mein, is tarah se apni team ko beech mein nahi chorna chahega" (Zaheer could have been fitter. In such a huge test match, no bowlerswould like to put his team in trouble by going off the field and not bowling)
If that's what he said, the words in OP is some poor translation.
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It's England v India, but not in a good way http://es.pn/rlLb6E

"East is east and west is west and ne'er the twain shall meet" Rudyard Kipling wrote, and certainly the first half of the opening lines of his ballad still tend to ring true. For in spite of what Thomas Friedman may say about the world being flat, and in spite of world economies bringing nations closer, I can't help help get the feeling that England and India, two dominant cricketing nations with bonds that go much deeper than cricket alone, are standing arrayed against each other. I fear that neither particularly wants to understand the other, and that cannot be right for our game. I sense that here in England that India is being looked at as an unprincipled bully. It need not be that way and it may not always be true either, but in the absence of an open dialogue that is how it is being represented in the media. And so it is on the DRS, on the issue of unhappy umpires - indeed on almost every aspect of the modern game. It doesn't help that India sometimes adopts this nouveau riche attitude of being loud and unaccommodating: my way or no other. I believe India had a very valid point on the DRS: that ball-tracking with normal-speed cameras is not much good, and that - as even the opinion of the head of Virtual Eye bore out - we might be better off without it. But India is never very keen to explain its stand, preferring instead to make its point of view known to the world through terse statements. England, for its part, often slips into tired clichés about India. To read some of the sports pages here would be to believe that an economic, and more appropriately a social, revolution never took place. To believe that India's emergence is largely because of western coaches, and that the toughness would never have come about without them, is to be lazy, and exposes an inability, or an unwillingness, to understand the new, globalised twenty-something Indian, and to understand that India's attitude on the field is but a direct illustration of the attitude of its young entrepreneurs and managers in industry. India is still someone that needs to be withstood, someone who has newly come upon riches and has nothing else to offer. Why, in a debate on the future of Test cricket, even the Times, a fine newspaper if there was one, did not feel the need to get an Asian point of view. And so there is far too much of this rather unpleasant us-and-them feeling. In some quarters in India we believe that it is our time to give it back to them, and that can be short-sighted and distinctly unfruitful. Having been treated rather rudely on my first tour here, I can understand that feeling, even if I can never accept it. While India bring substantial revenues to English cricket every four years, England showed their generosity by coming back to play Test matches in India after the terror attack in Mumbai in 2008. That was a great moment. It was one where bonds should have been strengthened, and indeed the Chennai Test is my favourite among the 99 the two sides have played so far, but I sense we have let it slip. England may seem unwilling to accept the present but India need to show a little more style and grace. Now in the undisputed home of Test cricket (there isn't a ticket available for any day of this series), two teams stand arrayed against each other, but the two countries should not miss the chance to understand each other better. England provides more opportunities to cricketers through its leagues and counties than anyone else, and there is genuine love for the game here. India is the new market but needs to move from being the merchant to turning statesman, to looking at the world rather than at a region. Irrespective of which way the series goes, this is an opportunity we cannot miss. For eventually we are bound together by a great game; it may no longer always be noble but it retains many great virtues. Maybe Kipling is right, for the ballad continues: But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth!
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