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Edgbaston test : Day by day prediction and discussion

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Edgbaston test : Day by day prediction and discussion  

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    • Ishanth Sharma
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Laaloo Grand Master

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Nah' date=' this series is gone. Our boys seem to be just going through the motions right now. But don't worry, as home track bullys we will pummel the WI later on this year and everything will be back to normal until we get ass-raped in Oz again.[/quote'] We will pummel the mighty WI 1-0 B->
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I can't think of another way to title the shambles unfolding in front of us. This is the weakest and so far out of ideas I have seen Indian cricket in for a very long time. The last time a tour unfolded like this must have been over 15 years ago. Every decision made by the selection committee and team management reflects fear, fatigue and sheer lack of mental strength. India has been mentally disintegrated, there is no other way to put this. We have a team out there in England and we need to just field the best XI and play as well as we can instead of thinking about who we should/could have had. The ODI selections shouldn't taint the ongoing test series and I hope the team management ignores it for the time being. This series can still be salvaged with half the tests to be played but only if we regain confidence and clarity of thought. I hope we will pull ourselves together instead of behaving like 12 year old school girls who just saw their first porn magazine.
Agree with you.If players are selected for ODIs based on test performance,then why wasnt rohit sharma selected for the WI tests after MoS in odis.
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Tapioca Newbie

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Or look at it this way' date=' 2007 world cup failure was a blessing in disguise for us. This might be the same too, board is too concerned with IPL and money issues right now, this might probably make them re-think about the schedule and make players accountable for their fitness.[/quote'] The real tragedy is that we don't even have a Greg Chappell now to blame for everything. We haven't faced such chaos since the Australian tour of 1999. There too it started with having a bunch of batsmen who couldn't bat in the circumstances - especially the two openers. Since then, except in SA 2001, we have had at least one good opener in the team for every overseas series. Between 2001-2011, we didn't have a single disastrous tour of the magnitude of these two tours, which may not be a coincidence
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koolkarts Newbie

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The plan was to play him in the 11 and only bowl 3 overs? :WTF:
I think it was only meant to be one opening spell probably. But as he was getting battered and bowled a few wides, he probably decided to take it easy rather than break his back against some county side, and just left the field after 3 overs.
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Guest Gunner

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Its the beginning of the end. Its clear now that this team's cycle now ended at the WC, it was not the start of a new era. Things may get much worse before they start to get better.
If we actually delay replacing the ageing players we are going to have years of pain. The best thing India can do now is to start retiring the old players and getting in the new ones to face the music. Yes we might lose for a couple of years but then things will certainly start looking up. Alas, the selection committee we have will never take these tough calls.
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If we actually delay replacing the ageing players we are going to have years of pain. The best thing India can do now is to start retiring the old players and getting in the new ones to face the music. Yes we might lose for a couple of years but then things will certainly start looking up. Alas' date=' the selection committee we have will never take these tough calls.[/quote'] Where would you start? Zaheer Khan?
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Mariyam Grand Master

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Why so much gloom? Me thinks we're blowing this out of proportion. Nothing hasn't drastically gone wrong here. The errors that were present earlier, mainly the same bunch of selectors won us the WC too. They got us to #1 at tests too. Their methods haven't changed drastically for this one series. Back then too they stuck with their favs ( read Harbhajan) and today they still do. Sure we've had a bad series. Sure we lost by humiliating margins. Sure that England are a much better test side. But an overhaul of the system for one lost series overlooking all previous successes is too much. Maybe the boys and us fans have been saturated by the amount of cricket over the last few months. I appeal for calm. Its team India we're talking about. Not a bunch hooligans from under JJ flyover.

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