rahuld9 Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Why was Dhoni bowling at tour match? Come on India, the point of a tour match is to get vital practice for the actual test. If Dhoni is not captaining, surely he just concentrate on his keeping in the field!!! And ok even if he doesn't want to keep or whatever, let Mishra get as many overs us belt as possible! Link to comment
NareshK Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 One win and things will be back to normal. :isalute: This is the natural reaction from fans and media every time India loses a couple of games. The same thing happened during WC after they lost to South Africa. :--D Its going to be tough to come back in this series because the morale will be down after losing 2 tests and the other team will be on a super high but this team can do it if nobody else can.:two_thumbs_up: Link to comment
Cricket Tragic Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Because he is our 4th seamer. :isalute: Link to comment
rahuld9 Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Because he is our 4th seamer. :isalute: lol no gambhir is Link to comment
Cricket Tragic Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 It's official... Zaheer Khan will miss the rest of the series. Link to comment
Cricket Tragic Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Gambhir is a leg spinner. Link to comment
Dhoni_fan Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 We have to bat first we havent all series and have been behind the eight ball as a result although that shouldnt have been the case at TB but we collapsed! Link to comment
Pagalpanti Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Kohli can be if he plays. Link to comment
WC2011INDIA Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 It's official... Zaheer Khan will miss the rest of the series. HAHAHA ****ing Zak. Your words before the tournament are coming back to haunt you. Oh and btw it is ramadan period. I am sure Zak is fasting. There was no way, he was going to participate in the future tests. Link to comment
Guest Gunner Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Zaheer ruled out of series ESPNcricinfo staff August 7, 2011 Zaheer Khan pulled up midway through his 14th over at Lord's © Getty Images Zaheer Khan, the India fast bowler, has been ruled out of the remainder of the series against England and faces a 14-16 week period of rehabilitation. He will return to India and will be replaced by RP Singh in the squad. Zaheer picked up a hamstring injury during the first Test at Lord's, but the BCCI has now said he not only has a recurring hamstring problem but also a right ankle impingement that will require surgery. Zaheer's problems began on the very first day of the series, when he pulled up midway through his 14th over. The team management surprisingly said Zaheer may be ready to bowl by the second innings of the first Test, but he was missing not just then but also from the second Test at Trent Bridge. There were expectations he would return for the Edgbaston Test but he only got through three overs in the Indians' warm-up match in Northampton, and has now been pulled out of the squad. Since the first Test, Zaheer had been through light training sessions, and there had been indications from the India camp that he would take part at some stage in the series, which only grew stronger when he was named in the side for the tour game against Northamptonshire. However, he left the field after bowling just three overs. India had also named Zaheer in the squad for the limited-over matches in England, but he will miss those as well, with RP Singh taking his place. RP Singh has not played for India since 2009, with his last Test coming during India's home series against South Africa in 2008. India have now lost three players from their original squad; Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh were withdrawn from the squad after sustaining a stomach and finger injury respectively during the Trent Bridge Test. Zaheer's injury though has been the biggest setback for the visitors. Even as he was hobbling off at Lord's predictions for the series started to swing dramatically in England's favour. His absence from the next two Tests leaves India with an inexperienced bowling attack, with the 22-year-old Ishant Sharma the most capped of all the bowlers left in the Test squad. More to follow ... And thus ends the career of Zaheer Khan.... Link to comment
WC2011INDIA Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 And thus ends the career of Zaheer Khan.... and thereby ending India's reign as #1 test team in the world. Link to comment
WC2011INDIA Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Pull your pants down' date=' bend over and let the POMS ram it in![/quote'] :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::cantstop:: Link to comment
Guest Gunner Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Where would you start? Zaheer Khan? Yes, ZAK is done. I will also let go RSD and SRT at the end of the Oz tour. Keep Laxman for another 18 months and let some of the youngsters play around him, Sehwag and Gambhir. I also recommend dropping Harby for six months so that he can regain his skills. The core of our bowling needs to be Ishant and Sreesanth. The core of our batting has to be Sehwag/Gambhir/Laxman. I would say this is the beginning of the process of rebuilding. Link to comment
Guest Gunner Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 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. You are looking at it the wrong way. I am not at all concerned by the outcome of the series, I am more concerned by the key issues this series has highlighted. The team is ageing and unfit in general. The younger players are being shielded too much by old superstars, which means that when they leave (not very long to go since all of them are 37-38) the gap will be too difficult to fill with youngsters who have no test match experience. I have watched test cricket long enough to know the beginning of a decline for a great team. It has certainly started for India. England are rightly taking over the mantle as the best test team in the world. But if we really want to fight back and get back the No.1 position, we have to rebuild. We can't count on players whose career is at an end. In the 80s Australia went through 5 years of pain to rebuild a team which took them to the top of the world for 15 years. We are standing at the same crossroads. They identified a core of 5-6 top guys in Australia and stuck with them earnestly, we need to do the same. Link to comment
Guest Gunner Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 One win and things will be back to normal. :isalute: This is the natural reaction from fans and media every time India loses a couple of games. The same thing happened during WC after they lost to South Africa. :--D Its going to be tough to come back in this series because the morale will be down after losing 2 tests and the other team will be on a super high but this team can do it if nobody else can.:two_thumbs_up: You are having a very short term view, I am talking about a much bigger picture. Link to comment
NareshK Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 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. The team which won the WC are pretty much all there. All the problems India is facing now have been there since long. We have relied too much on Zak and Bhajji over the years. Its now becoming apparent as one is injured and other is completely out of form. The batting in tests will remain a concern as Sachin, Dravid, VVS will soon retire. Others need to step up in bouncy, seaming conditions. Bowling will improve with experience. Link to comment
Crookbond Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 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. :--D Link to comment
Sidhoni Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 ++. jitne doodh-badam khaa sakta hai khaa le tab tak... :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: Link to comment
Sidhoni Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Cheer :cheer: :cheer: Thats all we can do :cheer: :cheer: :cheerleader: Link to comment
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