India v West Indies at Kolkata : News, views, opinions and discussions

[carnish]

be fair here our trundlers did brilliantly through out the U.A.E series...

what brilliantly ... they could only once bowl the srilankans out twice and SRL are a batting side pretty low on confidence with both mahela and dilshan terribly out of form... and only sanga being the guy with some form. I expected better from ajmal and gul... dissapointed

[achilles]

i guess he is comfortable with his role....not many can do that... :two_thumbs_up:

No one could have played the way he has and his humility and dignity is simply outstanding.

[Clarke]

Haven't read the article but being defensive is better than collapsing like a pack of cards. That's definitely some improvement in my book.

[singhprakash72]

Hope all the folks who are singing his praise will continue doing it even if he fails in few innings (say in Australia )...the harsh truth about Indian batting is SRT, VVS & RD are well into late 30s...Their replacement whoever those are (Pujara, Kohli,Rohit,Jadeja,Raina,Yuvraj etc) need to be inducted sooner but the problem is there is only one slot open after the big 3 take the middle order. This puts too much pressure on the guy being tried and it ends being a revolving chair game....and I bet our selectors don't have vision to fix this problem, they still feel the big 3 are about 5-7 yrs from retirement. WI series would have been ideal platform to try new blood with experience but NO, selectors want accolades for whipping a 3rd rated WI team to hide the gapping holes in present Indian side.

[Magneto]

Observations from Eden - Days 1 and 2 1) The tickets available at the counter are priced at Rs.100, 200 and 300 2) When I walked in at 9:25 (overlooking the fact that the match will start at 9.00 since it's Kolkata - though, according to the tickets the match should start at 9:30), there were about 3000 people in the stadium. It gradually grew to perhaps 20000 later. Seeing an almost empty Eden is quite a sight. 3) Spontaneous celebrations broke out when Gambhir got out (predictably). Gambhir didn't like that possibly :-) 4) After Edwards had a face-off with Sachin, the crowd gave Edwards quite a mouthful when he was fielding at deep square leg. 5) The crowd favourite of Kolkata is Bishoo, simply because Bishoo is one of the most popular Bengali pet names (short form of 'Vishwanath' or Vishwajeet'). Every 3rd household has someone named 'Bishoo'. The crowd kept screaming 'Aiii Bishooo' whenever Bishoo would be fielding near the boundary, creating hilarious scenes. Bishoo must be wondering what has he done to be heckled so much. I guess the crowd was missing 'Rampaul' too - since both the names of Bishoo and Ram Pal sound like two Bengali cricketers. 6) The crowd gave Dravid a standing ovation when it was flashed that Dravid has scored 951 runs to become this years' highest scorer till now. 7) After tea, when the game was going along in a sleepy manner, one desperate gentleman screamed 'Orey Maar Reeeeeeeee'. The voice reverberated all around the stadium, and such was the desperation, that the crowd spontaneously clapped for the man for a minute. 8) Dark clouds hovered around the stadium 45 minutes after tea, but disappeared soon in thin air after they (possibly) saw Laxman nearing his half-century and Dravid nearing his century. 9) Whenever Virat Kohli was seen in the stadium, the crowd went crazy after him. (Found that very surprising) 10) After the game was over, Dhoni came out to practise some baseball-style hits. 11) After the game, a six-old child started crying saying she wants Sachin's autograph. Her mother found it impossible to explain to her that it is not possible to get Sachin's autograph like that. The kid almost refused to leave the stadium without Sachin's autograph, and the mother got all the more helpless.

[punjabi_khota]

All that is good but I hope this time you did not have to show your identity card Mr. Ganguly.

[ganeshran]

Nice post. :two_thumbs_up:

[Magneto]

ROTFL @ pk. I went in disguise this time ;-) Thanks @ganeshran :-)

[singhprakash72]

The tittle should be "When will India finally gets past 300 against a top tier team "...which we haven't yet !

[saneindian]

Hope all the folks who are singing his praise will continue doing it even if he fails in few innings (say in Australia )...the harsh truth about Indian batting is SRT, VVS & RD are well into late 30s...Their replacement whoever those are (Pujara, Kohli,Rohit,Jadeja,Raina,Yuvraj etc) need to be inducted sooner but the problem is there is only one slot open after the big 3 take the middle order. This puts too much pressure on the guy being tried and it ends being a revolving chair game....and I bet our selectors don't have vision to fix this problem, they still feel the big 3 are about 5-7 yrs from retirement. WI series would have been ideal platform to try new blood with experience but NO, selectors want accolades for whipping a 3rd rated WI team to hide the gapping holes in present Indian side.

With the propsects of a test championships in 2013 over now, there is every likelihood that VVS would reitre post the Aus tour.

[Magneto]

Your guess is as good as mine! ;-)

[ganeshran]

All that is good but I hope this time you did not have to show your identity card Mr. Ganguly.

:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

[div]

3) Spontaneous celebrations broke out when Gambhir got out (predictably). Gambhir didn't like that possibly :-)

:WTF:

[punjabi_khota]

:WTF:

arrival of God. :giggle:

[Magneto]

Haha. Gambhir was delaying God's arrival. Now since God is gone, all hopes lay for the second innings. In fact, people in the ground were hoping that India does not score too many runs and take a massive lead. Even I am hoping the same. Laxman can score a century and get out tomorrow, and Yuvi can make a 50. The rest should not score more than 10 runs. And WI should at least score 350-375.

[div]

arrival of God. :giggle:

I thought they dont like Gambhir.Dada for captaincy :winky:

[Pagalpanti]

:hatsoff:

[Magneto]

That was not Gambhir's fault. That was G.One's fault. ;-)

[ludhianvi]

I think Dravid has hit four five centuries after turning 38 and seven eight after turning 37. Brilliant. Dispels the myth about a prior discussion here regarding batsmen unable to bat after 37/38. Super duper :yay:

[akshayxyz]

Was there crowd!!! - were there ghosts that were not visible on TV, it looked all empty.