An Open Letter from Indian Cricket Fans to Indian Team

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Indian bowling is not exactly a penetrative bowling attack. Umesh is raw. Ishant was supposed to back up Zak who is just back from injury. But Ishant's failure as a bowler has really hurt India. Ashwin didn't do well. But that i expected all the way. Not a single offie has done well there in the last 10 or 12 years. Swann averages 40 there. Possibly the best offie. India's traditional strength has been piling up runs and let the bowlers take their own time to pick up wickets with scoreboard pressure. I have never seen an Indian side that will run through a side consistently. They do occasionally with an inspired bowling performance. But for that to happen consistently all 4 bowlers have to be reasonably penetrative to build pressure backed up by good fielding. We are nowhere close to having such an unit. It will take long time before building such a bowling unit. Frankly i have no hope in the near future.

No bowling attack will be able to defend 200 or less than 200 regularly,Every Good team has contributions from bowler and batsman,But Our batsman have let us down,If this bowling attack got 350 they would be very effective .

[Lord]

No bowling attack will be able to defend 200 or less than 200 regularly' date='Every Good team has contributions from bowler and batsman,But Our batsman have let us down,If this bowling attack got 350 they would be very effective .[/quote'] they werent defending anything today,so why this magnificent performance?

[vvvslaxman]

No bowling attack will be able to defend 200 or less than 200 regularly' date='Every Good team has contribuitons from bowler and batsman,But Our batsman have let us down,If this bowling attack got 350 they would be very effective .[/quote'] Yes. No bowling attack will be able to defend 200 every time.But no bowling attack will concede huge partnerships to out of form batsmen like Hussey, Punter regularly. Fact is we suck in both departments. But we are okay with bowling because we have made piece with the fact our bowling is an average unit. We are essentially a team that depends on run machines.

[Old guy]

No bowling attack will be able to defend 200 or less than 200 regularly' date='Every Good team has contribuitons from bowler and batsman,But Our batsman have let us down,If this bowling attack got 350 they would be very effective .[/quote'] agree and u dont understand for young guys like yadav,ashwin its difficult to defent 200 but if its 400 i can promise u they will bowl much better and ashwin would flight it and get wickets and also yadav wont think abt keeping it tight and then losing his rhythm when u have young attack runs are really important

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they werent defending anything today' date='so why this magnificent performance?[/quote'] Coz it's a flat track and the series is gone anyways. This is how we should have batted at Sydney after losing early wkts. Blaming the bowlers for Eng and Aus fiasco is a sick joke. Sure, our bowlers haven't exactly covered themselves in glory but bowling never was our strong suit. The biggest culprits and who should be taking lion's share of the blame is our batsmen. They looked like schoolboys in Eng and Aus and deserve all the blame they get, including Sachin "in great touch" Tendulkar. Other than Dravid in England our batting was worse than a club team's lineup.

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they werent defending anything today' date='so why this magnificent performance?[/quote'] Because nature of pitches also have a role to play,If you have followed indian cricket you would have surely watched how things were on flat pitches sorry even on green pitches and how our fast bowlers would amble up and bowl at 120k after lunch,These guys run in every ball and were unlucky they did create chances what more do you want ?When you do not keeps slips how will you catch the edges.

[Lord]

Because nature of pitches also have a role to play' date='If you have followed indian cricket you would have surely watched how things were on flat pitches sorry even on green pitches and how our fast bowlers would amble up and bowl at 120k after lunch,These guys run in every ball and were unlucky they did create chances what more do you want ?When you do not keeps slips how will you catch the edges.[/quote'] agree that captaincy was pathettic too.but what explains a Warner 180 on a greentop,tody two hundreds after 84-3?or 659-4 after 37-3? that I have watched cricket in the 90s only adds to the misery.had zero expectations from guys like Dodda n Harvinder,but these guys have the talent but r wasting it.

[Lord]

Coz it's a flat track and the series is gone anyways. This is how we should have batted at Sydney after losing early wkts. Blaming the bowlers for Eng and Aus fiasco is a sick joke. Sure' date=' our bowlers haven't exactly covered themselves in glory but bowling never was our strong suit. The biggest culprits and who should be taking lion's share of the blame is our batsmen. They looked like schoolboys in Eng and Aus and deserve all the blame they get, including Sachin "in great touch" Tendulkar. Other than Dravid in England our batting was worse than a club team's lineup.[/quote'] if we lose in SC who do we blame?batsmen,coz they r expected to do well in batting conditions,similarly in Aus n Eng if we lose a fair blame has to go to the bowlers.why it always has to be batsmen wen would our bowlers stand up???

[Ultimate_Game]

if we lose in SC who do we blame?batsmen' date='coz they r expected to do well in batting conditions,similarly in Aus n Eng if we lose a fair blame has to go to the bowlers.why it always has to be batsmen wen would our bowlers stand up???[/quote'] Because batsmen still have to score to win the games. Bowlers have to have something t play with. Low scores and collapses are fine once in a while but how on earth can you win a series when the team gets bundled out for 200 everytime?

[bulbul]

Because batsmen still have to score to win the games. Bowlers have to have something t play with. Low scores and collapses are fine once in a while but how on earth can you win a series when the team gets bundled out for 200 everytime?

Do you remember the main reason why our Last Adelaide win came ?

[vvvslaxman]

if we lose in SC who do we blame?batsmen' date='coz they r expected to do well in batting conditions,similarly in Aus n Eng if we lose a fair blame has to go to the bowlers.why it always has to be batsmen wen would our bowlers stand up???[/quote'] We have always been an imbalanced team. Very strong batting unit. Very average bowling unit. Average bowling unit looked better thanks to Zaheer and odd good spells by other bowlers. When that Very strong batting unit suddenly turned into average batting unit fall was really hard. Having said that Indian bowling unit in Australia is an inexperienced attack. Two new comers (Ashwin, Umesh), One injury return bowler (Zak), One crappy bowler (Ishant). It was expected they were not going to do anything special. Australia's traditional weakness has been swing. Unfortunately we lost Praveen at the wrong time. So it was all upto Zak to give break through and also sustain it.

[Lord]

Because batsmen still have to score to win the games. Bowlers have to have something t play with. Low scores and collapses are fine once in a while but how on earth can you win a series when the team gets bundled out for 200 everytime?

u can if u dont concede a big lead,take sydney for example we got 191 n 400,total 591,if we dismissed them for 300 odd we still would have a shot at winning,but instead we conceded 659-4 from 37-3?or in MCG where they conceded 240 from 27-4? I'm not saying the batsmen r faultless but to say they r the only one to blame is not on

[Ultimate_Game]

We have always been an imbalanced team. Very strong batting unit. Very average bowling unit. Average bowling unit looked better thanks to Zaheer and odd good spells by other bowlers. When that Very strong batting unit suddenly turned into average batting unit fall was really hard. Having said that Indian bowling unit in Australia is an inexperienced attack. Two new comers (Ashwin, Umesh), One injury return bowler (Zak), One crappy bowler (Ishant). It was expected they were not going to do anything special. Australia's traditional weakness has been swing. Unfortunately we lost Praveen at the wrong time. So it was all upto Zak to give break through and also sustain it.

Pls don't call them an "average" batting unit. They are much worse and have occasionally looked like schoolbiys out in the middle.

[Ultimate_Game]

u can if u dont concede a big lead,take sydney for example we got 191 n 400,total 591,if we dismissed them for 300 odd we still would have a shot at winning,but instead we conceded 659-4 from 37-3?or in MCG where they conceded 240 from 27-4? I'm not saying the batsmen r faultless but to say they r the only one to blame is not on

That 400 runs came when the match was dead and it was a matter of determining the margin of defeat. If the match was close we all know what would have happened - just like we crumbled to 280 from 214/2 at Melbourne.

[Lord]

We have always been an imbalanced team. Very strong batting unit. Very average bowling unit. Average bowling unit looked better thanks to Zaheer and odd good spells by other bowlers. When that Very strong batting unit suddenly turned into average batting unit fall was really hard. Having said that Indian bowling unit in Australia is an inexperienced attack. Two new comers (Ashwin, Umesh), One injury return bowler (Zak), One crappy bowler (Ishant). It was expected they were not going to do anything special. Australia's traditional weakness has been swing. Unfortunately we lost Praveen at the wrong time. So it was all upto Zak to give break through and also sustain it.

that r all excuses.inexperienced yes but they had the conditions.if they r not expected to d well why play them?

[Lord]

That 400 runs came when the match was dead and it was a matter of determining the margin of defeat. If the match was close we all know what would have happened - just like we crumbled to 280 from 214/2 at Melbourne.

n the match was dead because we conceded 659-4

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if we lose in SC who do we blame?batsmen' date='coz they r expected to do well in batting conditions,similarly in Aus n Eng if we lose a fair blame has to go to the bowlers.why it always has to be batsmen wen would our bowlers stand up???[/quote'] Blame has to be shared,But Larger blame to batsman as not only they batted badly but have dropped crucial catches and extremly poor captaincy,The catches we dropped in england and australia cost us hugely,We were in good positions due to our bowlers in england at trentbridge and in mcg ,But we let go when we were in match winning positions at 230-2 at mcg and 270-4 at trent bridge,These were series changing moments.

[Ultimate_Game]

n the match was dead because we conceded 659-4

No, the match was dead when we were bundled out for 190 in 60 overs on Day 1 on a batting pitch.

[Lord]

No' date=' the match was dead when we were bundled out for 190 in 60 overs on Day 1 on a batting pitch.[/quote'] match could have been well on if we bowled them out for 300

[Ultimate_Game]

match could have been well on if we bowled them out for 300

Unfortunately Aussies had batsmen who knew how to score runs on a batting beauty just like they are showing us at Adelaide. Once again, you are blaming bowlers for the batting failure.