Deleted_User_1 Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 http://cricketnext.in.com/news/sehwag-says-india-still-world-champion/63408-13.html Adelaide: India's stand-in skipper in the Adelaide Test - which India lost on Saturday by 298 runs to lose the series 4-0 - Virender Sehwag said while the team fared poorly in the Test series, ODIs will be a different ball game as they are still the World Champions. "We are still the World Champions. Tests are different from ODIs. Australians were better and so they won the series but we care about our performance as well," said Sehwag after India lost their last four wickets within the first hour on day five to lose the Adelaide Test. Sehwag admitted that the team couldn't fire as a unit and hoped that the hard work shows up in the upcoming tri-series in which Sri Lanka are the third team. "Everyone has been working hard but players themselves have to go out and execute the plans. The defeat is disappointing but we need the support of fans," Sehwag said, urging the fans to stand with the team in its hour of adversity. India start the limited-overs leg of their Australia tour with two T20s against the hosts on February 1 and 3, which will be followed by the tri-series. Feck you!!!! Mothafockas in denial!!!!
Magneto Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 Was great fun watching this press conference :hehe: He is technically right, though :P
Deleted_User_1 Posted January 28, 2012 Author Posted January 28, 2012 Was great fun watching this press conference :hehe: He is technically right, though :P He wants fans to support this shyt?! This tells you how out of touch our maharathis are!
Deleted_User_1 Posted January 28, 2012 Author Posted January 28, 2012 Nothign wrong in what he said. Itna arsenic mat pee. It is fans like you that enable these a@@holes to be in denial and arrogant. Put them up on the altar and worship.
CG Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 Itna arsenic mat eei. It is fans like you that enable these a@@holes to be in denial and arrogant. Put them up on the altar and worship. Do they care?.
Magneto Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 He wants fans to support this shy?! This tells you how out of touch our maharathis are! He seemed genuinely hurt at the backlash and wanted fans to support them when 'times are not good'. Fair point from his perspective.
Deleted_User_1 Posted January 28, 2012 Author Posted January 28, 2012 He seemed genuinely hurt at the backlash and wanted fans to support them when 'times are not good'. Fair point from his perspective. who the feck made you Shitwag's agent?? :finger:
Number Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 lol .. he said our times are not good. Sehwag just doesn't deserve a place in the team. His willingness to do well in tough conditions has gone. He should be kicked out ..bloody ftb slogger.
Magneto Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 who the feck made you Shitwag's agent?? :finger: :hysterical: I felt sad at how sad he looked. Go Viru go :cheer: :cheer: I'll back you again! (Specially when there is no overseas Test for the next 2 years :winky: )
bulbul Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 now i dont see any reason why BCCI heads comment like we will win ODI series or Beat other when they come to India...if players have same mentality why should BCCI will differ.. an no need for any one to retire either :yay:
Deleted_User_1 Posted January 28, 2012 Author Posted January 28, 2012 :hysterical: I felt sad at how sad he looked. Go Viru go :cheer: :cheer: I'll back you again! (Specially when there is no overseas Test for the next 2 years :winky: ) Abaar Motu'r nunu naarchhish? :finger:
Magneto Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 Abaar Motu'r nunu naarchhish? :finger: :hysterical: :hysterical: Motur nunu fete doshta hoye gechhe.
amiret Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 In defence of Sehwag , i think he was just using these facts to defend himself against the barrage of questions he was facing. Don't think he was trying to seem arrogant.
asterix Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 Abaar Motu'r nunu naarchhish? :finger: :cantstop: The'll get trashed in ODIs too. World chumps
amiret Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 The journos thought Sehwag was pathetic. Just heard Gideon Haigh say ..and i parapharse As bad as Dhoni has been , he thought Sehwag's press conference was catastrophically bad and horrendously glib. It is as if team india's rockstars feel everyone should consider it a privilege to watch them lose 4-0.
Needforspeed Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 You F**k with the Public..Eventually the public will F**k u back. These guys live in palaces and drive Ferraris only because of the fans. If India continues to lose like this, Cricket will lose fanbase the same way hockey did.
rkt.india Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 'We also won 2-0 in India' - Sehwag India continue to keep bringing up their home record in response to their back-to-back 0-4 whitewashes in England and Australia. The moment the question about the whitewashes was asked, Virender Sehwag shot back even before it could be finished, "We also won 2-0 in India." Sehwag didn't see a big difference in the way the team has been performing, just that the "time is not good". "Everybody is practising hard at home, and then we came here and practised really hard," he said. "We make our own plans, and it didn't click. It happens with every team, with every player. The time is not good for Indian team, for individuals, so maybe that's why we are not scoring runs. "The moment the time changes, the next year we will see, or in the coming series, we will see our top order giving starts and middle order coming in and score big hundreds. It happens. If I am making any plans I won't tell you guys. I will go and execute in the ground rather than telling you." Sehwag said this is the same team that has been doing well for the last few years. "Our batting has been the same for last couple of years," he said. "We were doing well in 2007, 2008, 2009. We performed really well as a team and as a batting unit. But unfortunately we didn't do well in these two series. We were looking forward to these series and suddenly didn't do well and we let down our team. It's individual responsibility to go out there and play for themselves and play for the team. And to make sure we end up with a good total of at least 300 or 400, and then our bowlers can do the job. So it's disappointment for everybody." Sehwag also revealed that the fan and media reaction might have got to the team. "They should be upset with our performances, and I agree with them," he said. "But this is the time the fans should back the team, back the players. When we won the World Cup everybody was happy, and everybody was cheering for India. "Now is the time we need the support from fans and everybody. They should back their own team. Which [is what] every media did. Even England media or Australia media or South Africa media, they back their teams. They criticise in such a manner that the player will not go down. They criticise their performances but they don't criticise in such a manner that the team will go down when they read the articles and see the television." Sehwag said it was unfair to say that the India team didn't care about these defeats. "It's very unfair. Everybody cares about their performance. We are very passionate about the game, and we are passionate about the team. It's a shame if somebody is writing like that, saying like that. If you lose the game, you should go out there and work it out and what went wrong and come back and perform well in next game. We are trying that, but it is not happening. It doesn't mean that we are happy to lose." Sehwag said there were no technical flaws with the Indian batsmen, who he said were the main reason why India went down. "I don't think technically there is a fault," he said. "Nobody was working on their technical thing because they think they have played enough cricket and they have experience and they can handle. I think they realised they were making mistakes, and they were trying to not make the same mistakes in the next games." Sehwag accepted responsibility for his failures overseas. He has not scored a century outside the subcontinent in four years. "It's important for an opener to do well overseas, and I haven't done well. So I need to look at myself and make a good plan for the next time I go overseas. That's true." Sehwag was asked if Indian cricket needed the kind of review Australia went through after their Ashes defeat last year. "We have to look at ourselves. What went wrong with us. And then we have to take a call." When asked what kind of review it should be, Sehwag focussed more on the individual than a systemic overhaul. "It's an individual thing," he said. "I haven't performed well overseas, I haven't scored a hundred overseas for the last couple of tours. I have to look at myself and see what I need to do when I go to Australia or England or South Africa or New Zealand. It's my personal thing. Nothing related with the team." The general refrain, though, remained that India didn't need big changes. "Because we were playing the same team in the last couple of years and we became the No. 1 team with the same batting line-up, the same bowling line-up." http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-india-2011/content/story/551325.html
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now