Blunt assessment

[rkt.india]

Australian batting legend and former Indian team coach shares his views on why the world champions failed in their campaign Down Under Adelaide: The O'Connell's Bookshop at Hindley Street here was a favourite of the late Sir Donald Bradman. I was just outside the shop when a silver grey Toyota pulled up in front of me. The man behind the wheel was none other than Greg Chappell, the legendary Australian batsman and former Indian coach. Chappell was a man most Indian cricket fans love to hate. His tempestous relationship with former captain Sourav Ganguly is too well known. There is, however, no denying his cricketing acumen as Chappell looked back at a disastrous Indian tour Down Under during a chat with Gulf News. Excerpts: GULF NEWS: The Indians have already lost the Test series 0-3 and they're saying that it's due to the length the Aussie bowlers had bowled. REG CHAPPELL: It's an absolutely correct assessment. None of the Indian batsmen could score a hundred in the six innings they'd played so far (on the eve of the Adelaide Test). Are the Aussies batting well? Yes, they have four hundreds in three Test matches so far Ponting's 134, Clarke's 329 not out, Hussey made 150 and Warner 180. (The) Indians are looking for a hundred from Sachin. Undoubtedly, Tendulkar is the best Indian batsman in this series too. He is definitely not the player he used to be, but you just cannot ignore him even in 2012. And he will get the elusive 100th hundred soon. If not in Adelaide, definitely in the one-day series. What's your take on the other senior batsmen in the Indian camp? See, batting is all about scoring runs and on Australian wickets, you cannot survive playing defensively. You need to try and go for runs. Sehwag played brilliantly in the MCG when he had made that 195. Laxman went for runs in his earlier tours too. Pressure has to be stepped up on the Aussie bowlers, which we did not see in the current series. Sehwag has failed to do justice to his run-scoring abilities in the current series. Well, he is a wonderful timer of a cricket ball. I have never seen anyone timing the ball better than him. And he is aggressive, in the same club with Viv Richards and Adam Gilchrist. But he needs to motivate himself more to be among runs consistently. Don't you think that every team would have struggled against this Aussie attack? This is called the Chinese treatment. It's a blueprint made long before. The bowlers were asked to bowl continuously on the off-stump line so that the batsmen are forced to restrict their strokeplay and after a given time, they are forced to slash. As the water goes on drip drip drip, our bowlers are bowling at that corridor of uncertainty relentlessly. The bowlers got their dues. David Warner played a match-winning innings in the Sehwag-mode. He was slogging earlier when he was playing in the T20 matches. When he was picked for the Australia â' team, he was told to bat! In the nets in Zimbabawe, he was asked to connect the ball every time he had a go. Nets are where you try to work on your strong points to make it stronger. Peter Siddle was asked not to bowl back of length and he had to bowl fuller. These were the strategies we worked on and the blueprint was made on that basis. What about the Indian bowling? First, the line must be disciplined. You cannot deliver six balls in six different directions and have to bowl according to the field placing. Umesh Yadav impressed me, but Ishant (Sharma) was a disappointment. He was trying to bowl too short. Sreesanth bowls better, but he needs to be managed well. If he was not injured and came to Australia, he could have done better. He's a genuine match winner. Your thoughts on rebuilding a cricket team? It's a touchy issue but the selectors need to work thinking about the future. I strongly believe in giving the youngsters more chances so that they can get enough time to adapt to the Test standard. You give them 10 Tests and they can give you 25 more, while giving those same 10 Tests to a veteran will not give you anything more. http://gulfnews.com/sport/cricket/blunt-assessment-1.972233

[Stuge]

I can do blunt assessment in one line .."our batting ,fielding ,bowling was pathetic ".

[rkt.india]

Australian tour scores mock BCCI: Over the wicket In Australia's first innings at Adelaide, three of India's bowlers "recorded centuries" and another missed it by four runs. To give away a hundred runs and let two batsmen score double centuries clearly reveals the pathetic state of Indian bowling. All that the Australians have done in this series is to merely capitalise on the Indian team's inherent weakness. As long as India does not create an environment to produce genuine pacers, all bowlers will continue to be whipping boys of top batsmen on foreign wickets. The call for coach Duncan Fletcher's head has already begun. Whether it is Fletcher or even his predecessor Gary Kirsten, who is hailed as India's most successful coach, there is only so much a coach can do if his bowlers remain feeble. What it looks like now is that the Indian bowlers, instead of creating fear in the batsmen, are scared to bowl at them. Double centuries and triple centuries can be scored against them with ease. Critical study All officials of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), who dream of India regaining their No 1 rank in Test cricket, need to critically study the scoreboard of all the four Test matches against Australia and ask themselves where they have gone wrong. While it is a fact that the BCCI officials are all caught up in retaining themselves as the richest cricket board in the world, what they missed out on was strengthening the team. Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and V.V.S. Laxman are all approaching their last few days in the game... have they thought of any names who can step into their shoes? Why haven't they created a battery of bowlers capable of creating fear among batsmen? Fast pitches Take a look at the Australian team. Even before one could ask whether the Australian attack will be as lethal as in the past, they have lined up a battery of pacers who can create havoc with their fearsome pace. Though T.A. Sekhar, a coach who has mastered the art of moulding good pacers such as the legendary Dennis Lillee, is in India. BCCI officials do not even consult him for advice. Strangely, almost all Indian pacers, and pacers from other countries as well, consult him privately, but not BCCI. Reluctance to create fast pitches will continue to deprive India of top class pacers and also create batsmen who fear pacers on foreign soil. As long as the BCCI lives in a world of glamour and riches, scoreboards with double and triple centuries and innings defeats on foreign soil will continue to mock them. http://gulfnews.com/sport/cricket/australian-tour-scores-mock-bcci-over-the-wicket-1.972234

[Magneto]

Australian batting legend and former Indian team coach shares his views on why the world champions failed in their campaign Down Under Adelaide: The O'Connell's Bookshop at Hindley Street here was a favourite of the late Sir Donald Bradman. I was just outside the shop when a silver grey Toyota pulled up in front of me. The man behind the wheel was none other than Greg Chappell, the legendary Australian batsman and former Indian coach. Chappell was a man most Indian cricket fans love to hate. His tempestous relationship with former captain Sourav Ganguly is too well known. There is, however, no denying his cricketing acumen as Chappell looked back at a disastrous Indian tour Down Under during a chat with Gulf News. Excerpts: GULF NEWS: The Indians have already lost the Test series 0-3 and they're saying that it's due to the length the Aussie bowlers had bowled. REG CHAPPELL: It's an absolutely correct assessment. None of the Indian batsmen could score a hundred in the six innings they'd played so far (on the eve of the Adelaide Test). Are the Aussies batting well? Yes, they have four hundreds in three Test matches so far Ponting's 134, Clarke's 329 not out, Hussey made 150 and Warner 180. (The) Indians are looking for a hundred from Sachin. Undoubtedly, Tendulkar is the best Indian batsman in this series too. He is definitely not the player he used to be, but you just cannot ignore him even in 2012. And he will get the elusive 100th hundred soon. If not in Adelaide, definitely in the one-day series. What's your take on the other senior batsmen in the Indian camp? See, batting is all about scoring runs and on Australian wickets, you cannot survive playing defensively. You need to try and go for runs. Sehwag played brilliantly in the MCG when he had made that 195. Laxman went for runs in his earlier tours too. Pressure has to be stepped up on the Aussie bowlers, which we did not see in the current series. Sehwag has failed to do justice to his run-scoring abilities in the current series. Well, he is a wonderful timer of a cricket ball. I have never seen anyone timing the ball better than him. And he is aggressive, in the same club with Viv Richards and Adam Gilchrist. But he needs to motivate himself more to be among runs consistently. Don't you think that every team would have struggled against this Aussie attack? This is called the Chinese treatment. It's a blueprint made long before. The bowlers were asked to bowl continuously on the off-stump line so that the batsmen are forced to restrict their strokeplay and after a given time, they are forced to slash. As the water goes on drip drip drip, our bowlers are bowling at that corridor of uncertainty relentlessly. The bowlers got their dues. David Warner played a match-winning innings in the Sehwag-mode. He was slogging earlier when he was playing in the T20 matches. When he was picked for the Australia ' team, he was told to bat! In the nets in Zimbabawe, he was asked to connect the ball every time he had a go. Nets are where you try to work on your strong points to make it stronger. Peter Siddle was asked not to bowl back of length and he had to bowl fuller. These were the strategies we worked on and the blueprint was made on that basis. What about the Indian bowling? First, the line must be disciplined. You cannot deliver six balls in six different directions and have to bowl according to the field placing. Umesh Yadav impressed me, but Ishant (Sharma) was a disappointment. He was trying to bowl too short. Sreesanth bowls better, but he needs to be managed well. If he was not injured and came to Australia, he could have done better. He's a genuine match winner. Your thoughts on rebuilding a cricket team? It's a touchy issue but the selectors need to work thinking about the future. I strongly believe in giving the youngsters more chances so that they can get enough time to adapt to the Test standard. You give them 10 Tests and they can give you 25 more, while giving those same 10 Tests to a veteran will not give you anything more. http://gulfnews.com/sport/cricket/blunt-assessment-1.972233

I think DTW has not seen this report yet :giggle:

[peterparker]

let us see what oz will do in india..on rank turners..already, the so called no.1 team did not even last long for a year