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Credit to WI spirit. cricket is a game of skill that has liberal doses of luck! Jaffas dont get a wicket and long hop gutter balls get a centurion sometimes. 

It was just not our day.. that being said, the bowling lacked a plan. Ishant and Umesh did not make Batsmen play enough. Ashwin and Mishra did not bowl enough the short of good length ripping spinning deliveries.  

Posted

1 wicket in entire 5th day. 1 was gifted by umpire. I am not how many times that has happened in test cricket.

 

They attacked this bowling and Indian team had no answers. Nothing new, they have struggled like this before. KP in India, Big Mac in NZ. This bowling line up is clueless against such batting approach. 

 

Generally if batsmen are attacking you need at least one pacers to take the lead. Unfortunately Shami and Umesh haven't played much and even the guy who played 70 matches bowls like club bolwer. 

 

Batting was good to exploit this weakness of Indian bowlers. But they need to improve on this part quickly as it will be a big problem against other teams.

Posted
2 hours ago, rett said:

Neither this, nor that .... a mix of both

 

Additionally, much like pitch/conditions assisted Ind bowling on day 4, pitch/conditions supported batting on day 5

Pitch shouldn't be brought it in the discussion. Even on flattest tracks good teams manage 3-4 or more wickets on day 1 when there is absolutely no help at all. 

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26 minutes ago, Vibhash said:

Pitch shouldn't be brought it in the discussion. Even on flattest tracks good teams manage 3-4 or more wickets on day 1 when there is absolutely no help at all. 

Pitch does play a part. Remember Mohali. We could not get a single wicket on day 5 in India. We have seen whole day long partnerships before. It is not like it has happened for the first time. Dravid-Laxman at Eden. Dravid-Laxman again Australia 2003. Jaysuriya-Mahanama did it against us.

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6 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Pitch does play a part. Remember Mohali. We could not get a single wicket on day 5 in India. We have seen whole day long partnerships before. It is not like it has happened for the first time. Dravid-Laxman at Eden. Dravid-Laxman again Australia 2003. Jaysuriya-Mahanama did it against us.

Apart from Mahanama , all of the batsmen were class batsmen, The chase and Dowlrich are not even recognised in test cricket.Blackwood ,  Chase , Dowrich , Holder . These are not even in category of  average test batsmen .On the other hand Ishant , is playing from 8 years , Yadav -5 and Ashwin is consider as one of top spinner in world

Posted (edited)
28 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Pitch does play a part. Remember Mohali. We could not get a single wicket on day 5 in India. We have seen whole day long partnerships before. It is not like it has happened for the first time. Dravid-Laxman at Eden. Dravid-Laxman again Australia 2003. Jaysuriya-Mahanama did it against us.

5th day, ball was reverse swinging, there was little bit of turn. Holder, Chase, Dorwich. 4 wickets down and runs on board. It's far from the unfavorable condition to pick only 1 wicket.

 

Very good batting assisted by poor bowling.

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Posted

It was a very poor bowling display by our bowlers.Ashwin again was not able to pick wickets.Ishant,Yadav & Mishra were poor.They were not able to pick wickets on 5 day pitch,when the opposition was 4 wicket down.

They just thought they have turned up,they will pick the remaining wickets.T hey didn't have any plans.When Blackwood attacked them,they didn't have any answers.

 

Posted

India is not the country where we get class pace bowlers consistently.....atleast they are doing better now, as compared to earlier generations.

It's a lapse in the bowling attack which is bound to happen, with the class we have......this could continue to happen, here and there, unless we can find another zaheer khan...

Unfortunately, Ishant cannot get 6 bowls at the same area even after 8 years of international cricket.....Shami is miles ahead of him....

I am still happy with overall improvement, esp with catching....

This team is still competent in all conditions......

Misshy has declined many folds.....is this the temporary decline or permanent ....only time will tell....

Posted
20 minutes ago, gakgupta said:

India is not the country where we get class pace bowlers consistently.....atleast they are doing better now, as compared to earlier generations.

It's a lapse in the bowling attack which is bound to happen, with the class we have......this could continue to happen, here and there, unless we can find another zaheer khan...

Unfortunately, Ishant cannot get 6 bowls at the same area even after 8 years of international cricket.....Shami is miles ahead of him....

I am still happy with overall improvement, esp with catching....

This team is still competent in all conditions......

Misshy has declined many folds.....is this the temporary decline or permanent ....only time will tell....

Shami is only decent bowler in this team. Ishant and Yadav are useless atm. 

Posted
57 minutes ago, Singh bling said:

Apart from Mahanama , all of the batsmen were class batsmen, The chase and Dowlrich are not even recognised in test cricket.Blackwood ,  Chase , Dowrich , Holder . These are not even in category of  average test batsmen .On the other hand Ishant , is playing from 8 years , Yadav -5 and Ashwin is consider as one of top spinner in world

Razzaq and Akmal were class batsmen. Chase and Dowrich may be debutants but every good player makes his name by playing innings like these.

Posted
26 minutes ago, gakgupta said:

India is not the country where we get class pace bowlers consistently.....atleast they are doing better now, as compared to earlier generations.

It's a lapse in the bowling attack which is bound to happen, with the class we have......this could continue to happen, here and there, unless we can find another zaheer khan...

Unfortunately, Ishant cannot get 6 bowls at the same area even after 8 years of international cricket.....Shami is miles ahead of him....

I am still happy with overall improvement, esp with catching....

This team is still competent in all conditions......

Misshy has declined many folds.....is this the temporary decline or permanent ....only time will tell....

Zaheer was not great by any means in scenarios like this. Capetown 2010, Durban 2013 and then that test in NZ. We got draws from winnings positions and Zaheer was there in all three games. People highly overrate him.

Posted

Their approach was simple..Go and attack..Giving the first over to Mishra worked against us.They started scoring freely against Mishra.Ishant showed his true talent..Ashwin looked frustrated.Yadav tried to bowl bouncers as well reverse swing but couldnt execute it well.

Posted

We started on the wrong foot by bowling mishra. WI attacked mishra read bad and after that the bowling attacked just crumbled under pressure. Not a single wicket by the bowlers. One was a brilliant catch and next was a gift. 

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