I heard Vengsarkar's term as the Chairman of Selectors will be ending sometime soon.He is planning for a mega bash where he'll be releasing his semi-pseudo-autobiography, "How to turn Hindustan into Kabristan in the name of Youngistan"
Great job Colonel.Mission accomplished.[people may say that it was his team that won us T20 WC and the CB series in australia.After IPL, we all know how methodic T20 is and the win in CB series was due to classy Sachin and few sparks of briliiance from others]
Vegsarkar has one final chance to restore his pride(tending to zero) as he'll be selecting a 30-men probables list for ICC champions trophy ,sometime soon.Lets see what he does before stepping down, correcting his past mistakes or continuing them.
Its been long time since I posted anything.Blame it on work,hectic schedule or whatever!!I just couldn't hold myself back from posting this, India losing 2 consecutive finals under MSD and he shamelessly says in the post match interview, I quote,"We atleast reached those 22 finals" on being asked about the shabby form of India losing 18 of the last 22 finals since 1999.
[It was a treat to watch King Fed vs Rafa in wimbeldon final and hearing their post-match comments.Sportsmen to the core!!]
Great job done MSD.Ordinary performance,Pathetic attitude,Irritating behaviour and on top of it as a cherry comes his shameless public comments.He might have tried to be funny as he can't be too critical at that time.But, come on, more than 1 billion people back this team and spend their days and nights watching them,praying for them,discussing about them.As a captain, I would have expected a mature response.But as Vengsarkar says, its a young team and they will take some time to settle down.All the best MSD!!
We have lost two finals in succession.These were the matches that we should have won.But we still managed to get defeated.
What does retrospection shed light on ??What is it that we could have done differently in this match that to have made us end on winning side ??
We should have batted well!!
No doubt that Gambhir, Viru,Yuvi and others are all highly skilled and are match-winners, the records speak for themselves but they faultered at the wrong time.And this is not first time that we have seen this .
I know that this debate has been sparked every now and then and seems to be the favourite of every cricket follower in this nation and outside...But, what we needed today was someone like Sachin,Sourav,Rahul to have been on the batting line-up..
The time is running out.Bring back Sourav and Rahul into ODIs.Its now or never, this is the last chance we can give to Dada and RD to help resurrect their and Team INDIA's fortunes...These guys are legends already and they have nothing else to prove to anybody.But I feel, more than themselves its the TEAM which needs them.
We can have them in the team and play 2 out of big 3(Sachin,Sourav,Rahul) on a rotation basis and get some stability in the team..THe highly skilled youngsters can gain more experience with them and get ready to hold the mantle of the team in big matches.
I'm not saying that this would have guaranteed a win(in ASIA cup finals or Kitply cup)but definitely the probability would have been higher..We needed somone with enough experience to handle the big match situation and face challenges like facing the mystery bowling of Mendis,other veterans like Vaas and Murali and to pace the chase well.
May what happen,my undying support to Team India will continue.But it hurts when we lose like this because of some Mohd.Tughlaq strategy :-)
What is life without retrospection and correction??Just a boring family drama!!
Lets hope things change and we rule the world of cricket again(actual sport, no the money world ruling it)
ALL the BEST to Team INDIA!!
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