INDIAN TEAM IS LOSING THE RHYTHEM

[Imran Khan]

Well ..guyz ..v hav seen whts happening from the last month the team which was the second best of the world has slipped to fifth postion ...is these not the high time to think what all changes to be done .... so as to regain wht they hav lost ..... no body is in good form ...every one is suffering with injuries ....

I agree with wht Barry richard said in his article in DC paper..."that therz no need of playing with 7 batsman "

[azazel]

yea man, its the lack of consistency i tell u. we need a better bowling attack. 6/7 batsmen doesnt really matter i guess, Kaif still has much to prove as a batsman. he's just arnd for his good fielding more or less.

[Sharjeel]

I tell ya Its Sachin.



Drop the Bastard! Or kill the bastard who instructed him to bat slowly and hold the innings together.

[black wizard]

er....Rhythem???

[asli_badmash`]

er....Rhythem???

... Eggzactly.. ??

AZ: I dont think Kaif is to blame. He comes 7th down and is always under pressure.



India cant afford to thow away wickets. Dravid has been having a very lean patch. He must perform better!

[Hari]

I hope the new WK/batsman they picked, Karthik will get a chance to prove he belongs in the big league. I have been following his scores with the A team and he could be a difference maker, watchout for him.

[rainmaker]

I tell ya Its Sachin.

Drop the Bastard! Or kill the bastard who instructed him to bat slowly and hold the innings together.

sachin has been discussed earlier... go there for your answers... but DO NOT say anything against him without reading that thread

[rainmaker]

yea man, its the lack of consistency i tell u. we need a better bowling attack. 6/7 batsmen doesnt really matter i guess, Kaif still has much to prove as a batsman. he's just arnd for his good fielding more or less.

ur right.. kaifu is nice but he's not ideal for the slog overs. he needs to get time to build his innings. we should play with 6 batsmen and play with kaifu as the 12th man. any injury to the top 6, and kaifu comes into the team.



anyhow after 2-3 years ganguly will retire and then kaifu will replace him. for now lets hope dinesh kartik gets a chance to play and plays well!!



PS: we dont need 7 batsmen coz irfan pathan has a very good technique.. he has kapil dev potential

[akhilis2cool]

indias performance in the last series (holland) cannot b rated as bad...after they played just one game and that was for just 33 overs....on the other hand it was gr8 to c balaji do well.

[rainmaker]

indias performance in the last series (holland) cannot b rated as bad...after they played just one game and that was for just 33 overs....on the other hand it was gr8 to c balaji do well.

add to it the fact that Sachin did not play that 33 over game that they lost.

[akhilis2cool]

indias performance in the last series (holland) cannot b rated as bad...after they played just one game and that was for just 33 overs....on the other hand it was gr8 to c balaji do well.

add to it the fact that Sachin did not play that 33 over game that they lost.

yehh...not that sachin is the only match winner.....but it was a rain shortened game and i think irfan pathan cld have bowled better....+ the pitch was too slow and turned in the 2nd innings.

[Sachin Tendulkar "God of India]

Well guys engh of shit abt me. I think I am the GREATEST bastmen around in the world since the last 7 years.

I think Kaif shld be in the team two of our greatest victories would not have been possible without Kaif. NATWEST and fourth one dayer in pak..

He is an excellent fielder tooo.

England is in gud form and we shld pull our socks up and do well to get back into RYTHM.

Hope u all will be with us as alwaysssssss.

[azazel]

AZ: I dont think Kaif is to blame. He comes 7th down and is always under pressure.

im not blaming ne1 here. just my 2 paise on the goings-on. instead of keeping Kaif in the line-up, we could play an extra bowler.

[Habitual Perfectionist]

Not all teams can achieve the consistency of the late 70s-early 80s W.Indies or the current Aussies. We need to appreciate the fact that cricket if a game where 22 players are involved and thus, the sheer improbability of the game increases to mind boggling levels.



Further, every team hits a lean patch sometime or the other. The amount of cricket being played nowadays is enormous and that can break the best of players. Case in point are Sachin and Dravid. Hell....even Matthew Hayden, Brian Lara, Inzamam, Kallis and Vaughan have lean patches. Why hit on the Indian players when they are going through one?



During the 1991-92 seies in Australia (prior to the 92 world cup), every Indian fan was hitting on Ravi Shastri. Shastri jokes were the rage of the day (Lucky Shastri that we didn't have the net or SMS then). But in the Sydney test, he hit a century and suddenly the whole nation found their messiah in Shastri.



A poser to all critics of the Indian team - Sprint 100 metres everyday and clock your time. You'll see for yourself that you have your good days and bad days. And just beause you have a form cycle, you don't become good or bad. Good or bad should be determined by how the entity applies itself in a particular situation. India didn't have all that bad an Asia Cup. We reached the finals. And the team we lost to in the final was on a roll. I doubt if even the Aussies would have bean able to beat Lanka had they been around for the tournament.



So folks, just chill and give the men in blue a break. They've performed excellent in the last season. The Champoins Trophy is coming up soon and its good that we haven't peaked now. That would have been too early and the law of averages would have got to us.

[Sharjeel]

Well said, HP!

[rabbithole]

i said it before ... i say it again



why does'nt anyone talk of ganguly? its been quite some time he has'nt played a match winning innings..a lot of time actually

[Habitual Perfectionist]

i said it before ... i say it again

why does'nt anyone talk of ganguly? its been quite some time he has'nt played a match winning innings..a lot of time actually

true...he hasn't. But he has played more than his part with his captaincy.

[Sharjeel]

You tend to ignore the fact that he gets 34-45 almost everytime he walks out to bat.

[Achilles]

Indian team is too good to do ads. There most of the attention is deviated from what they are intended to do. Whole team is dependent on a single players performance.. GURRR

[azazel]

Indian team is too good to do ads. There most of the attention is deviated from what they are intended to do. Whole team is dependent on a single players performance.. GURRR

not exactly true man. most of the guys in the team dont come from affluent backgrounds. the way they're treated as superstars as soon as they begin to make a mark, obviously has its affect. the Ads n $$ that come their way surely are quite tempting, u n i or ne other person would grab the opportunity too. i dont think the players involving themselves in ne other activites other than the game results in the performance level coming down. its true tho, that the pressure is more to live upto those extremely high expectations. ultimately, its the team performance tht wins the game.

[akhili2cool]

every one has the rite to earn money....but they also have to make sure that they dont let the success go thru their heads. in this regard i think the indians have done a good job.

[Imran Khan]

therez no doubt that our side is a balnaced side but ..now a days they r not playin upto their potential ...be it Sachin or Laxman....wht v hav seen is our indian batsmans who are very gud in playing against the spiners hav struggled....Yuvraj specially ...i think our batting order shud be arranged properly like pushing ....Kaif up the order ...who can work out the singles most .......Yuvraj shud come in the pressure sitution where v need some hitting which he can do it .........

[Kenny]

*Realizes he doesn't know the first thing about cricket*



*Reluctantly ends his post, knowing what's gonna happen at the end...*

[rainmaker]

You tend to ignore the fact that he gets 34-45 almost everytime he walks out to bat.

no prejudice, just facts:



lets forget the career averages because they do not reflect the Current Form of the players. after the world cup, india has played around 29 One Day Matches. here are the Averages of our batsmen (only the last 28 ODI's played by india have been considered, source wisden.com) :



tendulkar ... average 52.00

laxman.. average 41.04

dravid ... average 40.00

ganguly ... average 32.84

yuvraj.. average 32.70

sehwag ... average 30.93

kaif.... average 30.25



according to me india will start winning matches more regularly if everyone had a healthy average. sehwag, ganguly, yuvraj and kaif are suffering from a form slump. no wonder we lost so badly against pakistan in the holland match -- tendulkar didnt play, dravid was run out without facing a ball. took away 92 runs of average in one blow.



i feel the batting order needs a major revamp. what do u think of this:



1. tendulkar

2. yuvraj (very good batsman against pace)

3. sehwag (keeps up the momentum if openers fail)

4. laxman (drops anchor and builds his innings)

5. dravid (should prevent the batting order from collapsing)

6. ganguly (very good against spin and also at slogging)

7. gavaskar (slogger) / kartik (regular wicketkeeper)



i know, everything looks very good on paper! but if we want to turn around our performances we should experiment. we have the example of shoaib malik and the pakistani team in front of us... look how he's demolishing teams coming in at the number 3 position.

[azazel]

but if we want to turn around our performances we should experiment

thts one thing i feel our team doesnt do as often as they should. if they do go ahead with it, its better to give the players some time to adjust to the change. Shoaib Malik is making life hell for the opposition alrite. They lost the finals more due to lameass umpiring by David Shepherd IMHO