Play to your strength... In any game thats the 1st thing one should be looking to do.
So, what is our strength, History tells us its always been Batting & Spin Bowling. So what do we do, we drop Laxman & Kumble. Great. One example of Playing to their strengths was given by Aus when they played their best bowlers , all seamers in the last 2 matches.
The truth of the matter is overseas players just don't have the talent to play spin bowling, Y not exploit this. Again, We reply by fielding 4 Seamers against WI & against AUS played just 1 spin bowler (coz they had 2 reinforce our batting). Even Mongia today got a wicket in the 1st over & was unlucky that Martyn was not given out later LBW, just think Kumble on this wicket. Agreed that Mohali pitch on the previous match was a seamers paradise, but this was a different Pitch.
Kumble is 36(same as McGrath) but has more heart when fielding then sum1 like Munaf or RP. This new rule of 20 Overs for powerplay is not good as its so very against spin bowling. It just leaves them with the middle 20 Overs considering the last 1o are slog overs.
Now coming to Batting, Martyn is the batsman doing really well in this series, his style & fortunes are similar to Laxman. We replace Laxman for Raina, who is not reliable. Today we saw our batsman playing cautiously as they just don't believe in the middle order (kaif,raina,mongia,, will not blame Dravid & the others 2 b cautious). When we play 5 Batsmen only , its imperative that all 5 are your best. We just can't get Raina in for laxman.
Part of the problem is : Trying too hard to find new seamers (nothing bad in that)..mager please don't neglect the gold of spin right infront of u. The seamers bowled a pile of shit today. I don't know why Munaf goes to around 77Mph when he is in his 4-5th overs, he starts off around 84-85, on the other hand the 5th aussie bowler Watson bowls around 87-88 consistently.
If u think Laxman is a liability in the field then just Munaf isn't good either , He just doesn't bend down,also Lax is a good Slip catcher.
At the end of it all it was a listless display, no sound of encouragement from anyone, kinda missed Ganguly today, Also there was a great display from AUS in all 3 departments.
So, what is our strength, History tells us its always been Batting & Spin Bowling. So what do we do, we drop Laxman & Kumble. Great. One example of Playing to their strengths was given by Aus when they played their best bowlers , all seamers in the last 2 matches.
The truth of the matter is overseas players just don't have the talent to play spin bowling, Y not exploit this. Again, We reply by fielding 4 Seamers against WI & against AUS played just 1 spin bowler (coz they had 2 reinforce our batting). Even Mongia today got a wicket in the 1st over & was unlucky that Martyn was not given out later LBW, just think Kumble on this wicket. Agreed that Mohali pitch on the previous match was a seamers paradise, but this was a different Pitch.
Kumble is 36(same as McGrath) but has more heart when fielding then sum1 like Munaf or RP. This new rule of 20 Overs for powerplay is not good as its so very against spin bowling. It just leaves them with the middle 20 Overs considering the last 1o are slog overs.
Now coming to Batting, Martyn is the batsman doing really well in this series, his style & fortunes are similar to Laxman. We replace Laxman for Raina, who is not reliable. Today we saw our batsman playing cautiously as they just don't believe in the middle order (kaif,raina,mongia,, will not blame Dravid & the others 2 b cautious). When we play 5 Batsmen only , its imperative that all 5 are your best. We just can't get Raina in for laxman.
Part of the problem is : Trying too hard to find new seamers (nothing bad in that)..mager please don't neglect the gold of spin right infront of u. The seamers bowled a pile of shit today. I don't know why Munaf goes to around 77Mph when he is in his 4-5th overs, he starts off around 84-85, on the other hand the 5th aussie bowler Watson bowls around 87-88 consistently.
If u think Laxman is a liability in the field then just Munaf isn't good either , He just doesn't bend down,also Lax is a good Slip catcher.
At the end of it all it was a listless display, no sound of encouragement from anyone, kinda missed Ganguly today, Also there was a great display from AUS in all 3 departments.
