CB Series Cricket (Closed Thread)

Match was really a thriller , wish SL could have made it .

Sachin rested.
Australia bat.

India caught amongst FORREST fire. It will be tough to WADE through this... Australia 150/3... Looks like 300 is on the cards.

All the HUSSEY (laugh) being wiped off indian players faces...

Yes, good last 10-13 overs. But as you say chasing 270 will be a tough task.

Decent start. No wickets down. 7 overs, 37 runs.

Sehwag goes. India 52/1

Kohli goes now. Indian 100 up.

India need 91 off 90 balls. Gambhir and Rohit out. We can still do this easily. Dhoni and Raina at the crease. Jadeja and Ashwin to follow.

Dhoni preparing for the next test series. 2 off 15 balls, ridiculous.

This is nail biting stuff!!! COME ON

What is MSD doing? Playing dot balls in the second last over.. Aarghhh

Win Win Win

win win win

But begs the question really, why does Dhoni play like that?
I mean we could have won with singles. But he kept on playing dot balls. At the end of the day, we won, but it could have gone horribly wrong.

What a match! Got lucky to watch the last 7-10 overs at a paan ka galla :P
I love ODI's :) :) :)

The tri series is wide open now.
GAME ON :)

Dhoni again trying to take the game to the 50th over!!

10 an over required now. Powerplay taken. Dhoni tees off! A six and four and another 50.

Dhoni goes. Played a test knock. Last formalities remain.

Dhoni plays in a way which puts pressure on everyone. He makes easy chases difficult by playing a test knock, other players get out, he throws his bat at the very last moment and with loads of luck sometimes manages to get the team over the line and steal the limelight.
Kohli has a severe psychological problem, kid just cant handle failures or for that matter success, always over the top reactions, always abusive. Dont want to see these qualities in our so called future captain.
Sachin needs to retire from ODI cricket as well, he seems well past his sell by date.

Kohli + captain = misfit. Atleast, if this is what we're seeing of him.

Dhoni.. I don't know why he's playing that way.. esp chasing a target at over 5.5RPO, and finding his team in trouble.. taking it to last over doesn't work every time.. limelight, let him have it.. as a player who stepped up to the plate throughout his innings, not just the last throw of the bat.

Lee bowled with fire and passion which our bowlers severely lack. A 20 something Ashwin looks lethargic in the field while 35 year old Lee dives and swoops everywhere, just a natural athlete.

Morale would be high with MSD I think I think Gambhir would be skipper... Let Sehwag and Sachin both rest.. bring in Tiwari and Ashwin.. Whatever the result, it'd be infusing the youth into the team... 

(PS: MSD = Missing Skipper Dhoni)

We have to bring Parthiv as well to replace Dhoni!! If Tiwary plays one of Raina or Rohit will have to be dropped.

Ricky Ponting, last 10 ODI innings - 133 runs. Thats why he is dropped.

You are right about australia putting TEAM over PLAYER. Clarke showed it in the test series. The Aussie's are known for that quality. Its admirable.

Sehwag gives a fitting reply to MSD. Takes a one handed diving full length catch. Mahela out.

Dilshan goes now caught by MSD's replacement!!

Sanga departs. Sachin takes the catch on the ropes.

But isn't a catch on the ropes considered a six, DS? 

I am very poor in my english writing skills Leo. Sorry. It should have been near the ropes.

By the way have you abandoned this thread? Why not more active?

LOLZ :) I was just kidding :P 

I'd be more active, but I didn't feel like threading an Indian miserable performance completely on Sunday, if u know what I mean :(

I know you were kidding Leo and it will be good if you are a little bit more active here. Its boring to keep writing for me alone.

Will do, good buddy! :)

Thanks man :)

It will be a very tough chase. Very very tough.
Lets see. Sehwag was doing anything, the last two overs were funny.

Sachin departs. Time for him to seriously consider retiring from ODI cricket.

Humiliating loss. Just avoided conceding the bonus point.

And they deserve it, for they've shown TEAM INDIA that chasing 280+ target is not impossible if they play properly. they were NEVER under pressure.. or if they were, they didn't show it. Mahela said that it was a day when everything found the gaps.. but I think Lanka played very well to find them. They weren't given gaps!

Sri Lanka are the in form team now. They have played absolutely brilliantly inspite of not being paid since the World Cup.

That's sad to know, but they deserve it.. I don't really know at whose expense, but their style of play at the moment makes them meriting of final's spot.

Very true. They deserve it completely. Even the first two games that they lost were very very close.

They have been poor to say the least. Maybe the team has decided it needs rest before the IPL so they dont want to qualify for the finals.

DS my friend, for every tournament that the Men in Blue do not succeed in, what use is it blaming the IPL? If that's the way the ball is bouncing each time, a tournament in December, six months after the IPL would be blamed. If it's in February, two months before the IPL, it is blamed saying players are distracted because of that. Call water as water, and let's say the players aren't performing to the level we've seen and known and expect to play at.

I blame IPL because in that time players could have rested and recharged for future tours.
Atleast they should keep a CAP on the number of matches a player can play.

That's true.. in that case, I blame the ICL.. because BCCI wanted to compete with the ICL, it got IPL.. or do I blame the BCCI for wanting to compete? In the end, I blame only BCCI..

I agree with Leo, Indian Cricket Team fans always have "Dog and Tail" stroy to blame. Top order is falling prey to silly mistakes (Sehwag, sachin, gautam all have repeated their mistakes), Middle order is completely unstable (Raina hasn't clicked at all, Dhoni wastes 20 - 30 balls before firing, if he gets out in between than others don't have enough deliveries to play). Only people who are performing to their potential are the bowlers such as Ashwin & Irfan (both have contributed with bat & Ball)

Just see, after IPL a couple of our players will get injured. While most of our first choice players will skip the following series.

They might, DS. but every time we lose, we can't just blame IPL, or say that it's okay, we are in a rut, we're still world champions.. how long would we say that? till Aus/NZ WC in 2015? Australia have started settling their squad.. their chief mentioned, we're sacking Ricky Ponting both coz of his form, and seeing the next WC in mind. By another year, they'd do the same with Mr. Cricket Michael Hussey & his brother too. But they'll let go of the player to keep the team first. Sachin was put in this ODI squad for what? If he wasn't there, and he opted to do only tests, he'd have had an opportunity vs Pakistan to complete that 100th 100. in front of Indian fans..  why pick Viru to captain the squad when he was rested previous match and was NOT IN FORM?  Gambhir is an able captain too.. He could've taken the reins and Tiwary or Rohit Sharma would've got a chance.. or Rahane would be in the squad for Sachin, he'd have tried to settle into the #3 slot or openers lot.

Mistakes are there, in BCCI's court. I don't find blaming a single continuous T20 tournament for a loss half the year later.

You are right there mistakes are there in the way BCCI functions. And Sachin should now retire from Odi's, he is not going to play the 2015 WC so we better give youngsters enough opportunities to cement their places.

I find fault not only with the way the BCCI runs Team India, but the way they operate in general. Running ICC coz they have the most moolah of cricket boards.