Hi friends,
How was the day??? For me it was fine except the cricket match which made me sad… I don’t say India has to win each every match but it should go down fighting… Poor bowling is the reason, I feel and on this venue 307 was big task, even for Australia. But if India batted first and scored 307, then Australia would have easily chased the target, because our bowling had been a big problem from a long time in One day Internationals…The spinners are poor and Harbhajan Singh’s attitude towards bowling and batting is poor. Romesh Pawar has always been a bad fielder, his batting has been good enough for a while and bowling which was his plus point is very poor,in the few matches played…
On Kochi’s, wicket spinners should bowl well, but Pawar bowled 5 overs and gave away some 30 runs. Same is the case with Harbhajan Singh bowled 10 overs and gave away 57 runs with no wickets… ....Except Pathan who read the wicket well has bowled tight, while all the other bowlers gave away runs… I should appreciate the Australians for the importance they gave to singles. When ever a wicket falls they used to take singles for a while and then go for big shots… India has struggled to use the Indian conditions (pitch),while Australian bowlers never allowed any Indian batsman to fire…
Australia was struggling at 66/3 after the quite exit of Gilchrist, but Hayden & Symonds played for good partnership, ran for every single and when needed good big hits they were going for it… After Hayden then Haddin played a super innings… But I can’t blame the batsmen of India it is the bowling which is a let down. In Bangalore also same story bowlers gave away runs easily and fielding is average…
Bowling has been a let down even in T20 world cup also, but winning the matches has covered it up. But Australian team is showing the class of our bowlers… The match against England in T20 world cup, England lost the match by 18 runs.The batsmen have given a big target to defend but our bowlers nearly made a mess. Luckily we won the match… Same is the case in finals against Pakistan, 7 wickets gone for Pakistan and run rate was around 10 an over but Pakistan came so close and would have won the match if Misbal ul Haq had not played that silly shot and played a better shot, may be due to the last tie match between these two sides was in his mind and wanted to finish quickly this time…
I want to say finally that, every time India can’t chase targets more than 300 plus and that too against Australia… Indian batsmen can’t daily give targets around 300 plus to defend for bowlers. Bowlers need to learn how to bowl according to the field… Bowling and fielding is what made Zimbabwe beat Australia easily. Our fielding should be improved and bowling has to be consistent and Indian Cricket board should concentrate on certain number of bowlers instead of bringing back bowlers like Agarkar, Zaheer Khan, etc who are not suitable for ODI’s. These bowlers fail in bowling in a particular match we don’t have cover up bowlers…
So BCCI has to think much in this aspect instead of giving away 1 crore to Yuvaraj singh for hitting 6 sixes in an over… Just think in that match England came near to the target and lost by 18 runs, if England won the match what this record for and it is not useful for team cause…BCCI should think about taking for bowlers in the team for bench strength in foreign tours.I hope Indian team management take the bowling issue seriously… All the best for Indian cricket team.
With lots of love
Madhu...
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