What went wrong today? What had happened out there? Why didn't we bat well? Does these teens just outplayed us? These are the questions that should have been discussed by Dravid with his boys and analyse the fact to get to the bottom before we step forward to our next one.
We all know there is lot of pressure and a big load on Dravid's shoulder because we as country men as great expectation to win WC. But we also need to understand they can only get there one step at a time. I share same frustration that every other for our team losing to Bangladesh.
One day we blew out everything and play the very best to beat top of the line. Before we digest that, we are swept away by getting beaten up a thriving/minow teams. I know it had happened to us many times and we let it happen to us again today. Did we always need a eye opener everytime?
I am might not be an expert but as common sense cricketer sharing some similar with other cricket fans in the discussion forum. We all feel that there are lots of things which went wrong in today's match. Lets get to the bottom of it, atleast just for our satisfaction. Hope chappel, dravid and the boys would have done this analysis before they go to the next 2 matches. Lets hope so.
Toss: We are lucky to win the toss. Caribbean salty wind blowed to favor us to get the tails and Dravid won the toss. He knows the pitch is dry and he is sure that its going to hard for 10-20 overs. Why didn't he take the advantage of that to thrash the Bangladesh team for low score and win by chasing it. He already set his mind to bat first to score like S.A against Holland but it didn't happen. Its a failure.. Also why he didn't pick up 2 spinners as the pitch is favoring it. Did Dravid should change and make proper decision game plan as per the conditions prevailed not just taking the preplan?
Batting Lineup: Its good to see Ganguly back in WC with Sehwag. We expected to see a good first wicket partnership. But something got paltry and we ended up losing one wicket after other. Is it because the Ist wicket didn't give the confidence boost?
I know we need to give chance for Sehwag to try and get back to his form. But there were lots of warning inside and outside the cricket circle about bangladesh bowling. Did Dravid should have reconsidered the opening options? Did you think Sachin and Ganguly opening might have worked better ?
Sachin couldn't prevail the good pace bowling. Dravid(The wall) himself failed to stop the fall of wickets. But Yuvaraj with Ganguly helped us to reach a respectabe score. Dhoni also failed today. We have 3 ducks. We have to depend on the Bowlers to do the batsmen job. If they can stand for 6 overs and score 30 runs. We should not blame the pitch after 20-30 overs. We should blame the team confidence and mentality to stay there to play hard.
Bowling:Bowling was just mere ok. How come Agarkar came in the 11men team ? where did Pathan and others go ? He was always expensive and never played line and length. Zaheer did try hard to get it straight and bowled 2 maidens. Munaf tried hard but not at his best in his second spell and got few wickets but he became expensive too. Dravid tried Yuvaraj and Sehwag. Luckily Sehwag got 2 wickets when its just merely 20 runs to win when its all over.
Why didn't he want to try Ganguly's medium pace ?? Harbhajan bowling didn't make any good impression. He couldn't get the ball to spin at all. I think Kumble will never get to retire. He is the googly man we wanted..
Overall, our bowling doesn't come close too Bangladesh teens.
Fielding: You all know how we fielded. There is no aggression. There is no power. There were missing catches. Runs kept coming in singles and doubles except few dot overs.. We still should be able to defend the score if we bowled well in the first spel and field well.
As a captain and team, I don't see vigor and aggressiveness. Something is missing in the team. We have to find the mising factor and sketch down the power game plan for the next 2 matches. Otherwise we will fail hard and will let our country mens dream fail too.
I surely want to commend and give kudos's to the teen(tiger) team. They really played as well matured game with lots of composure. They really bowled well. They just played their natural game that what they all said in the post game interview. Rassak and Rafique stroke again to get more wickets to restrict the team. I know there don't have nothing to lose and they played just their best.
We failed in all the departments comparing to them. They really showed maturity and good composure as a team. But they still have long way to go..
To Conclude, our team has to wake up now otherwise it will be too late. We have to come back hard and hard enough with vengeance to win every game..
There is no need to get to the extreme to torce their houses and so forth. I know we love our team a lot and thats the reason we couldn't just take this defeat. Lets give them some space and hope they will be back. They will be back with vigor and vengeance.
There is no need to get to the extreme to torce their houses and so forth. I know we love our team a lot and thats the reason we couldn't just take this defeat. Lets give them some space and hope they will be back. They will be back with vigor and vengeance.
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