It's not what it's looks like..

From the day I knew about cricket and till today I never stopped to follow cricket when India is playing. This post is related to yesterday’s match, when India was in a position to win the match and everybody was expecting sachin to get hundred and that didn’t happen at the end. It has created some controversies regarding Dinesh Karthick didn’t rotate the strike to sachin instead he was hitting four’s and even one six too.

When I was looking into the below picture I didn’t watch the highlights yet, and I was trying to think what sachin is saying to DK. This what I came up with,

இது ஒரு கற்பனையே, யாருடைய மனதயும் புண்படுத்துவதற்கு அல்ல!!!

ST:ஏன்டா ஏன்????? உன்னைய யாரு போரு, சிக்ஸ்னு அடிக்க சொன்னது....??? அடிக்க சொல்லறப்ப யாரும் அடிக்காதீங்க,

DK:அண்ணன் அது வந்து..

ST:என்னடா வந்து போயி, அதான் அடிசிட்டயே,,,,

ஒருத்தன் மொதல இருந்து குருவி சேக்கரமாதிரி ஒன்னு, ரெண்டுன்னு சேத்து வெச்சா, நீங்க கடைசில வந்து வின்னிங் ரன்

அடிச்சிட்டு போயிடுவிங்க!!!!

DK:அண்ணன் , நான் வந்து சும்மாதான் தொட்டேன், ஆனா அவன் வேகமா போட்டதுனால அது போர் போயிடிச்சு!!!

ST:டேய், ஓடிப்போயிரு இல்லாட்டி என்கிட்ட மிதி வாங்கப்போற!!!!!

The real story is,

DK was not happy that he got the four in the final ball and it was not an intentional shot and he was apologizing to Sachin while walking back to pavilion. As our hero sachin never think about his personal milestone though few people say he plays for himself. After watching the highlights I can say that sachin might have told him, “don’t worry about it, it doesn’t matter”.

So “it’s not what its looks like”.

Sourav Gangully..

A great captain who brought up the aggression to the game and gave chances to lot’s fresher’s. He was the best opponent for Ponting as a captain. I was really amazed when he was batting with sachin and there were times I wished him to overtake sachin runs. When I started watching cricket and when I get to know all the players in the team sourav was my favorite cricketer especially for his offside shots and for his huge sixes. Still sachin and sourav is the best one day opening pair. The way he comes back to the team shows his dedication to the cricket and he left with good winning knock to which he has contributed and it will happen only to few players. He was lucky for that though he had gone into lots of controversies. Though Sourav’s success rate as captain is low in overseas in both form of the game compare to Dravid’s still sourav is remembered for his captaincy. I wish him all the very best for his rest of the life.

Test match drawn... Why?

This is my personal opinion about the first test which ended in draw. Why the Indians are not changing their tactics for more than a decade. Can’t we chase those 299 runs in 83 overs when we say that “we are having the best batting lineup in the world”. Then why are they still depending upon the single person Sehwag? When he got out every one taught that we are going to loose this match so lets try to draw. That’s what happened at the end. When the bowler like Kumble couldn’t take a single wicket in this pitch does it that difficult to get 299? It was last game for Kumble in his home soil and at the end he couldn’t even satisfy anyone as a player or Captain. But he said that he did his part as captain. If at all I could have been in Kumble’s place after Sehwag got out I might have asked Sachin or Dhoni or Bhaji to get in and keep the run rate high. At least this might have changed Aussies game plan and they might have taught we are also ready for their challenge and they might be under pressure if we got some runs. Even if the person who might get out at the first ball couldn’t make a difference since we lost Dravid wicket earlier. May be that could have been an advantage for Dravid’s batting and I am sure he could have got some runs on the board as well on his own clock.

I would say the FAB four and Kumble are great players and they are mentally very weak as of now. They are going in very defensive mode and I am thinking if they keep on have this mentality it’s very difficult to draw this series itself. This is the great difference between India and Australia and almost the Aussies have won the match yesterday with lots of rookies in their team. Before this series starts every body says that Aussies are very young team, inexperienced and they are having only 4 players who have played test match in India. I am sure for the rest of the series nobody will speak about this.
I would like to congratulate Ponting for his brave decision and putting the great Indian batsman’s under pressure.

Till now Kumble didn’t do any impressive task as a captain except that some good communication earlier this year. At the end, though Sachin got 49 everybody started criticize him since he didn’t pass Lara’s record. I am confident that if we need output from sachin we have to through our captain out. May be we can give a chance to Ganguly for better ending of his carrier …. :-) He is the great captain that India ever had.

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