Can't believe it has happened again. I mean it is only India which can do such a thing but i wasn't expecting something like this from this particular team.
a few things which baffle me, rather i wanna debate about with someone.
why send pathan at no.3 when you have uthappa who is itching to get there, hasn't had a good time yet, is out of touch a bit and needs some batting practice. not doubting pathan's skills as a batsman, but he is not as good as Uthappa that no one can argue about. Also, Uthappa is chosen more as a bastman, infact only as a batsman and pathan has a dual role. half of which was accomplished brilliantly. taking 4 wkts giving away 41 runs only.
anyway, this was one point second is why were they playing as if it was a 20 20 match. why was uthappa in such a hurry that even though we had about 12 overs to go he went for the attack.
weren't the tailenders told about the bonus point that Australia could get if India scores less than 162. i mean it wasn't that we were asking munaf patel and Sreseanth to score 40 in 12 balls!!! this was highly ridiculous. we just gave away a bonus pt which could prove crucial in the long run.
suddenly after the first win against the mighty aussies we have let them come back and this is not good . as they say when you have a champion team down you pull them further down and not let them get up.
India will pay for it. Dhoni getting out could ve been the turning point but the batsmen who got out before him have to be blamed for it.
Sachin was unlucky, Gambhir played a horrible shot especially because he was the man in form and had settled down with a 34 off 42 balls. next to go was Rohit sharma, a bad shot. still can be expected because he was still getting settled. yuvi, out of form scratched around for 44 balls scoring 26. Uthappa gave up too soon scoring 18 in 36. Pathan was just a waist getting 18 off 30.
if so many of ur batsmen fail on one day you cannot expect to win. Let's be frank here, we know that yuvi is not going thru the best of forms, and uthappa is out of touch, so we need to keep in mind their failures and as the law of averages works - Rohit had scored runs in the last match, so i wasn't expecting him to do it this time. gambhir had not done it since his century and since he was quite consistent in the Twenty20 i thought he would like to maintain it here and cement his place in the side. unfortunately he failed to live up to his expectation.
Did not expect this from dhoni's team. I thought he was a fighter and his team is one too, but this time they gave in too meekly. hope this does not happen again. Really have faith in these players and i believe they can achieve what lot of indian teams haven't in the past. !!!
Go Team India Go !!!!!!
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