Tri Series in Zimbabwe

The tri series in Zimbabwe involving India and Srilanka has already begun.

India played 3 rubbish medium pacers and paid the price. Seriously, even that batting --- they were 3/60 until Sharma came to the rescue. India has such a large pool of players and such a large percentage of the population playing cricket but there are few natural talents.It's hard to fathom why next door in Pakistan they have pacer after pacer bowling 145kph plus with movement both ways, but India can't even nurture one talent. It must be down to genetics... I know a lot of the population of Pakistan ethnically comes from the west, Persian, Ottoman and Arab descendancy... these people are known for being strong. Indians are lacking that strength I think.

Actually I disagee! For real, how many top quality FAST bowlers have India produced? Dev , Srinath and Zaheer Khan are the only ones of repute who consistently took wickets and were able to shake up batsmen at times. Even then, Dev wasn't that lively and Khan's emergence has only been in the last couple of years. Ishant Sharma has the height and pace to trouble the best, ask Ponting, but he has ZERO rhythm.

Originally posted by mystery Where are you Raj?? This is another prove of how weak Indian bowling is this is India's Bench strength?

I am always here Mystery, but I don't understand why you get so much exicted every now and then when India loses a match.Get this clear one match or one series does not say anything. One more thing, even if this Indian team manages to win the tournament, It would not mean that our bench strength is the best , and if it looses (We Indians will never crib saying it was second string team or whatever, we don't crib) it does not mean they are have the worst bench strength.

Originally posted by mystery Where are you Raj?? This is another prove of how weak Indian bowling is this is India's Bench strength?

  Rohit played few very good knocks of late. Did I post about him being how good or how great his innings were?.

Originally posted by milkman Yes, 5 foot tall Sachin smashes the biggest sixes in the world because he is super strong. You're a clever one Raj...

and to add to taht  Brett Lee and Shoaib Akthar(Express fast bowers) are stronger than Symonds and Pollard (slow medium) .

Originally posted by MalhotraRaj84 Originally posted by milkman Yes, 5 foot tall Sachin smashes the biggest sixes in the world because he is super strong. You're a clever one Raj... Do you know something called "Cutting your strokes" to prolong your career in cricket?

You missed my point. You can hit the ball far, long and hard and not be a Hayden or Symonds. A big bat and super timing, with a good eye and technique and you can hit big sixes............. just like Sachin has for 20 years.

Wasim, Waqar, Shoaib, Imran, Zaheer Khan, Zahid, Aamer.... all Muslims who have meat diets and many of those are Pathans or other Afghan/Persian related ethnicities. I definitely think there is a correlation between the ethnic background and performance, it's in the DNA. Fastest sprinters are Black, best long distance runners from Ethiopia, Kenya (East Africa) and Berbers from Morocco.... best gymnasts from Eastern Europe... best weightlifters from Turkey and Iran. It's genetics mate.

Now you would even say brain is genetic , and credit Indians very intelligent coz they are genetically intelligent.Come on , get real! and give some creidt to hard work mate.For any feild you need hard work and dedication.That's it.

Chasing 243 , Indian team is 55-2.Sharma and Kohli playing.Raina,Yousuf and Jadeja yet to come. I feel Kohli and Sharma have to play very well and put up a decent partnership otherwise it might get tougher and tougher for India.

I fear Jadeja and Yousuf (and the rest to follow , actually nothing much ) capable of constantly negotiating Randiv and Mendis spin wizardry for a sustained period of time till the end,so it could get tricky.

Get along with the cricket tri-series mate. No more Rohit discussions please.

Edited by MalhotraRaj84 - 30 May 2010 at 1:55pm

Originally posted by MalhotraRaj84 Get along with the cricket tri-series mate. No more Rohit discussions please.

Originally posted by mystery Originally posted by MalhotraRaj84 Get along with the cricket tri-series mate. No more Rohit discussions please. I never said anything about Rohit you started it.

Yes, what I meant to say was, give time to put your point across with solid results measured over a concrete period of time. I will definately talk about Rohit, but only after he gets a consistent go in Indian team at the order he is suitable.He is a number #4 player or above that.He will get his consistent chance in couple of years.Maybe that is the time we will sit back and analyze him.

NZ,SL,BD,SA make 4 teams , India palyed with them.So it means leave 5 out of 9 main teams.Now who are the remaining four teams ?

Edited by MalhotraRaj84 - 30 May 2010 at 2:36pm