South Africa in New Zealand (2012)

Only blind Indian fans would say they missed Zaheer, Ishant, Yadav or Sehwag. BP and Sam are right it was SA b team as they were missing so many key players otherwise a score of 250 was very much possible.


Edited by mystery - 31 March 2012 at 11:16pm

Its really strange all i did was to agree with BP and Sam that SA were missing key players and Indian bowling is worst than BD's and anyone who thinks India missed Zaheer, Ishant, Yadav or Sehwag with their current form they must be blind.

Take it easy guys! All I can say is that India have gone down considerably in the last one year, one of the worst periods in Indian cricket history, and just when the expectations were very high.

Edited by sam_ahmed - 01 April 2012 at 9:05am

Infact all teams have suffered a bit , Eng unable to show anything of No 1 quality post becoming No1, Aussies struggling against WI.To an extent RSA has performed better than all others (but nothing great) , but then they too could not close the deal properly against NZ or win against the Aussies.

Edited by MalhotraRaj84 - 01 April 2012 at 4:03pm

For me reasons do not count BP, these things happens and are part and parcel of cricket. Infact when India toured England they had so many injuries during the match that they ended up playing 1-2 player short in the match a couple of times. Not counting the half fit players who came out of injuries straight into the match.Post world cup they have always been missing few key players in Tests/ODI's. (Forget about the selection and out of form issues of entire Indian middle order even in sub-continent).

So NONE of the reasons will count, India lost 4-0 to Eng and Aus and that is about it.

The point is, neither SA,ENG or AUS have shown any complete domination during the same period.While other teams can't even be considered for comparison (first let them come to the top 3/4 level... they are still far behind).

On SA T20 squad, only ABD is a regular who is missed (maybe 1 or 2 more), other than that RSA does not know what it's best T20I Squad is. For example Smith,Styen hardly play T20I. Philander last played his T20I way back in 2007's. Amala has not shown the same consistency in shortest format and still unproven, while Duminey is just back with a comeback.

So now injuries became a reason of Indian lost against England 
Can please someone tell me which key player apart from Yuvraj Singh in Odi was missing? and what about test? and Pakistan has not done badly even with so weak them infact they have done far better than few teams who have so many heavyweights and NZ batting lineup is strong it was really difficult to get a result on Wellington pitch inside 4 days even than it was only becuz of drop catches that NZ got away SA deserved to win the series 3/0 but was unlucky.

My statments were pretty clear to explain that I am not giving any reason (like others who always try to find a reason in loss), according to me loss is a loss. I never accept any reason.That has been my standards.

Edited by MalhotraRaj84 - 02 April 2012 at 6:27pm

I agree Sam Pakistan dont have a option of playing home which makes it even more difficult for them to do well still to not lose a series for almost 2 years is amazing that too with such a weak team without any star player apart from Ajmal and on other side India who have so many heavyweights still struggle to win a single match.