Srilanka in India

I agree. Hard to get this Indian line up out twice in the match especially on this track. All of India's top 7 will find a place in ANY test nation's batting line. India should not lose this one. It will probably tun more - but the slowness has made things considerably easier even when the ball has kept low. A boring draw and an average boosting test for the batters. Must say - such a disappointing crowd this.

Harbhajan wants a ton. Since he can't bowl, may as well bat him at 6. Even he could make 275 on this wicket. What a joke!? It's like the BCCI wants tests to be finished with ---- maybe they do?

Originally posted by zuhair_abbasi All of India's top 7 will find a place in ANY test nation's batting line.

Yuvraj Singh... finding a place in ANY test team!!! please stop joking Zuhair!

Although Sehwag is also good, I'll rather not have him in my test team... except for Sachin and Dravid none of them can claim that they can replace the likes of Ponting, Clarke, Smith, Chanders, Yousuf, KP, and the list goes on... and unless they are good enough to replace, they can never make it to ANY test team.

Gambhir is a good player but most of the time in test matches he has done well on flat and unresponsive tracks in India, recently we have seen that a little bit of movement and Gambhir's off stump is flying back till the wicket keeper... Sehawag is a hit and miss kind of player and again he has also scored those triple centuries and those big scores on very flat wickets... I'd even prefer someone like Phil Jacques or Alaistair Cook over him for test matches... for ODI's Yes, I'll have Sehwag in my team for sure.

Originally posted by sam_ahmed Originally posted by zuhair_abbasi All of India's top 7 will find a place in ANY test nation's batting line. Yuvraj Singh... finding a place in ANY test team!!! please stop joking Zuhair!Although Sehwag is also good, I'll rather not have him in my test team... except for Sachin and Dravid none of them can claim that they can replace the likes of Ponting, Clarke, Smith, Chanders, Yousuf, KP, and the list goes on... and unless they are good enough to replace, they can never make it to ANY test team.

you took it wrong mate. What I meant is that all of them will play for any test team if they were not playing for India. Would Australia not play Yuraj or Sehwag in their current set up? I guess they would.

Ont he match - it was really boring and an average booster for the batters. Must say that the bowling was not of that good standard either. Gone are those days when bowlers used to toil hard even on such flat tracks. Gimme the 90's test cricket any day.

Originally posted by zuhair_abbasi Originally posted by sam_ahmed Originally posted by zuhair_abbasi All of India's top 7 will find a place in ANY test nation's batting line. Yuvraj Singh... finding a place in ANY test team!!! please stop joking Zuhair!Although Sehwag is also good, I'll rather not have him in my test team... except for Sachin and Dravid none of them can claim that they can replace the likes of Ponting, Clarke, Smith, Chanders, Yousuf, KP, and the list goes on... and unless they are good enough to replace, they can never make it to ANY test team. you took it wrong mate. What I meant is that all of them will play for any test team if they were not playing for India. Would Australia not play Yuraj or Sehwag in their current set up? I guess they would.

Sehwag can be mesmerizing on his day. He can absolutely destroy a bowling attack on his day and can really flatten a teams confidence. The problem arises when his carefree attitude changes into a careless attitude. There's a very fine line between those two and that's exactly why Sehwag was dropped a couple of years back.

Good effort by the Indians to save the game although it was unnecessary to keep on playing until Sachin got yet another ton. The Lankans will have a lot of positives to look at but one must remember it was a dead pitch. Murali's form will also be a big worry for the Lankans. He really looked out of sorts.

India will really need to do something out of the ordinary if they want to win a test match. The batting looks alright but they really need to look at their bowling! Zak looked stiff and down on pace while Ishant was really wayward. Mishra got a taste of bowling against good players on a flat track while Bhajji really needs a shake up. That is not the performance once expects from the senior most bowler. I'd give Ishant a rest and bring the tempermental Sreesanth in!

Unneccessary to keep playing on Dips?  Surely you can't be as bad as Sangakkara?  I'd be massively disappointed if I was heading for a ton and my skipper called it off.  

Originally posted by milkman Will Murali make way for Mendis?

No way, they'll never drop Murali. I think they'll play Mendis ahead of Herath in the next game though.

IND will seriously consider playing Sreesanth ahead of Ishant. I cannot believe how quickly Ishant's bowling has gone this bad.


Edited by sam_ahmed - 20 November 2009 at 4:41pm

Ishant was over-rated from day one and they did not manage him well. He has played shed load of cricket. Every ODI, all that T20 circuses and of course the test matches. This has taken the toll on him.

Long list that. Nehra, Irfan, Munaf and Sreesanth. Only Zaheer has maintained his reputation to a fair extent.

I think Yuvraj's time has come in tests just like Gambhir.Now that his place is assured and his role is fixed, sam you will see Yuvraj excel in tests too.It not that he is a bad player of spin, someday he is bad player of spin thats it.

I still have serious doubts about Yuvi's abilities in test matches Raj. He has scored a 60 odd on a batting beauty which won't convince me... he'll have to prove himself under difficult situations.

I do agree with what Spin is saying but if you look at Pakistan, they have even flatter tracks, still they have been able to produce brilliant fast bowlers over the years. even at this stage the likes of Gul, Aamer, Asif etc, are top class pace bowlers.

IPL and these T20 leagues will do India no good that is for sure. Apart from players losing their quality, there is also a problem that foreign players are finding it very easy to acclimatise themselves in India because all of them are playing in the IPL and CLT20.

My point is that such a young Aussie team would never have found it so easy in India, the youngsters would have struggled to play in these conditions and wickets, but since most new players like Marsh, Henriques, Watson, White etc... had played in the IPL and CLT20 they found it very easy to get their feet in and the end result was a crushing defeat for India at home.

That is here my point is Spinny. Indian pacers suffer more because of the flat tracks because they are not as capable as Paki pacers.