England's B's sting India and how! - India 212 England 213/7.
Phenomenal effort by Bopara and Broad to see England through after they were tottering at 114/7 at one stage. Great composure, great match sense, a wonderfully paced innings by the B's reminiscent of India's performance at Lords in 2002.
Which stands in stark contrast to India's efforts.
India needs to urgently address our approach to the shorter version of the game.
We lose wickets and decide to down the shutters. We don't lose wickets and choose defense to be the best form of attack.
A half decent partnership comes about and our body language goes to the dogs. We knock a few wickets quickly and think the job is done.
We choose 7 bats because we don't trust 6 to do the job.
We choose 5 bowlers because we believe 4 cannot deliver.
We exude great energy and confidence at the start of the game but are flat by the time the 50th over rolls by.Individuals lose focus of the match situation, the team loses sight of the ebbs and flows of the game.
Bottomline - We are not hungry enough.
And now, all of that has been brought front and center by two kids who did everything right under tremendous pressure.
Kudos Bopara and Broad - you wanted it more and you deserve it.
PS:-
Here is the silver lining though - we lose at Headingley and suddenly the pressure is off - both to win the series and to play known quantities.
Which means that we should expect Rohit Sharma and Robin Uthappa get atleast 2 ODIs to display their wares.
8 comments:
We were ridiculous and not worthy to win. We are a joke on the game of cricket. I have never seen Team play so ridiculously since 1986 when I started following cricket.
i am drained and short of words. After all how much we are to nag and moan about the team compositions and all that.
Expect a 7-0 rout from Australia.
Rohit Sharma in place of KKD
OR
Ganguly at 3, at Uthappa to open...
Tubby... did you watch the 2000 Australia tour? :)
Yes very much. I still remember it very well. Anything about it you like to tell me ?
Love the B sting! Kudos Homer! :)
:) Soulberry
homer wat about todays match ?? Wat will happen ??
homer,
there seems to be some conspiracy against robin singh coz since the time i am following our team i have never seen so much of "consistency" in fielding...
in sri lanka and other teams too seniors are leading the pack by showing their commitment to the fielding aspect but i guess nobody can touch our seniors they just turn up in practice to make numbers do their own drills and off they go to pick their bats...this is what i feel is happening...
we were never great fielding side but this series should take the cake of being worst contested on field and its just not short of miracle that we are still in this series. which goes to show how "good" is england team against all praise being showered on them by English media...
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