Geoff Boycott

People like Geoff Boycott continue to live in their old fascinating world of Yorkshire which has not produced a quality cricketer for England since Darren Gough and for them they continue to believe that anything Indian is superficial.

Denial is always harmful as  you cannot accept the truth.

Boycott is skeptical of Sehwag's true value and doesnt believe India is # in Tests.

India loses to SL for one just reason

Usual suspects are back and the usual results -- losses are back.

Why even Yusuf Pathan, the duck king is playing. Dhoni is bit too fascinated over this guy's IPL 1 pyrotechniques.

Long gone. Time to think beyond him and of course Rohit Sharma.

Fresh blood and fresh youngsters in T20 and then sneak them to ODIs.

A good article on Strauss

http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/436402.html

A very good article on how Andy Strauss turned the tide for himself.

Twenty Twagon begins

today in a schedule which would see India playing just 2 tests in next 6 months thus fuelling its critics that it doesnt take Tests serious any more.

Thats not true.  India has  toured every test playing nation in last 3 years. Windies in 2006, England in 2007, SA in 2006, Australia in 2007-08, Pakistan in 2006, SL in 2008 and NZ in 2009.  The cycle starts soon next year when India tours Saffa.

Back to the Twenty 20, the campaign today would be the beginning of the mission to get the crown back in 2010.

SL may be the finalists of the last campaign, but today they stand bruised and battered.

Good thing for them is that Slinga Linga returns.

Bad thing for them is Murali doesnt play T20.

Good thing for India is Gambhir returns.  Bad thing is that Rohit Sharma returns along side Suresh Raina, the 2 lads that live the life T20 way.

SL are bruised team right now. Sangakara is a tired man. He has spoke enough on how his team lost. I promise that after the 2nd T20, he would not have any thing more to speak and by the end of the ODIs (1-4) he would go with tape on his mouth.

Windies need to declare asap

Australia's record of 9 wins against Windies at home since 2000 wont be broken since today morning WI are playing Sri Lankan brand of cricket. They are looking for a safe score on a pitch where the highest score made in 4th innings was 233 in recent years.

Gayle has been keeping restraint when he has to go all out in Sehwag way.

If Windies declare and ask Australia to chase 335 odd runs and lose, they would be brave. But if they score 360 odd runs and fall short of a victory, they would be called cowards.

History is beckoning them and now its upto them how they take it.

Turning point for Indian victory

The turning point of the series was the runathon of Lankans in the first test when they went for another record and in the process gave away chance to put pressure on under confident and tired Indians and bowl them out.

After that to save the game, VS scored a 50, Lankans dropped him, VS moved on with scoring 100 and a 200 and Lankans kept cribbing over those decisions which they thought were theirs.

They never recovered and Indians went all over the place thumping the minnow bashers 2-0.

This is the 3rd successive series win for India at home when they haven't dropped a single Test. 

SL cribs on the number of Tests they play and on the FTP. Who schedules their tours ? They frequently tour to Bangladesh and host them in the search for easy records.  And when they lose to the strong teams, they crib citing that they dont get to play in strong teams that often.

Count number of times they have travelled to BD since 2002 and how many times they have gone to SA. They played a 3 Test series in Australia in 1995-96 and since then have travelled just 2 times in 2004 and 2007 for 2 Test series.

Problem of priorities ?

UDRS

World opposes it. Sangakara wants it cos thats what he feels could win the Tests and save the cost on the runs. Nobody except this loser have asked UDRS to continue.

Sangakara speaks crap

as expected on his series loss. The UDRS he says should have been there and as per him that would have made the difference. He is a sore loser. He is good enough to beat minnows and then do a war cry loud and high on the roof top speaking how good team he has only to find thumped royally next time he goes out of the docile lands of SL stadiums which are tailor made to suit Lankan spinners.

"The decisions cost us over 500 runs and put us under a lot of pressure. Had the DRS been there, it might have been different. All other Tests sides are using the review system. This series didn’t have it and it was certainly a handicap"

What the heck his good bowlers were for ? Keeping to cry over those decisions that did not come to him, does he have guts to challenge the likes of Kulasekra, Walagedra and Muralitharan to check their strategies and their failures ? The failures of Samarweera, himself, Blabba king and so forth ? Go find answers for the loss in your team man!!

Stop speaking your shit.

"But not to have the review system when every other side in the world is using the review system, it becomes an extra handicap and it cost us quite a huge amount of runs in the last two Tests.

"This series is probably the best advertisement for having the review system when decisions cost us over 500 runs and a lot of wickets."

UDRS was the sole reason for the 26 wkts Mendis got last year and there after he has been nullified.   Good teams take the negative decisions their stride and then further create opportunities. What did Sangakara's team do ? Nothing. played negative brand of cricket which their forefather, the fat man taught them.

 

This team should not be invited to play any cricket in India. They are the brand of negative cricket all over the world.

 

And Mahi hits it rt on the nail :

 

"The system has its own advantages and disadvantages. If we were at the receiving end, I would say its not good. At the same time if your spinners get wickets because of the review system you tend to be on its favoured side. "

 

Grow up Sangakara and SL.