Let me reiterate this is not the end of world. And this is certainly not the repeat of 26 March 2007 when India crashed out of World Cup. Its just T20.. We would have chance next year in West Indies. And I dont hate MS for this. Some of us would do esp those who hail from Chennai. There are going to be brick bats against him from likes of Raj or company who are gonna criticise MS. But then we shud understand he is a human and prone to mistakes.
Some reasons from my end why we lost :
- Non stop cricket : India have been playing since Sri Lanka 2008 series. Tests, ODIs and then IPL. IPL was the final straw in the coffin. It saw a fatigued outfit play in the world t20. Injuries to key players like Viru and Zaks, false dawns for likes of Mr Useless, Suresh Raina and DK. Fresh ideas didnt come and even if they did they dint succeed.
- Media : Media in India is ass. They showed smoke when there was no fire. Virender Sehwag vs MS controversy was uncalled for. Even if Sehwag didnt inform team about the injury, i care two hoots. He is too good a player to be missing from a tournament like this even if its a T20.
- Missing Sehwag
- Slow batting : In super eights major hitters of the game played slow and low. Strike rates were similar to ODIs and thats why Indians lost. Gambhir, MS and Raina never clicked. if they did they were too slow.
- Poor fielding : You cannot expect tired cricketers to field well and today that cost us our title.
- Overconfidence in Mr Useless : Goddamn this is national team. This is not IPL. 2 or 3 good innings in IPL doesnt mean you are good to open for your country in a world series. And when you lack the temparament and you are overrated, this happens. 2 okish innings in warm-ups (Pakistan) and one 50 vs Ireland made people think Mr Useless is replacement for Sehwag. Mr Useless showed how fucked up he is when he got out cheap to freakish shots against stronger teams. Time to dump this man.
- Poor mid over bowling : Ishant Sharma could be a good Test bowler but he is not a good T20 bowler. And this is a fact. Blame it to KKR or blame it to his Test mode, the Delhi dude isnt a T20 material as of now.
Time to look beyond Rohit Sharma, Ishant Sharma and Irfan Pathan in T20. Rohit Sharma isnt a talented guy. Lets accept the fact. He could be a star of IPL, be a part of defending champs Deccan Chargers, but when he plays for India, he is an ass. Worst part is he doesnt learn from his mistakes. Doesnt matter if he plays for Mumbai or Madras or Melbourne, he doesnt perform, he doesnt get in.
MS is a natural victim for criticism. And people would be ridiculous in criticising him. They would blame him why was DK not played. May be media would reel him. "Luck and honeymoon" have ended for him. But still he remains the best man to lead India. I think IPL should have been shortened or scrapped. But then money power. Isnt it.
Next assignment for India is CT and India are in red hot ODI form. They should take a well deserved break now and get freshen up for the CT and the home Test series against SL followed by West Indies.
Its disappointing loss, but its not the end of road. Certainly its not 26/3/2007. Arm Ball would be alive and would continue to be behind Team India and its skipper MS. I now favor SA to go win the tourney. Semi finalists : SA, WI, Pak/NZ, SL.
England would anyway join Australia and India on Tuesday night. Time for madness in Indian media, Indian blogs (few) and few commentors.....
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Why India Lost?
There's a one line answer for this.
"To teach a lesson to brainless self proclaimed cricket expert bloggers like you. To bring down your floating ego level, to where it really deserves to be".
I've told you not to jump too much up and down, when India won the series against Sri Lanka. In cricket, there are nothing taken for granted. There are no "invinsible" teams. You just acted as a joker, and ridicule yourself and entire Indian team on your blog. Now you get the return!
Now, don't preach us "It's just Twenty20 cricket". If T20 is not so serious, why were you so proud of being the champions of 2007?
Now tell me, who's house are you going to set on fire? is it M.S. DOS's hous or Yuvraj's house? That's how you guys normally react to defeat, hai na?
You were right. This is not the end of the world. This is the beginging of India's downfall!
Granted, Sam it is not end of the world but seeing Team India finding new ways to stuff up is not pleasant.
Whatever was Dhoni thinking when he was taking twos and keeping Yousuf away from the strike in the dying moments of the game.
From following your blog, I can see that you have a tendency to gloss over MSD's shortcomings as a batsman and captain (and also have a bone to pick with his franchise's fans - unjustified IMHO since MSD made similar tactical errors in IPL2 too)
One can trot out all the excuses - non stop cricket, media and all that, but bottomline is this 'young, fearless, new age 'team was caught with its pants down - both technically and tactically.
voice of colombo, i m not going to answer you if you continue your hatred here.
We will see if india falls or rises of this defeat. if i had my way i wud burn ur house first for spitting venom out here.
u r unwelcome here. i hope u get my message dude...
Late Inswing,
MSD is for sure better batsman than YP. Its just that his form has deserted a bit. A break now would do a world of good to his batting. And one is always better than 2....
no doubt that MS made some tactical mistakes. Who is refusing. my point is dismissing him totally is pointless. and when india would start winning again come september CT, he would be back in good books.
all said and done, this was a loss not to be taken so seriously.
LOL! I'm scared :-)
I hear the tone of a kindergarten kid who's annoyed with a disturbing neigbour, when you spelled that.
Face the truth! Don't try to escape it.
Really :). i see you as a mentally ill blogger who has trouble in everything under the sun. seems you were really hit hard in your younger days.
i sympathize with you that you lost all your sanity man.
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