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Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Yeah, feddy and the galling thing is if we suggest this now, it will be derided as hindsight. At that time he was riding on that 169 against a *good* Pakistani attack.
The trouble with that definition is that a *good* Pakistani attack on paper is not necessarily a *good* Pak attack in the field. It really is futile to judge people on performance *only* against Pakistan. The counter to this is everyone else failed and he lifter us from 69/4 but to me in a test match, the conditions and the bowlers are a bigger threat than the situation. Yuvraj can prosper in certain conditions and if he succeeds, be assured that those conditions have prevailed - he is not the kind to adapt to a difficult pitch or quality bowling. It was screaming obvious we needed Sehwag to open.
It was not just Yuvraj's expected failure but also that Dravid-Chopra opened to accomodate Yuvraj - that was really muddled thinking. Chopra-Sehwag worked because Chopra survived till Lunch and Sehwag usually took the score to 100+ by then putting pressure on Aussies. To believe that Chopra-Dravid, especially with Dravid reluctant to open as always, would give us a good start was really really stupid. And I said this before the event, too. I dont blame the team management alone because 90% of Indian Cricket followers found that logical at that time. Very few saw the alternative vision with Sehwag-Chopra opening and Yuvraj dropped. Sometimes, you have to drop the guy who scored 169 in the previous match to succeed in a place like Australia. That needs vision and Kumble didnt have it.
:lol: amaidhi amaidhi. I see it the way i viewed the WC final. "If only..." Final la adikkaadhadhunaala it doesnt make him a lesser God. That's not the point, illaya?
2003 Melbourne la Thala evvalo? Onniyume nyabagam illa :oops:
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Originally Posted by ajithfederer
2003 melbourne first ball duck or first over duck in the first innings. Caught down the leg side by gilchrist off lee.
2nd innings a 30 or a 40 nga, seria theriala.
But the annoying thing of 2003 melbourne was shewag smashed everybody :bow:. Even when sachin got out in the first day India were comfortably placed at like 320/4 or something. But then next morning a collapse and all out for 369.
Holding Sachin (or any batsman) responsible for not winning a series: Bowling ellam nalla pottu Sachin rendu innings layum sodhappirukkanum (Sachin-a mattum eppadi blame pannalaam ngaradhu oru pakkam irukkattum), illa reachable target chase pannumbodhu fail airukkanum... indha madhiri edhavadhu nadandhucha?
2003 melbourne
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/64061.html
2006 sa tour yeah may be sachin had some blame to take. He hit a 44 and 2 more 60's. That was the only tour to sa where thalai didnt hit a ton. He has hit a ton in every other tour before that. Even then we started by winning the first test lost the second and we had an upper hand in the 3rd test only to lose it.
Shewag in general has always played well against Aus. Onnu rendu innings sothapinalum he always blasts big against them. Only the last tour (2010) he didnt do much but that was just a 2 match series.
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Originally Posted by Plum
Aus series - we should have won in both times-nga. We were very unlucky. Me being the harshest Indian team basher naane solren. We were very unlucky in 03 not to win and in 07/
SA yeah - in 06/07 tendulkar had some blame to take. But he really tried hard in 2010 ; thanks to our bowling we just managed to draw the 3rd test.
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Originally Posted by Bala (Karthik)
"It was not just Yuvraj's expected failure but also that Dravid-Chopra opened to accomodate Yuvraj - that was really muddled thinking. Chopra-Sehwag worked because Chopra survived till Lunch and Sehwag usually took the score to 100+ by then putting pressure on Aussies"
Romba kaalama namma thinking is based purely on survival. Ball-a old aakkaradhu dhaan priority!