Last wicket partnership of 170 and still going on :banghead:
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Last wicket partnership of 170 and still going on :banghead:
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From a fb page called Srini Mama
The most exciting passage in today's play was not on pitch, but in the commentary box.
Harsha: Alright Rahul! You've been doing some impish calculations checking up some numbers!
Rahul: I was just trying to figure out the numbers of overs I gave to Ganguly and Sachin, as captain! Maybe, underbowled Ganguly there and Sachin had more test wickets.
Sourav: Yes he always did that!
Harsha: Sachin had more test wickets than Ganguly? (Naradhar tone)
Sourav: Sachin bowled half of his overs in India.
Harsha: I like the way you are sticking to your territory
Sourav: Imagine Day 5 pitches in India in those dustbowls! So he had more going for him than me. Wish I knew how to bowl spin .
EVERYONE LAUGHS!
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They dig up the numbers
In 2007:
Sachin: 38 overs, 1 wicket: 4 Economy
Ganguly: 28 overs, 2 wickets: 2.3 Economy
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Sourav: Those were on flat batting pitches. Look at the economy at which I have bowled! You need some skill to do that.
Rahul: Sanjay said that, if Sourav was a yard faster & a little bit fitter, he would have been a match winner with the ball.
Sourav: I wish I was the Prime Minister for India. I would have done much more.
Harsha: This is some serious sledging. Ah come on Rahul, don't be a good boy here!
Sourav: In the Trent Bridge test in 2007, a famous Indian win, at a point in time, England were going in at 6 runs per over. Ask Rahul, whom did he fall back to?
Harsha chuckles
Rahul: I am not denying that, absolutely not! I just made the point that if Sourav didn't get tired after 5 to 6 overs, I would have made him bowl longer spells.
Harsha & Rahul chuckle together!
Sourav: I would request the production team to check my spell in that match and do the judgemet here.
Rahul: And the speeds as well!
Sourav: 10 overs on the trot. 1 for 15. (Rahul and Harsha keep laughing)
Sourav: I have seen biased people! But not as much!
Harsha: One thing is for sure Rahul! He knows his numbers.
Rahul: I have never doubted that!
Sourav: Must have been happy that he had a player with intensity in his team. Player who cared for numbers, cared for the game.
HB: I get the fact why he under bowled you now Sourav! When you were the captain, you made him keep wickets!
Rahul laughs and says stop it Harsh!
Sourav: More than me the team needed that. And we were a better team after that. Meanwhile, here we are, still struggling to pick that final wicket. 461/9.
what a fanstastic and memorable innings from bhuvi :bow: .. 2 - 50's and 1 - 5 wkt haul :clap: rare in test history
binny way to go :thumbsup: fantastic debut :)
One more from the same page:
Nasser Hussain : Wen can i see India playing in a football world cup ? *giggles *
Harsha bhogle : Its better not to participate rather than getting knocked out in the first round
Ganguly : If India had played world cup football for 50 years then they would have qualified for the finals at least once unlike England
Come on Dhoni, do something or step down from test captaincy !!! I know you dont have good bowlers but allowing Anderson to get man of the match for his batting skill is nothing but shame. I dont know whether you are defensive or not, but if a team has been losing matches from good position then it has to be something wrong with captain. First SA, then NZ and now in England.
Indha series la nambikkaiyae poiruchu :(.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dhoni
Cook's captaincy isn't a benchmark. Cook is as bad as Dhoni, if not worse, when it comes to defensive captaincy. How many times have we seen this? Slipping from an easy win to a draw or loss? From the top of my head, 1) Kallis and Boucher denying us a series win in SA, 2) Broad in Trent Bridge test last tour and 3) BMac scoring a 300+ when it looked like we would win in a canter.
I have always seen Dhoni letting the game out of our grasp, when things doesn't go in his way. He just waits for things to happen. We have been winning test series on the back of our batting might. Once our batting stalwarts lost form/stopped playing, Dhoni has got nowhere to hide.