Sir Sachin Tendulkar 4

[littlemaster1982]

True LM. But all that I want is Sachin going out on a high. He has just two tests to redeem himself. If he doesn't perform well in that, I feel Sachin himself will take the plunge.

Every Sachin fan wants this, including me. However, it might not happen too, given his current form and slowing reflexes. He is not playing freely as he did two years ago. He is under lot of pressure and it's showing up in every dismissal of his.

[Arvind Srinivasan]

Let us wait till the end of the test series. Hoping for a turnaround not just for Sachin but also for the team.

[ajithfederer]

It will be the most horrible thing to see the English winning a Test series in India. It has only happened on two instances before Aus in 04(5th day in Chennai match made us lose that match) and SA in 2000(after the Fixing fiasco) since I started watching cricket. 2 Instances in 20 years of my cricket life. Steve waugh couldn't manage to win in 2001 when he named it the final frontier. He was right India is the final frontier and that was something I was very proud about all those years but looks like it is all in the wane. No team should win a Test series in India. There are only two guys in form in India that is Pujara and Ojha who are overused badly and the rest all are inexplicably out of form.

I think the time had already started to build the test team for the future of India. Everybody has a shelf life and its time to build a team for the future like when Ganguly/Wright started in 2000. Time to let go of everybody and start afresh. Dhoni if he loses this series should be sacked. No captain in world history has suffered 2 whitewashes and a home series loss. Ashwin bats better than him. More than that, I don't understand what he had in mind when he asked for spinning pitches when the Opposition team had two better spinners than us.

Tendulkar's average has dropped 2.30 pts from 56.94 to 54.60. I don't know what's wrong but I hope everything works for him soon or he will himself take the call. This is not what I intended but fate is cruel and we have to deal with it. I very myuch agree with LM on the posts he has made here. Hope he finds peace in life after cricket.

[Arvind Srinivasan]

Hard to explain Dhoni's insistence in getting turning tracks. Another track like this and we could face another defeat. These pitches hardly give any breathing space for the batsmen and with good spinners ,the indian batsmen can be found wanting. Reportedly Dhoni's asked for another turning track in Kolkota. Luckily the curator out there hardly dances to the tunes of the home captain. So hopefully we get a good wicket. Still remember Dhoni asking for a turning track in 2010 for the Kolkota test against SA only to be blatantly refused by the curator. We went on to win that test match.

[raajarasigan]

Welcome Back Feddy!! neenga illamA SA/AUS test series'kku thani thread kooda illa..

[scorpio]

Dhoni turning tracks kEttadhu got too much importance in the media. He also made some unwanted comments like- I dont want to even look at it on the Motera pitch after winning the match. Ippo Mumbai test thOthadhukku aprum, I want a flat bed-nna ellarum sirikka maattangaLaa? Adhudhaan, vEra vazhi illaama he is singing the same tune.

[Rangarajan nambi]

Ricky Ponting announces retirement. mAnasthar

[littlemaster1982]

You can do a better job at trolling Waterloo, sorry, Rangarajan Nambi!

[19thmay]

Ricky Ponting announces retirement. mAnasthar

I expected these kind of reactions from Anti-Sachin gang when Ponting announced his retirement. Neengellam ennaiku nalla vaartha pEsi irukeenga?

[selvakumar]