India's Safari Tour ? - 1-0, S.A?

Question

South African's proved once again they are best in this business. Our responsible batsmen and bowlers did their job, but without any result. Yesterday's match whom you blame ?
1. Mr.Vengsarkar-Selector
2. Mr.Greg Chappel- Coach
3. Mr.Rahul Dravid - Captain.
4. Mr. Players

Answer 1

This achievement is a result of the joint effort by all of above, all really wants to keep their role best in this.
Vengsarkar being new in this team deserves less ( eventhough inclusion of Jaffer, a big blunder)-

What this Chappal & Dravid handle with our team, nobody understand.Their selection of final XI batting / bowling changes in each matches, nobody can digest.

Let us look about the recent stories.
After the continous failure of batsmen they never tried to shruffle the batting order according to their ability. They says to have done experiment with Pathan at no.3, that is not much a hilarious idea. Many punch hitters have been sent to these positions and been succesful for all teams. Even Chetan Sharma scored a century at no.3. So sending as Pathan as a punch hitter according to circumstances we can admit, but how we can consider him as a top order batsman..?
They never tried Dhoni at no.2 or 3, who can stay around and also go for big hits after being settled. Insted of Pathan they could have tested Dhoni Yuvraj or even Raina as one more chance. Since middle order batting collapsed worstly, Dravid had to get down upto no.5 or 6 followed by Sehwag.

In DLF cup Sreesanth was called back & he bowled well against WIndies & the next match he has been dropped.
Again in SA, Pathan & Sreesanth was included in the 1st match.After the match has been abandoned without a ball being bowled for the second match surprisingly both were omitted. At least 3-4 continous chance should be given for a player to evaluate his performance.

What way these guys are thinking, nobody knows. Then Y this consideration is not giving to substitute batsman for long time in place of Raina or Kaif.

On recent performance of Indian team, a rotation base experiment of players, ( as Australia did before & hence became the best) since we have numerous young talents as well as experienced ones.

The present Indian team is not bad, but the utilization of it is important. When they R replacing Sehwag it should be DKarthick who was succesful in one day games than Jaffer at domestic matches, and also a better competitor.

Bowling we have all are almost at same range, but in SA type of wickets it is better if they go for Saheer,Munaf, Sreesanth,Pathan & Kumble ahead of Agarkar & Harbajan.

However let us hope for the best in coming days...

Answer 2

I will defenitely blame the players. First of all, see how the play had progressed. South Africa were in a spot when they had lost 3 wickets. Kallis steadied the innings and stayed till the end.
After the initial breakthroughs, none of Indian Bowlers could create any impact on Jack Kallis. What can you say when an
experienced world class spinner like Harbajan Singh concedes 17 runs in one over. Similarly see the way South African Batsmen scored in the slog overs. This clearly goes to show the weak link in Indian Bowling as Indian Bowlers are not at all penetrative and contain the Batsmen.

Indian fielding was also below par and their fielding and return were very slow.

When India started batting, what was required to play with application and dedication without getting nervous looking at the total you hve to chase. An innings like Kallis played was the need of the hour. However, none of the Indian Batsmen could stick to the task against some accurate and hostile bowling of South Africa.

It is time players analyse their performance independently and find out where they have gone wrong and come out strongly in the next match.

Answer 3

All of them!

The selector is to be blamed because he did not keep five bowlers. In a bouncy track, he could have kept Pathan.
The coach, Chappell(Chappal) must be blamed because he didn't keep proper training for the batsmen and the jinx continued.
The captain, Dravid is always a wishy-washy guy who depends 100% on the coach and his ideas and doesn't care about captaincy. He might be a 'Mr. Dependable' in batting but a 'Mr. Dependant' in captaincy. He kept the spinners at the wrong time.
The players, of course. None of them batted well. After knowing the bounce in the track, they didn't play shots on the back foot. Seamers didn't make use of the bounce much either.

Answer 4

No one to blame. I only blame Mr. Ganguly for opting for
Mr. Chappel to be the coach of India. Had Mr. Chappel not there as coach, Mr. Ganguly would have been in the team as captain and India would have been in the winning.

Answer 5

i blame 4th mr.players