Yes, we lost very badly once again! It was a shameful performance by our team! Our team is going through a big transition period, with all the great players retired! All the players were playing 5 match series for the first time! The players were getting tired and most of them admitted that! Our most experienced bowler was 50 test matches old! Taking into account all these things, our bowlers did a decent job! Bhuvi was brilliant in first half of the series! Actually Vijay and Rahane were good as well (they were fresh then)! Murli Vijay's leaves outside the off stumps were admirable in the whole series, he was the only one along with Rahane who really looked like they wanted to stay there and score runs! Apart from them Ishant Sharma's bouncy spell at Lord's was just too good wfor the hosts!! And after that the things turned around! Ishant got injured, Jadeja vs Anderson spat came into light and downfall of our team started!
But from my point of view the real turning point of the series would be the dropped catch by Jadeja of Cook in third test match, it was an easy chance, the debutant Pankaj Singh would have got a boost, Cook would have got his confidence back that he got after scoring 70 odd runs... The slip fielders and the keeper has many let downs in this series, fielding of our team has been below par, considering a pretty young bunch of people. The things have gone and they will not come back!
Hard decisions should be taken now! As Ganguly, Wasim Akram, Nasir Hossein were saying, Indian young lads like Rahane, Pujara, Kohli should make up their mind and go and play one full county season! It is a hard toil, they will get the exposure that they require and will be able to play in any kinds of situations (Ganguly, N.Hosseins opinions on Air)!
Questions are being raised on MS Dhoni's captaincy records outside subcontinent. He was a lone warrior if we talk about his batting, but he never looked comfortable in the middle, he showed lot of resistance and made some runs. But Yes, now I also feel that Dhoni should be hanging his captaincy shoes now (For Test matches)! But when you look at the players, you will find that there is no one to take the Test Captaincy as of now! Captain in making Virat Kohli is struggling for his own form, Gambhir's career seems to be ending, Rohit Sharma is yet to make his mark in Tests, who else can Captain the side then? Due to lack of resources I don't think that Dhoni will hang his shoes (I strongly believe if he has a option he should hang his shoes now)!!
Our players certainly have the ability to play better than this and I am sure they will play better in near future! They have let all of us (the true supporters) down but They will make us proud once again!
All the best!!!
But from my point of view the real turning point of the series would be the dropped catch by Jadeja of Cook in third test match, it was an easy chance, the debutant Pankaj Singh would have got a boost, Cook would have got his confidence back that he got after scoring 70 odd runs... The slip fielders and the keeper has many let downs in this series, fielding of our team has been below par, considering a pretty young bunch of people. The things have gone and they will not come back!
Hard decisions should be taken now! As Ganguly, Wasim Akram, Nasir Hossein were saying, Indian young lads like Rahane, Pujara, Kohli should make up their mind and go and play one full county season! It is a hard toil, they will get the exposure that they require and will be able to play in any kinds of situations (Ganguly, N.Hosseins opinions on Air)!
Questions are being raised on MS Dhoni's captaincy records outside subcontinent. He was a lone warrior if we talk about his batting, but he never looked comfortable in the middle, he showed lot of resistance and made some runs. But Yes, now I also feel that Dhoni should be hanging his captaincy shoes now (For Test matches)! But when you look at the players, you will find that there is no one to take the Test Captaincy as of now! Captain in making Virat Kohli is struggling for his own form, Gambhir's career seems to be ending, Rohit Sharma is yet to make his mark in Tests, who else can Captain the side then? Due to lack of resources I don't think that Dhoni will hang his shoes (I strongly believe if he has a option he should hang his shoes now)!!
Our players certainly have the ability to play better than this and I am sure they will play better in near future! They have let all of us (the true supporters) down but They will make us proud once again!
All the best!!!
