Bad Luck Tai Kharap

Tokai · #1 May 10, 2007, 08:55 AM

1. Mashrafee Getting injured. 10 extra runs + 2 extra wicket right there.
2. Plumbest LBW of the most crutial wicket not given. If Dhoni was not getting that live, we would have own by 100 runs.
3. Razzak missing the easiest ran out chance. He is usually a decent fielder but could not even catch the ball when needed most.
4. Suman not realizing the situation. Apparantly, he thought letting them have singles won't hurt as long as boundaries are blocked. He setted up fielding way too defensively at the middle when they cruised for 5/6 an over just by singles. He should have done more to stop them.

If any of the above 4 happened, we would have 2 out of 2 against India.

BANTigress · #2 May 10, 2007, 09:01 AM

yep i agree with u

cricket_dorshok · #3 May 10, 2007, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Tokai
4. Suman not realizing the situation. Apparantly, he thought letting them have singles won't hurt as long as boundaries are blocked. He setted up fielding way too defensively at the middle when they cruised for 5/6 an over just by singles. He should have done more to stop them.
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he is the dumbest captain in the cricket world. he doesn't have the 'grey materials' to understand the situation.

Rubu · #4 May 10, 2007, 04:45 PM

Yeah, his bowling change was decent today, but field setting was one of the worst I have seen from him. If he had tried to take some risk and stop the singles, we could win.

damalChele · #5 May 10, 2007, 05:28 PM

What do you say to those who say he won the SA in WC by being defensive? I didn't hear much criticism then. Is it then matter of luck? Sometimes it works for you and sometime it doesn't.

cricket_pagol · #6 May 10, 2007, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by damalChele
What do you say to those who say he won the SA in WC by being defensive? I didn't hear much criticism then. Is it then matter of luck? Sometimes it works for you and sometime it doesn't.

By being defensive, you have to wait for the opposition to hand over the game, which the South African's did. this works sometime... but if we want to win more frequently then the captain needs to be more proactive. If he was more aggressive in field settings then we would have won that game also.

On a different note, every game couple of chance goes down the slip with spinners on, but Hablu never brings in a slip fielder. At 149/5 if we are scared to bring some fielders in and create some pressue... we are just giving the opposition more chances. India took these chances with open arm!!!

damalChele · #7 May 10, 2007, 05:55 PM

I saw Dav Whatmore with a notepad after the game. Hope be does his homework with the team especially Bashar.

He is the captain and putting up with lot of pressure from the media and the fans. There were some key moments in the game. The run out and the plumb were the turning point of the match. Had they worked for us we would have won the game. The fans wouldn't have complained about Bashar's captaincy. Now we lost the game, it's all his fault. I think it's hard to please the fans really.

We win - everyone is happy. No fault whatsoever.
We lose - lets breakdown all the faults and blame someone.