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Pilla Bewarse
Username: Codes
Post Number: 476
Registered: 05-2006
Posted From: 80.80.13.18
| | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 3:39 am: |    |
mama ee madya kalam anta into manchi fast bowlers vacharu mama.. zaheer etc.. kani cheda dobaru vallani.. 
No Code, NO Bug.. , Beware of me.. I am CODE'S'..  |
Proofdada
Bewarse ke Bewarse!
Username: Proofdada
Post Number: 39797
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 80.121.144.9
| | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 3:34 am: | |
andhukee mama...ee thread veesaa...vaadu chala baga cheppadu...neenu anukuntunnadi adee....kapildev tharuavtha attanti bowler nu yendhuku thayaru cheyyalekapoyaru inthe pedda country loo...bowlers can win test matches not batsmen....but manollu batsmen meedha depend avutharu dhanne moorkathvam antaaru... |
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Pilla Bewarse
Username: Codes
Post Number: 473
Registered: 05-2006
Posted From: 80.80.13.18
| | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 3:30 am: | |
//Dravid dropped the guard of diplomacy after the Antigua Test when he pleaded with the nation not to harbour hopes for express fast bowlers. The nation should take the hint and reconcile itself with tight finishes such as seen in Antigua. To win outside home, you need hustling pace not delicate flick of wrists by our Left-arm pacers.
It's the nature of youth to inspire hope. Millions of cricket fans are being fed on this diet. But India would never be a force in test cricket, not till Chappell's renewal of contract comes up for discussion next year; not till the indomitable Dravid is ready to say goodbye in a few years' time. We simply are not good enough as a bowling unit.
No Code, NO Bug.. , Beware of me.. I am CODE'S'.. |
Proofdada
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Username: Proofdada
Post Number: 39796
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 80.121.144.9
| | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 3:22 am: | |
dada kaneesam oka test match anna saev chesadu.... ....but seriously laxman name is missing... |
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Pilla Bewarse
Username: Codes
Post Number: 472
Registered: 05-2006
Posted From: 80.80.13.18
| | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 3:20 am: | |
gangu kooda ledu.. 
No Code, NO Bug.. , Beware of me.. I am CODE'S'.. |
Proofdada
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Username: Proofdada
Post Number: 39793
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 80.121.144.9
| | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 3:09 am: | |
>>But the value of experience is best understood if we remember that we haven't won a test in the last five years without a contribution from Sehwag, Dravid or Kumble.
potti peeru ledentabbaa |
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Pilla Bewarse
Username: Codes
Post Number: 464
Registered: 05-2006
Posted From: 80.80.13.18
| | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 3:05 am: | |
No Code, NO Bug.. , Beware of me.. I am CODE'S'.. |
Thingarodu
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Username: Thingarodu
Post Number: 11804
Registered: 04-2005
Posted From: 84.45.206.18
| | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 2:47 am: | |
I would Ignore or Avoid an Entity rather than Hating  |
Proofdada
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Username: Proofdada
Post Number: 39786
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 80.121.144.9
| | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 2:45 am: | |
St Lucia, June 8:
Indian captain Rahul Dravid means every word when he says the team is improving. Only, it's time we started winning.
Coach Greg Chappell rightly believes it takes time to pick up the nuances of Test cricket. But the boys would never do it if injuries and experimentation occur all the time.
The question must cross the mind of Indian cricketers as they arrived on Thursday in yet another island, to play yet another test match and most likely, produce yet another barren result.
It's the nature of youth to inspire hope. Millions of cricket fans are being fed on this diet. But India would never be a force in test cricket, not till Chappell's renewal of contract comes up for discussion next year; not till the indomitable Dravid is ready to say goodbye in a few years' time. We simply are not good enough as a bowling unit.
There has to be a reason why India hasn't won a Test series outside the sub-continent since 1986. It must concern us that we still turn to Anil Kumble for wins after a decade and a half. It must worry us that we couldn't beat a B grade England team at home or Pakistan escaped our noose in 2005.
Karachi, Bombay, Bangalore - the list is long. Antigua became the latest in this list on Tuesday. West Indies, somehow with two and a half wickets, survived the ordeal of final 20 overs.
We would never know if only Dravid had persisted with Virender Sehwag and Dave Mohammed, with his propensity to hit expansive drives, fallen for the bait. Somehow, in the flush of that nerve-racking finish, the influence of Dave Mohammed hasn't been fully understood.
We would never know if Irfan Pathan could have done any worse than what Sreesanth did on the second day. Or if Pathan and Harbhajan, with their experience, would have cut all escape routes for the hosts in the final hour.
There is a worrying tendency to discard experience and get seduced by the youth. Harbhajan, Pathan and Ajit Agarkar or Sreesanth, Munaf Patel and V R V Singh?
The Indian team seems to be making up its mind on the issue. But there is no guarantee that the shoe wouldn't be in the other foot in a few months' time. Again, the search would start for a new Sreesanth, Patel and V R V Singh. Oh, yes we have almost forgotten about Rudra Pratap Singh.
In the roller-coaster ride of international cricket, nothing sticks in mind for long. But the value of experience is best understood if we remember that we haven't won a test in the last five years without a contribution from Sehwag, Dravid or Kumble. Or, West Indies hasn't done any good without Brian Lara, Ramnaresh Sarwan or Chris Gayle coming to party.
The attention on our Test team wouldn't stay for long since we only play South Africa for three Test matches in the next 10 months. The two matches against Bangladesh, if they take place, count for nothing. The rest are only one-day matches.
One more year would have been added to India's barren run in Test series abroad.
Nobody cares to remember that a Mike Hussey or a Mark Waugh, or for that matter any seasoned Australian cricketer, breaks into the test team only after he has spent years harnessing his skills in the domestic fields.
Their latest fast bowling hope, Stuart Clarke, has only come in at the ripe age of 29 years. But we continue to revel in the excitement of newness while turning our back on durability.
Dravid dropped the guard of diplomacy after the Antigua Test when he pleaded with the nation not to harbour hopes for express fast bowlers. The nation should take the hint and reconcile itself with tight finishes such as seen in Antigua. To win outside home, you need hustling pace not delicate flick of wrists by our Left-arm pacers.
Therein hangs the tale. |
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