Indian Cricket Team - Back to being a one man army ??

Is the Indian ODI Cricket Team slowly becoming what it was when Sachin Tendulkar was at his best ?

Those days, for opposition teams, the motto was 'Get Tendulkar out early" to win against India.Pure & simple.

There is a similar pattern being played out post Tendulkar's retirement these days.

Only difference, it's now Virat Kohli who has taken over that hot seat from Tendulkar.

The other so-called hugely talented young Indian batsmen are just not standing up to the challenge, atleast for the time being as can been in the on going India vs New Zealand ODI series.

Hope Kohli continues to do well.

More importantly, hope others also will start to do well.

This is especially important because Indian team relies very heavily on their batsmen to win matches.

The bowling remains as pathetic as ever.Hopelessly so..!


Update : 11:58 am 25/01/2014 : 
I guess I jinxed Kohli.He just got out for a lackluster 6 off 20 balls, in the 3rd ODI between India - NZ.He never looked comfortable in the crease.That's the way it goes :)


Update : 2:48 pm 25/01/2014 : 
Ok, well, well, well. The match is a tie.Both teams scored 314.
For India, it was Ravichandran Aswin and Ravindra Jadeja who pulled off this sensational tie.India needed 18 off the last over with only one wicket remaining.Jadeja managed to tie the game.


Probably, these 2 updates have taken away the focus away from the main content of the blog.But these 2 updates should reinforce the fact that the top order batsmen still continue to fail, what with the tie achieved by Ashwin, Jajeda and ofcourse Dhoni's 50s.

Upcoming 2014 Loka Sabha elections..

2014 Loka Sabha elections are nearing. Seems BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi is way ahead and could be the next PM of our Country..

God knows whether him becoming PM will be good for India, given his known anti-minority mentality..

He may have done lot of development in Gujarat post the riots, but that won't erase his and his party's role in the riots..

I guess fringe lunatic organisations like VHP, Bajrang Dal etc are waiting for him to be PM to once again raise those old contentious temple, article 370, uniform civil code issues..

A modern India does not need to get bogged down by these lunatic issues..

We need to look ahead and continue to move in the path of progress..

Modi says the last 10 years of the current UPA government was a wasted opportunity. So let's hope, if at all he becomes PM, he will drive the Nation in the right direction and not pull it back towards anarchy.. 

Kejriwal - The politician

Delhi CM and Aam Admi Party (AAP) founder had earlier said that those who are MLAs won't contest Lok Sabha elections..

Yesterday he is saying, if the party tells him to contest, he will contest Lok Sabha polls, even though personally he does not want to be PM!

3 things here,  one is the obvious U turn from his earlier stand.

Second is he will contest if the party asks.. That is amusing. It's his party, he surely has a voice, say 'I do not want to contest' .

Fix Delhi first.

3rd is him saying he is not interested to be PM. He said the same thing before becoming Delhi CM...

Stick to your word Sir, else you will loose credibility.. I don't have anything against you becoming PM, but the continuous U turns worries everyone..

I have some friends who are AAP supporters, who are getting disillusioned with the way AAP is now. The arrogance displayed by your party members in channel discussions is strange and amusing..

You people seems to be becoming 'politicians' very fast..