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.
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.
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