While watching yesterdays match I decided what the heading of my blog and what I will write, but after watching Uthappa’s batting and Indian win I have to change my mind. A win can wash all your bad decisions. As I wrote in my earlier blog, the captaincy of Dravid is not good enough; he cannot take right decisions. What wrong he has done in this match:
He should know that slog overs are being bowled by main bowlers and not by part time bowlers.
Ajit Agarkar should have been given one spell after 36 overs and again the last over, though he was expensive but you must rely on your main bowlers.
Zahir Khan should have been brought after 45th overs.
In the batting line up, Uthappa should have been sent ahead of Dhoni.
If India lost that match, it was due to Dravid’s wrong decisions and Dhoni’s batting.
Here is little brief on Dhoni’s Batting:
Technically he is not a good batsman. For quite sometime I have been watching him and found that he is not being able to take singles easily. Even if you bowl him on his leg he will play it straight. He does not have many shots, he plays away from his body, and therefore, he was struggling for the singles. When Dhoni came to bat India required less than 7 run per over and then it reaches at 10. How he scored his runs per ball 8(18), 13(22), 15(24), 18(28) and in the end 35(37). It shows that he was not able to pick singles easily; you can take singles without taking risks. But India won, and therefore, Dhoni’s inning was good.
Don’t take it that I am criticizing him, but I have written what he played. Now the finest part.. how we won:
As you know, when a team at 137/5 with run rate of 4.5, can reach upto 250 in 50 overs. But due to bad bowling and bad captaincy they reached 316. Now it was for the Indian openers to provide a solid start and marvelous start given by the openers Sachin and Saurabh. Though I have been criticizing Ganguly, because he was not making runs quickly in power play, but in this match he did well. Watching Sachin’s batting was marvelous, his strokes were amazing. His strokes on leg side were beauty. The bowl on off stump is dispatched for FOUR on square legs, amazing flicks. When the openers got out, India required run a ball and any good team in the world would have made that easily on this wicket, where the ball is coming nicely. You need patience. But as our Indian Team has a tendency of making match exciting, they did the same. They lost wickets on regular intervals.
When Dhoni came instead of Uthappa, I was surprised, b‘cos Uthappa is an opener and can take singles easily and blast whenever he wants. Anyways this young man was having something in his mind and he completed his task in style. When in the 49th over he got two boundaries, I suddenly got exciting by the memories of Net West Trophy final, where Kaif was hitting at the same stage when India required 325 to win. And in that match also the boundaries were coming from behind the wickets. Yesterday was amazing display of batting by Sachin and Uthappa. Congrats goes to the Indian Batsman.
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By Champ
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