August 15, 2015
Well, want to know what the attacking approach has yielded India today against the Lankans!!
There were several matches under MS where we got to situation similar to that of yesterday's second session when they lost Sanga & Matthews. After which we used to leak runs and face a defeat similar to today's case. Those days comments would be like MS was defensive hence we lost!! But what happened now?
In fact, those who know me well that I'm a MS fan might think I was waiting for this to happen. India to face a defeat under Virat!! No not at all even I like Virat's approach and to be fair it is a brave decision to go with 5 bowlers strategy outside India. But irrespective of the captaincy the problem which we had/have is we don't have a bowler with that killer instinct to knock out a partnership. Specially the tail-enders like what other countries have.. Steyn,Jimmy etc. so unless we have a quality bowler we cannot win overseas be it under MS or Virat!!
Lastly the worst critic on MS was he cornered Harbhajan Singh and didn't give him opportunities intentionally. Those who saw the match and the way he bowled would have got the answers for that comment!! He bowled last evening on the same pitch where Herath bowled today!! Maybe he is doing better in shorter forms but not at all in longer format. Looking for a better performance from Team India in second test.
Well, want to know what the attacking approach has yielded India today against the Lankans!!
There were several matches under MS where we got to situation similar to that of yesterday's second session when they lost Sanga & Matthews. After which we used to leak runs and face a defeat similar to today's case. Those days comments would be like MS was defensive hence we lost!! But what happened now?
In fact, those who know me well that I'm a MS fan might think I was waiting for this to happen. India to face a defeat under Virat!! No not at all even I like Virat's approach and to be fair it is a brave decision to go with 5 bowlers strategy outside India. But irrespective of the captaincy the problem which we had/have is we don't have a bowler with that killer instinct to knock out a partnership. Specially the tail-enders like what other countries have.. Steyn,Jimmy etc. so unless we have a quality bowler we cannot win overseas be it under MS or Virat!!
Lastly the worst critic on MS was he cornered Harbhajan Singh and didn't give him opportunities intentionally. Those who saw the match and the way he bowled would have got the answers for that comment!! He bowled last evening on the same pitch where Herath bowled today!! Maybe he is doing better in shorter forms but not at all in longer format. Looking for a better performance from Team India in second test.
