Monday, June 15, 2009

Go short with India

In the last two matches of T20 world cup, Indian batsmen have been found wanting against aggressive pace bowling. West Indies and yesterday England used the same tactics to keep the Indian batsmen under check. Fidel Edwards slingy action means that his bouncers will skit from the turf and yesterday I thought all the England fast bowlers bowled really magnificently. They had a definite plan against the Indian batsmen and executed it to perfection. Raina is a wonderful player but showed his vulnerability against short pitch stuff. Ravindra Jadeja struggling for most part oif the innings meant that the run rate went out of reach for Dhoni and Yusuf Pathan who tried their level best but couldn't convert the defeat into victory.
Stuart Broad and Sidebottom bowled excellent overs in the end. Broad has a big heart to come back in such a manner especially after having bowled the last over against Netherland for a lost cause and in his last match against India Yuvraj singh hit him for 6sixes in an over.
I was watching the match with my friends and when 60 runs were needed of 30 balls i told them the Yuvraj's crucial miss field in the last over of Harbhajan could make the difference. In the end we lost by 3 runs. Some of the players looked relaxed (rather happy) even during the stages when India were down.Dont know if it means something.
Dhoni made a terrible mis calculation I guess when 9 runs were needed of 2 balls Yusuf hit the ball although there was only 1 in it they should have gone for the second run atleast we sould have had the chance of leveling the scores of the last ball. Also it was strange to see England booed at their home ground. As Collingwood said that incident meant no pre match motivational talk was required.
It was thrilling to watch the match nonetheless.

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