Final - India v Sri Lanka, (06 April 2014) Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur

[phoenixdesi]

Re: Final - India v Sri Lanka, (06 April 2014) Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur

@Southie

That precisely is the problem nowadays. Leadership without imagination that passes for strategy. Only 8.5 overs to go, and we need to build? This kind of negative thinking makes Misbah and Dhoni mirror images of each other. This overemphasis on building. Blocking. And then going for broke with 5 overs to go.

If you ran a long distance event like that you get ur ash handed to you.

Anyone following the game knew BEFOREHAND that Yuvi is not in good form. I was against his inclusion before this game. With 15 over to go it makessense to block a little. With 8.5 overs to go and 8 Wkt? In hand if a team does not play positive cricket it deserves to be laughed off the field.

Time for new leadership. Time to close the door on Yuvraj. And Dhoni. Who hasn’t done anything abroad. Or outside subcontinent

OK…

benefit of hindsight is always a great tool…i didnt see anyone one saying why yuvi is out there when he walked out

here is what dhoni thinking…the guy yuvi just scored 60 runs on 45 odd balls against england…didnt he? and then run a ball against SA…so yes he is out of form but he is coming back to form…and he has done some magical things in past plus he plays really well againt off spin (slog on leg side)…so let me send him out otherwise it will be too late because he cannot just go start hitting from ball 1 like dhoni and raina can do later on…now who knew yuvi will freeze so bad…it never happened before.

what yuvi ended up with was so painful …he just froze ..now i dont know if it was just one bad day or he has lost it…my gut is telling me he is finished…at least for now. he needs to go back to ranji and spend a lot of time in the middle…i like the man, though and my heart goes out for him for what he is going through.