India Vs South Africa,12th March @ Nagpur...

[hanibal]

Re: India Vs South Africa,12th March @ Nagpur…

@Southie

Good observation. Gambhir went trhough a stretch when he scored 1 run off an over, and continued in that sluggish pace. Considering he came in at ~ 160 for 1, he had an obligation to step it up, not play like it was a test match. The fact that his numbers at the end looked OK is not as relevant as the fact that he clogged up the inning - thus creating pressure on everyone to play bad shots.

Still cant understand the haters - I cant imagine rooting against Pakistan (in spite of the jokers)

Gautam just played the situation, as Dhoni rightly said, it is not all about Six and Fours, it is about rotating strike and as other experts have said all the time, partnerships are the one which takes any team home, had Gambhir got out at that stage playing some silly shot to accelerate run rate, it would have ruined the work done by Tendulkar and Sehwag, the blame goes to the Captain who i must say took singles and exposed tail enders in front of South African bowling attack… had Yuraj and others played sensibly, i.e. not trying to smash every ball out of the ground, India could have easily scored 350 runs…