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

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

@GoldenAsif

I think in both the games against England and South Africa, the indian batters had an opportunity to close out the game with the bat but they failed which cost them dearly in the end. The middle and late-middle order batters slackened and took their eyes off the game thinking the total was already big enough. That is what separates Australia from the rest of the teams. They would have just killed off opposing teams in such situations. Against England, India were well on course to score 370 and even today they should have got 350 atleast after the start they had 267/1. Actually Gambhir did ok (SR: 92.00) in the end despite a cautious start. It was the batsmen that followed Tendulkar incl. Yuvi who messed it up big time to let go of the platform set up by Sachin, Gambhir and Sehwag

Yea Gauti’s stats look okay in the end but his start was wayy too slow for the situation. I hate the term BATTING ORDER. There should be no order except the openers. Players should come in as per the situation. Yuvraj or Raina would have been perfect today at 1 down.. no Raina in the team so Yuvraj should have come next. Eitherway though the middle order definitely fked up.. yea sure they had to start blasting from the beginning which isnt easy but there is no excuse for collapsing the way they did.