Third Test: WI v India at Basseterre

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Dravid is a very conservative captian and person in general and I guess he will go for a draw. He is so conservative that instead of giving his clothes to a dry-cleaner and wasting, he prefers to wash them by hand with his balti of water and 2 rupaiya ka laddu saabun.

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They already have decided as such after the fall of Sehwag's wicket (as you indicated). Why would they send in Laxman when the Dravids and Dhonis of the world are resting in the pavilion? I do have faith in Laxman's abilities as a test specialist batsman and I have seen him on more than one ocassion bat out his entire patience and endurance which usually results in his longer stays at the crease but every situation should be accessed differently and on its own merit. Laxman at #3 in the first innings made sense, yes. Right now, well.........

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Thanks but no thanks. We are better off with Jaffer and Sehwag. :smiley:

:rotfl: at ‘consistent openers like Salman butt’

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Both Jaffer and Sehwag lack consistency. If you are pointing at Samlan Butt’s dismal show against India when Indians toured Pakistan, he played well in the 1st one-day but then had 2 zeros.. I know him well personally and that was cuz he was about to get married and there were family problems.. usual Punjabi stuff.. I am sure you know how it goes in Pakistan during marriages. Now they have sacked him for just one tour failure.. Imran Farhat is highly inconsistent and lacks cricketing mind and temperament.

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India is in a perfect position to win this game and I hope they do just that.

192 runs in 32.0 overs with 8 wickets in hand.

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At tea, India are 200-2
With Yuvraj and Dhoni to come, chasing 192 in 32 overs with an average of 6 an over is quite doable.
Lets see what will be their approach after tea.

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They must come out attacking. India is most comfortable when chasing. I do not see Windes creating any trouble to these batsmen.

Lara has ruined the chance of winning by second guessing. It just shows captaincy and leadership is a rare talent, rather than achieved by experience or anything else.

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Indian captain is doing anything BUT leading from the front! :snooty:

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I am not sure what Lara was smoking when he declared the innings today! India better not win!

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India 271-3
needing 121 from 108 balls.

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Dhoni gone and with him hopes of winning the match as well
India 273-4 needing 119 in 16 overs

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Not a single single run scored in the last 20 balls which means that this match is going for a draw. Lara should feel like a King right now. He has managed to achieve a 'draw'.

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JESUS CHRIST !@@#$#^%%^&)&()^$%^#$%@

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This is just another one of sub-continental defensive mindshells that I hardly and absolutely loathe. The strategies that have been discussed in the above many posts have left infinite unanswered questions on the minds of many. This exact type of behavior and issue was created in Nagpur earlier this year as well when, under Dravid’s mind-boggling captaincy, India failed to chase a target of 368 runs when the captain himself decided to push himself up the table to rather waste any amount of deliveries down the drain as he pleased and beneath him were the pinch-hitters, just inching to have a blast at the ball from the get-go. After the completion of that match against England, Dravid admitted, and I quote:

  • “We thought we would give England a bit of a scare,” Dravid said when asked about the sudden change of tack. He conceded that the dash could have begun 45 minutes earlier. Actually, it could have begun three hours earlier; then the scare would have been a major one. No doubt Dravid will grow into the fine captain that Chappell sees in him, but this time he lacked the killer instinct. Sport is about grabbing your opportunities and neither captain quite had the confidence or experience to do it. (CricInfo)

I have given loads of much-deserved credit to Dravid (and Team India for that matter) several times in the past for displaying their colors and true heroics in the game, especially and foremost in cases when the captain has led an example and the team from the front! This case, however, demands a serious inquiry which has been banging on my head since this morning (or since the past five days, as a matter of fact). From that ICC’s chapraasi Atkinson giving this Qabristan of a pitch a green signal ahead of the time which turned out to be nothing but a disaster in the end, Lara’s display of (his previous and) recent antics while on the same token, claiming that “they need to learn how to draw games” (What in the world?) to where Laxman of all the batters sitting in the camp is prefered over regular pinch-hitters in order to further mock of what could very well have been an exciting and nail-biting finish. After all, they could have reshaped their strategies and might as well have tested Lara’s patience by sending in Laxman at #5 or even #6. There were practically tons of scenarious which could have been sketched into paths of victories, not even by Dravid himself but by Lara as well, none of which were witnessed by a new-born child.

Ridiculous, ridiculous day at the office. Not a shade or drop of joy in any camp whatsoever. Complete misery this has turned out to be.

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Match drawn

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Thanks to Chay Lara........

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He made a mistake but is separate from the result, India COULD have tried to go for a win by dashing for first 20-30 overs and if a fall was visible they could have gone intodefensive shell but they started slowly, one player tried a surge and later on fell, then perhaps another player tried a surge few hours(?) apart.... these are not ways of "trying to win" but barely for the words "we tried".

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Dravid is such an idiot, didnt they have 2 get 140 from like 23 overs and couldnt get it with 7 wickets in hand, no wonder they were beaten completely during the one day series.

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Ganguly cud have done far better a job at attacking than Dravid.. I think its high time for Chapell to go and be replaced by a thinking cricketer like Kapil Dev

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This is not a ODI and most of the equations don't really apply in this case. Dravid has only 2 guys in this team who he can bank on when chasing such scores - sehwag and Dhoni. If these guys had stayed a bit longer, they could've cerainly tried. Also, the lines and lengths that the WI bowlers were bowling was not really conducive for scoring - short and wide (would certainly be called wide in ODIs) outside off-stump, with 7-8 men on the off-side. The odd ball was also keeping low and not coming on - something that is expected on a 5th day pitch.

Bottomline though, it required some more risks to be taken and I think both WI and India are scared of losing too much to win.