India has been doing exceedingly well in early stages of ICC tournaments in this decade. Not that history counts for much.
I had the same question, but probably not.
Not that I saw. Mash has said he wants the team to stay calm and focus on the remaining 8 games. Doesn't want this to be the BD team of the old, where one major scalp in the WC is enough to deem it a good tournament.
From the way they were carrying on in the field yesterday, it would appear that all of them (including this Mash himself) completely ignored him.
To achieve nirvana, you must suffer first. I have been to the valley, and have indeed reached moksha.
That apparently was the plan, because batting sucks. But poor selection combined with who the hell knows what, decided that they redraw the plan on the back of a napkin during the flight over.
Everything they spoke about in the build up has not happened. I'm still not going to buy the injuries as excuses. You have a chance to pick 15 players, so cover your damn bases.
People are calling it a choke? Sigh. That's just a very, VERY average team that people were naming as a semi-final lock before hand but really they're a million miles off it. Carrying so many players past their use-by dates and some at the other end of the scale...with only really de Kock in the productive middle.
Having all the fast bowlers come under an injury cloud just before the WC has not helped. And losing Nortje altogether was a blow. But Morris was not the answer, if they going to pick Morris it should have been originally in place of Pretorius. I would have preferred Hendricks, that`s how bad it is, but at least he gives something different.
