Why is it not an option, sir ?and Chennai 99 vs Pakistan.
poll is just for series. technically chennai 99 and kolkata 99 werent from the same series.Why is it not an option, sir ?
Wasn't that the match when Tendulkar & Dravid indulged in some of the worst ever batting I've seen from those two. I was almost at the edge of swearing to get these two out because they murdered the momentum of that innings.Worst match loss was Chennai '99.
Some of our match losses in recent drawn home series have been pretty bad - vs. Pakistan in Bangalore in '05, vs. England in Wankhede '06. Just the crushing inevitability of seeing the batsmen fold under pressure on day 5.
I'll go for S. Africa '06-'07 - it was sickening the way we threw it away against Harris and co. with mind-numbingly craven batting in the third innings, after everything the bowlers had done. That series was there for the taking, really.
Yeah, that was the one.Wasn't that the match when Tendulkar & Dravid indulged in some of the worst ever batting I've seen from those two. I was almost at the edge of swearing to get these two out because they murdered the momentum of that innings.
Thanks vcs. Now that is what I call a "commentary". Sambit Bal criticized Tendulkar, as rightly that innings deserved that ridicule, but wisely he desisted from making broader conclusions from that or making it a "calling for his head" piece, which Chappelli with all his infinite wisdom erred in. Sambit can get no flak because he offered just his commentary on that particular innings alone.
Nah, Chappelli made comments that at the time were perfectly reasonable. Your constant tirade on this is not going to change that fact. We've already had this discussion before as well:Thanks vcs. Now that is what I call a "commentary". Sambit Bal criticized Tendulkar, as rightly that innings deserved that ridicule, but wisely he desisted from making broader conclusions from that or making it a "calling for his head" piece, which Chappelli with all his infinite wisdom erred in. Sambit can get no flak because he offered just his commentary on that particular innings alone.
Leave your hero worship at the door, don't hijack this thread.I don't know what the exact date was when Chappell had made the comments I just googled it and found a BBC piece on Chappell saying, it's dated 30th of March. If we go by the period 30 March 2004 to 30 March 2007 Tendulkar averages 36.63 in 23 matches. Without Bangladesh that's 28.90 in 21 matches.
Get off his case.
Just his commentary, huh ? Really ?Thanks vcs. Now that is what I call a "commentary". Sambit Bal criticized Tendulkar, as rightly that innings deserved that ridicule, but wisely he desisted from making broader conclusions from that or making it a "calling for his head" piece, which Chappelli with all his infinite wisdom erred in. Sambit can get no flak because he offered just his commentary on that particular innings alone.
Still on the chappell's back mate !!! I thought you finally agreed with others on that one. As far as sambit's article concerned its not one of his great works, not much direction in that article either, seems like "in the moment article" to me.Thanks vcs. Now that is what I call a "commentary". Sambit Bal criticized Tendulkar, as rightly that innings deserved that ridicule, but wisely he desisted from making broader conclusions from that or making it a "calling for his head" piece, which Chappelli with all his infinite wisdom erred in. Sambit can get no flak because he offered just his commentary on that particular innings alone.
I am surprised that none of the defeats to Pakistan is mentioned. The failure to win even a test match (let alone a series) in Pakistan till 2004 was something that hurt more than anything young Indians today can imagine. The series losses of 78-79 (2-0) and 82-83
(3-0) were very painful indeed.
In more recent times, though the pain was less since the nationalistic fervour had died down, the 1-0 loss in 2005-06 was shocking considering that indian line up included
- Ganguly
- Sehwag
- Dravid
- Tendulkar
- Laxman
- Yuvraj
- Dhoni
- Pathan
- Kumble
- Harbhajan
- Zaheer
besides RP Singh and Ajit Agarkar
This is the cream of India's cricket of the last two decades and we lost to...
- Salman Butt
- Imran Farhat
- Younis Khan
- Mohammad Younis
- Inzamam
- Shoaib Malik
- Kamran Akmal
- Shahid Afridi
[*]Shoaib Malik- Mohammad Asif
- Danish Kaneria
besides Sami, Naved, Faisal Iqbal, Abdul Razzaq
A decent side but surely India had one of its strongest sides in the one that went out from here.
But as i said it was less painful than the defeats to Imran's side.
Here are the stats for Pakistan for the 2005-06 series against India played in PakistanDamn to shoaib Maliks lol
assuming that you mean Shoaib akhtar... I don't recall seeing a team like that playing india.. in any format...but looking at the middle order... Younis, Yousuf, Inzi... it seems a very strong team... if we count out the fragile openning pair which against india it has never been fragile considering that Butt loves to bat against them..
[B]Player Mts Inns NO Runs HS 100s 50s Avg Ca St[/B]
Younis Khan, 3 5 0 553 199 2 2 110.60 0 0
Kamran Akmal, 3 5 2 293 113 2 1 97.67 9 2
Mohammad Yo, 3 5 0 461 173 2 2 92.20 1 0
Faisal Iqbal, 1 2 0 144 139 1 0 72.00 1 0
Shahid Afridi, 3 5 0 330 156 2 1 66.00 1 0
Inzamam-ul-Haq, 2 2 0 120 119 1 0 60.00 0 0
Abdul Razzaq, 2 4 0 204 90 0 1 51.00 0 0
Shoaib Akhtar, 3 3 1 92 47 0 0 46.00 0 0
Imran Farhat, 1 2 0 79 57 0 1 39.50 2 0
Shoaib Malik, 2 2 0 78 59 0 1 39.00 0 0
Salman Butt, 3 5 0 120 53 0 1 24.00 0 0
Naved-ul-Hasan, 1 1 0 9 9 0 0 9.00 0 0
Mohammad Asif, 2 3 1 6 *6 0 0 3.00 1 0
Kaneria, D 3 3 1 0 *0 0 0 0.00 1 0
Mohammad Sami, 1 1 1 1 *1 0 0 0 0
[B]Player Mts Inns NO Runs HS 100s 50s Avg Ca St[/B]
Dravid, R 3 5 2 241 *128 2 0 80.33 2 0
Sehwag, V 3 4 0 294 254 1 0 73.50 1 0
Dhoni, M S 3 3 0 179 148 1 0 59.67 7 1
Yuvraj Singh, 3 3 0 171 122 1 0 57.00 4 0
Laxman, V V S 3 5 2 138 90 0 1 46.00 2 0
Pathan, I K 3 3 0 134 90 0 1 44.67 0 0
Harbhajan , 2 1 0 38 38 0 0 38.00 3 0
Ganguly, S C 2 2 0 71 37 0 0 35.50 1 0
Zaheer Khan, 2 3 1 51 21 0 0 25.50 0 0
Tendulkar, S R 3 3 0 63 26 0 0 21.00 4 0
Kumble, A 3 3 0 27 15 0 0 9.00 1 0
Singh Jr, R P 2 3 2 6 6 0 0 6.00 0 0
Agarkar, A B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0