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For all the indian fans: We're not going out that easily!!!!!

Nishant

International 12th Man
Guys, im really fired up (for no apparant reason! ) I really believe that india can still make the super eights! We have to smack bermuda....there's no doubt abt it...but instead of being so depressed and showing so much concern, ive created this thread so all us indian fans can come together and liven up! Who knows...maybe our optimism will reach th indian players.

p.s. For all those who dont really support india....do u think that there is any point of being optimistic or is our fate going to be the same as our local rivals pakistan?
 

Turbinator

Cricketer Of The Year
I would've made this thread if I didn't promise to shutup and not show anymore enthusiasm and optimism until India start performing, which will hopefully be tomorrow.

But anyways, I can't contain myself anymore. Heck yeh we're still in it boys. How many times have these Indians underperformed and recieved so much criticism back home, and then went on to perform like true champions. The answer is a lot, so heck yeh we're still in it.

This team is extremely talented, and no doubt tigers on paper, it's just about performing to their full potential. Which no doubt they will do now that they are under pressure by more than 1 billion people on the face of this earth. This team will come out firing, I have faith in them.

Let's show these Lankans and Bermudans what we're made of.

Hooooo Haaaa India, Aaaaya Indiaaa! :laugh:

P.S. Good way to reach 2 700 posts, hehe.
 
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Sanz

Hall of Fame Member
Who Cares ?? Indian team sucks, Chappell/Dravid Pair has finally succeeded in reaching its ultimate goal.
 

Evermind

International Debutant
How many times have these Indians underperformed and recieved so much criticism back home, and then went on to perform like true champions.
Never?

India get thrashed badly in pretty much every overseas tour, then have a series at home and manage to win it - and everyone, somehow, is convinced that they've "come good". That's not "performing like true champions" - the last time that actually happened was in 1983, when gutsy players like Kapil Dev were around.
 

Nishant

International 12th Man
Never?

India get thrashed badly in pretty much every overseas tour, then have a series at home and manage to win it - and everyone, somehow, is convinced that they've "come good". That's not "performing like true champions" - the last time that actually happened was in 1983, when gutsy players like Kapil Dev were around.
we started slowly in the last world cup as well......lost to the aussies and then recieved a lot of critisism back home. Then we went on to win the nxt 8 matches and reach the final. This will happen again....and this time we'll win the thing altogether!
 

Pup Clarke

Cricketer Of The Year
TBH I think it's a huge disadvantage when only playing 4 specialist bowlers and especially when two of them Agarkar and Harbhajan are struggling for wickets and control.Pathan may have to come in for the Sri Lanka game IMO to add balance.
 

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
TBH I think it's a huge disadvantage when only playing 4 specialist bowlers and especially when two of them Agarkar and Harbhajan are struggling for wickets and control.Pathan may have to come in for the Sri Lanka game IMO to add balance.
As I said in another thread though, Pathan of late isn't any more reliable than the Indian part-time bowlers.

Considering they batted first and only scored 191, 30 of which coming from batsmen #10 and #11, I think the batting was a bigger problem than the 5th bowler. Weakening it by selecting a bowling allrounder and dropping a batsman wouldn't make much sense IMO.
 

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
So you think a mixture of Yuvraj,Sehwag and Tendulkar is good enough for a 5th bowling option?
Well, add in Ganguly...
And I'll still say no. :p

But I don't think Pathan is good enough at the moment to be a fifth bowling option either, and given it was India's batting that failed in their last outing, dropping a batsman for Pathan would be just changing things for the sake of changing them. The Tendulkar/Ganguly/Yuvraj combination will have to do really. I'd drop Sehwag but I'd play Karthick.
 

Pup Clarke

Cricketer Of The Year
Sehwag IMO won't be dropped for today's match and if he scores runs he will automatically play agianst Sri Lanka knowing the Indian selectors.
Against Sri Lanka my X1 would be

Sourav Ganguly
Robin Uthappa
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Yuvraj Singh
MS Dhoni
Dinesh Karthik/Irfan Pathan
Harbhajan Singh
Sreesanth
Zaheer Khan
Munaf Patel
 

chaminda_00

Hall of Fame Member
India by plenty IMO. Sri Lanka to lose Bangladesh as well! :p
Sri Lanka not going to lose a game for the rest of cup. I can't see any team getting close to us. We'll smash India harder then we did Bermuda.

Chaminda Vaas is the greatest fast bowler ever, Murali is the greatest spinner ever. Sangakkara is best keeper batsmen ever. Jayawardene is the great captain ever. Jayasuriya is the greatest One Day Batsmen ever. Malinga will be the best fast bowler for the next ten year. No team will ever come close to Sri Lanka ever again. If you think Australia's domination was something you haven't seen anything yet.

[/One eyed Sri Lankan Mode]

Haha 7,000th post, we going to smash Bangladesh and India BTW
 

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