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Yes I’am talking about Adelaide Test between Australia and India. There is nothing left for India to do rather than planning for T20s now. It’s a bit of stupidity when your captain can’t set proper fields, your bowlers can’t bowl consistently, all your batsman are blind and you don’t have a new strategy. This is indeed one of the worst India’s Australian tour for Indians where most of the players have performed exceptionally worse.
Finally we can celebrate that India successfully scored over 100 in last test match. If you’re thinking that there is a mistake in the last statement then you should know that there might be mistake in your perception. From last 10 matches all we cared about was Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th International 100. Do we really need to care? I think it’s a complete waste of time to cheer for someone’s personal milestone rather than team’s performance. Please give some space for Sachin, he will score his 100th ton whenever the right time will come. At the moment, all he has got with him is pressure from all over the world.
Instead of this personal milestone, what we really need to care is India’s overall performance. If Sachin is scoring 70s or 80s and getting out without scoring a ton, it’s fine but if your team is not able to score more than 200 in a test match in 1st innings or not able to restrict the opponent under 1st innings trial or target and losing with a big figure of runs and an innings then it should be a point of concern.
Looking at the Australian side, all they have with them is confidence and support. What India needs is Confidence and support from the country. That’s enough.
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After a huge defeat in the first test match against Australia, India seems to have lost control on the initial innings of the game in the 2nd Test at Sydney. Indian batting line-up falls again with the score 191 for All out.
There is no doubt on Australian bowling line-up or the consistency from Ben Hilfenhaus but it seems that India is not able to get a good start. Opening innings with their all time favorites Gambhir and Sehwag doesn’t seems to be working at all. While Sehwag is not able to pick the start to a big score, Gambhir is unable to get a start of his innings. He also seems to be facing difficulties while facing Pace bowlers.
He is not a man from any International squad. He plays for a very small country who somehow managed to qualify for the ICC T20 World Cup 2010. He is from Afghanistan. He is the speedstar Shapoor Zadran. Though Afghanistan didn’t qualified for the super eights but this man has impressed lot of people from all over the world. This tall guy bowl at a high speed and is probably the fastest bowler for Afghanistan. His personality resembles Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Akhtar. With his high arm bowling action, he has impressed a lot against South Africa. Shapoor has played Pakistani county with Umar Gul and has also played other county matches.
He has really proved himself and he may be another big star soon.