Shameful Defeat

India suffered a shameful defeat at the hands of England. India had a lot of point to prove and at the end the showed that they are chokers when it comes to crunch matches.

England started brightly with Anderson troubling Ganguly on the first ball of the match. Thereafter Ganguly hit some fours but was supposed to be caught atleast 4-5 times with the ball landing between 2 players for atleast 3 times. Then Ganguly decided that enough is enough and gave a practice catch to Flintoff at slips. Gambhir came and settled immediately but soon after he got some runs he too decided that, thats enough for next series and he too got out. Then there was two bad decision of Dravid's and Sachin's which Indians thought that it costed them them the whole match. Yuvraj and Uthappa then took charge and were scoring runs at a steady pace. Then they too decided to get out and then came Dhoni who played little sensibly. But at other end things were getting worse and each batsman appeared in a hurry to leave the field as if there was a competition of who would come back first. And at last came R.P.Singh who gave support to Dhoni and then Dhoni too decided that he had batted for too long time. He hadn't batted for this much duration even in tests. He also got out playing a very loose shot.

Then comes that part of our performance for which we have specialist coaches i.e bowling and fielding. Zaheer appeared aggressive as ever, and he ensured right from the start that as always this time also there would be competiton for who would give most extras and RP singh was also not far behind in this competition. First 10 runs coming from extras. Then RP Singh showed that selectors were correct in picking him for last match ahead of Agarkar by taking two quick wickets. But that was all. Pietersen and Bell then took command and were scoring at the rate of 5+ when the asking rate was only 3+. Indians were bowling as if they were defending a total of 450. England effortlessly won the match. At the end of the series Venkatesh Prasad and RObin Singh would be two proud caoches. So what if they couldn't improve our bowling and fielding atleast it has certainly become worse than before. There's some difference. They should be credited for it................