Kapil Dev suggestions for the series against South Africa.
By amitprashar
@amitprashar (245)
India
January 30, 2010 11:18pm CST
Well Kapil Dev has finally decided to get back in limelight with his new suggestion to the BCCI. He has gone on record to say that we should play the South Africans on turning tracks.
Playing South Africa on turning tracks makes sense after all we need to back our strengths.But with Harbhaj's performance and others spinners show on the Bangladesh tour who will have the heart to do so..
What do you think should we follow the Great Captain of the past or go by the current form of the bowlers?
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31 responses
@thesaiyanprince (542)
• India
31 Jan 10
whatever pitch we play on, it should be favorable to both batsman and bowler, equally loaded. it should be seeming on the first day, batsman friendly on the next two days n should turn on the last two days. a classical track. and it should have true bounce and the pitch should have grass covering and man it should be cricket friendly and not batsman friendly...
@amitprashar (245)
• India
31 Jan 10
Well if such a pitch is prepared don't you think we will be giving away the home advantage?
Have you seen South Africa ever offering us a turning track when we tour them.
I think home and away series are held so that we can take advantage of he home situations and conditions. Not create alien conditions for our selves and thus give the advantage to the visitors.
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@thesaiyanprince (542)
• India
31 Jan 10
its not about giving away home advantage its about keeping cricket alive.. no one wants a square turning track on the first day and similarly it will start boring when the conditions are loaded in favor to the batsmen... bowlers aren't there to feed the batsman with runs and most of Indian tracks are turning but it doesnt mean they have to be having only turn.. we have to develop tracks which suit both the teams in equal proportion if we want a fair game.. its not about how they deal things.. its about how we do it... lets not develop tracks that will suit our batsman in all fairness... we will prepare tracks that will not have sharp turn and any batsman can while away the time in case its a draw.. remember what hall was able to do ages back.. everybody see cricket to have a result... a fair game with a result should help the test cricket... the longer version needs to be saved.. we cant see a game for five days and end in a draw right...
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@heenajain33 (66)
• India
4 Feb 10
yes we do not want something like happened with sri lanka on delhi. we need a good pitch that goes well first of all and forget about the rest.
@stardustcdsd (1856)
• India
31 Jan 10
well i am not one of those preparing tracks favouring home sides type.
but you cant change people. but they atleast can try this
this is a 2 test and 3 odi match series.
so why not make the 2 odi as a flat track ( which we are becoming famous for ),1 a good bouncy sporting track for the 3rd odi and turning tracks for the test matches.
lets give the guys atleast one track which reminds them of home conditions
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@stardustcdsd (1856)
• India
31 Jan 10
ooooooooooooooo wouldnt i love another kotla track.may be they are saving like this one for the world cup finals in mumbai.oh what the heck mumbai has always produced sporting wickets so no problem.hope the test match is not in chennai.i am not ready for one of those 1000 runs and only 10 wickets matches
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@amitprashar (245)
• India
1 Feb 10
Well BCCI will not allow matches to be drawn specially with it making special arrangements for us to play test matches and to sustain the no.1 tag.
@amitprashar (245)
• India
31 Jan 10
Well ODI is not something we are to worried about as each bowler has a limited quota to bowl.The important thing is the test match we should have home advantage there.
The ODI til the world cup will be played on flat tracks to get the viewership back to ODI from the t20.
ODI will be high scoring unless something like a kotla pitch is prepared lol
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@ramaswamyvtkv (2879)
• India
31 Jan 10
according to me indian bowlers are totally unpredictable.
no matter what pitch we make. we can only belive in our batting strength.
nothing can be commented about the bowling, but turning track will be good because indian batsman are good spin players and SA too dont have quality spinners and so it will be tough for their quickies to bowl.
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@dasj20 (127)
• India
1 Feb 10
According to team india, the total strength is only batting not bowling.
some situations,i.e little bit of time the bowlers play a little role in matches
and team india bastmen play spin very well compare to any team.
the indian team is strong in playing spin,so the pitch is not matter....
if one innings may loss,but next innings we gain.
@88jasmeetsinghbarhok (162)
• India
31 Jan 10
I think what kapil dev said is right but the problem is that if we make turning tracks then it help other teams because they will get full advantage of like their home pitches where as spin pitches are not friendly pitches as in India, Pakistan.India in years has not produced good spinners ohja,mishra are good bowlers but still they have to learn more.
@amitprashar (245)
• India
1 Feb 10
Well totally agreed I know our spinners are not performing they way we have the former greats do on turning tracks.But we need to give them a chance to prove.Till the time we don't support them its going to be like killing our budding spinners.We need to promote spin again and that can happen only when there are spinning tracks available.
@malkesh_jakhar (54)
• India
3 Feb 10
Kapil Dev has finally decided to get back in limelight with his new suggestion to the BCCI..........because he is the best player in the world ...........he always redy to give chance to new player & supoort to senior player ........
he is very gentel & kind heart man also.............
@amitprashar (245)
• India
3 Feb 10
Well I agree he was a fighter and its his skill to fight that's what made him the best in the world.
He is also write in his way about backing our strengths.
@sarojyadav21 (70)
• India
13 Feb 10
Kapil dav has finally decided to get back in limited with his new suggestion to the BCCi..... because he is the best player in the world..... he alwaYS REDY TO GIVE CHANCE TO NEW PLAYER
@pankajdhankar01 (51)
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4 Feb 10
Kapil Dev is saying the right thing for the spinners but the reallity is that for spinnig tracks we have limited bowlers with international experience and in future u hardly find any other bowler to fill the empty space for anil kumble and harbhajan.
@amitprashar (245)
• India
4 Feb 10
Well we have just 2 days to go we will see what is on offer.
Go India!!!
@singh569 (55)
• India
7 Feb 10
kapil think about tha south africa thery are best player
becouse their filding is so well as well as acording to tha bating
@23uday (2997)
• India
1 Feb 10
hi friend,
Yes now india will play against south africa.Indian team performance is very good.
In Indian are some good players like sachin,sehwag,dravid,laxman,dhoni,yuvaraj,
goutham,harbhajan,zaheer,etc.India can beat south africa and retain their top rank.
Great captaincy of dhoni.
have a good day.
@amitprashar (245)
• India
1 Feb 10
Well I hope evry one performs.Its going to be tough to with Dravid missing,Murali Vijay will need to do a lot of hard work to take his place and blunt the South African pace battery.
@vigneshindian (203)
• India
1 Feb 10
I dont agree with views of kapil dev .
if we are number 1 team we should play on any track and defeat south africa.
before a ball being bowled we shouldn't go on defensive .
sporting wicket would be great for test match
cheers
@amitprashar (245)
• India
1 Feb 10
Well every one like a sporting wicket and a spinning track to can be sporting too .Let the south African show that they too have good spinners.Just like they give as sporting which help the seamers we can have the same for the spinners.
@heenajain33 (66)
• India
6 Feb 10
Kapil dev is speaking wid tones of experience behind him. he is simply taking about indians who are known for their quality spin attack
@pankajdhankar01 (51)
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10 Feb 10
Kapil dev's suggestion is always welcome and BCCI should take it seriously because he was a great player of his time and his experince will really helps india , but today we don't have good spiners who really turn the match in india favour and we need to work hard on spinners.
@rohz1906 (205)
• India
19 Feb 10
Yes Kapil Dev is right about saying that India should play against South africa to put the Indian players back on track.This will confidence to the players and increase the responsibilty of each player for the trust of every Indian in them to do their best to put India in the number 1 position.
@soniaahuja (18)
• India
11 Feb 10
Well Kapil Dev is the best player and he played a very importent role in the team.
but BCCI will not allow matches to be drawn.Whatever pitch we play on, it should be favourable to both batsman and bowler.
@grover123 (81)
• India
12 Feb 10
yes Kapil Dev is best player of the world.only he gives a world yo India.
@rahul_singh (236)
• India
13 Feb 10
pitch is favourable for both batsman and bowler.kapil dev was best cricketer who was th ecaptain of india.he won world cup in his time.he is best.
@sarojyadav21 (70)
• India
13 Feb 10
Yes Kapil Dav was a good bestman and boler. kapil Dav wone a world cap only one time of India.Kapil dav was best cricketer who was the ecaptain of india
@prateek001 (20)
• India
15 Feb 10
KAPIL DEV IS THE BEST ALLROUNDER OF INDIA EVER SEEN.HIS TIPS ARE SoMETIMES VERY USEFULL for indian team.we have harbhajan, amit mishra and virender sehwag.they can change the match by its own.and also we cannot neglect the performancwe of harbhajan singh.so best of luck to indian team against south african team.
@rahul_singh (236)
• India
19 Feb 10
Whatever i think that pitch where we play.it is good for both batsman and bowler.Kapil DEv was good player in his time.and he had won world cup the leading of his caption for india who create a history.he always with cricketer and help to won match against South Africa.yesterday india has won one match to South Africa.
@bharatgoel91 (182)
• India
18 Feb 10
we must not follow him exactly,that is yes he is right but dhoni has his tactics in his mind let him do what ever he want because i think when he doesn't listen any one he wins and he is the best .
