Dhoni Smashes And The Indian Bowlers Get Smashed....!!!!!!

India
February 16, 2011 9:43pm CST
Dear all, I must say, I missed the batting of M.S. Dhoni yesterday. But I saw the Indian openers getting smashed all over the park, this time by the Newzealand openers. It was good to see Dhoni back among the runs. It would have done his confidence a world of good. Raina also scored a quick fire 50. But again, he scored those runs under no pressure. His real test will be, when asked to score under a pressure situation. Whether he will be able hold his nerve or not, we will find out. Personally, I don't think so. But I sincerely hope to be proven wrong. Sachin missed out, but surely he will be back among the runs, once the world cup matches start. You can never count that man out. The real problem of the Indian team is the new ball attack. The seamers gave away 112 runs in 15.1 overs. The situations was pretty much the same against Australia too... I do agree, that the Indian conditions suit the batsmen and spinners. But One should not take away the importance of early strikes, or containing the batsmen in the early overs of an innings. This will surely set up the tone for a match. So I believe, that the team having the best new ball attack will be a great force to reckon with in this world cup. One cannot always depend on the spinners to do the job. Share your views.... Balu
7 responses
• India
17 Feb 11
hi balu, i think u missed a lot if you are true dhoni fan.yesterday i felt like m watching real dhoni after long time.the way he was batting was like he gonna punish each and every bowl bowled by bowlers.so that was the batting.which i dont think will be problem for indian team tha main prob. i think will be seamers. from all the seamors i personally feel that only praveen kumar was a bowler whom we can trust because he has provided india with a good start in last some time.and now he is not playing in the world cup.so our seem attack gonna go unbalance. ZK is there but i dont fell he is consistent and specially when we needed him to give us opening wickets he always fails for that. and till the time spinners come opening batsman cam demolish the indian attack. we cant do anything.the thing we can di is only cheer indian team. GO INDIA GO COME ON INDIA DIKHA DO DUNIYA KO HILADO. all the best to indian cricket team.
• India
18 Feb 11
Dear Divyang, I saw the highlights of the match. Yeah.. It was good to see Dhoni get back amongst runs. "But of course", it is only a practice match, and the bowling attack was that of Newzealand. But may be, he just needed one good knock. Hopefully, it has worked wonders for his confidence. For ages, our problem has been, the pace attack. The point is, our pace attack never had pace. Some day, I hope that this is remedied. Share your views.... Balu
• India
17 Feb 11
Yes, the new ball bowlers were really smashed, but you have to remember the spear head Zak, was not playing, and once he bowls from one end, Nehra will get the confidence and bowl well. Then once again Indian pitches are made for spinners, and we should use this to our advantage, and play the three spinners. The Ideal team should be 5 batsman, 1 all rounder, 2 pacers and 3 spinners.Will Dhoni think like this or will he go in for 3 pacers and 2 spinners.?
• India
17 Feb 11
i think dhoni will go for 3 pacers. becoz we have players who can spin a ball and dhoni is always using them as a regular spinner.so sehwag,yuvraj and pathan is used as a regular spinner so i think india should play with 3 pacers.
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
17 Feb 11
Hi balu, This why we need openers for the ball is new and it could do a lot f damage to the opponents. About Raina you have well assessed. He plays well but the environ has to be relaxed and he survived the main bowlers for sometime. But that does not happen always. From yesterdays match we can see the beaming faces of the Indian fans. And I do not like the idea that the host team is the favorite only due to the pitch condition. I would say that pitches should be equal standard internationally. Now in India if the batsman and snipers get advantage why not the teams from different nations? In such situation it feels like fighting children telling each other, "You would get the kicks when you play on our ground".
@rameshchow (4426)
• India
17 Feb 11
Dhana Dhana dhoni, is finished the game in fast speed. I like his long hair, recently his fans in Jharkhands are following his old long hair style, because the barbers are offering this style only for Rs.3 only. Every indian have great hopes on this 2011 ICC world cup, that india will win in this match. I too have that hope.
@raj7shot (838)
• India
18 Feb 11
Good and nice batting from MS at the right time.. It will move up our chances to lift the title.. But its very bad situation about the fast bowlers without zaheer.we cant except zak all time to perform and take over the responsibility on him alone... Let others also wants to take or share the responsibility to strike... MS will go for 2 seamers and 2 spinners and 7 batsmen. Here is the playing team Sachin,Viru,Kohli,Yusuf,MS,Bhaji,Zak,Yuvi,Gauti,Nehra,Chawla
17 Feb 11
Indian cricket team for the coming ICCWORLDCUP2011 WAS Resided by bcci on 17th January 2011 by the selection committee meting in Chennai team India consists of 15 members including mahendra singh dhoni as captain the team designed so that team India strong in batting as well balling section. The selection committee opted 7 specialist batsman,one all rounder and bowlers include four pacer and three specialist spinners bowlers. but the most astonishing and disappointing news for the cricket fans is the outlasting of their favorites cricketers like s sreesanth,rohit sharma and pragyan ohja. The India cricket team fore the ICC WORLD CUP 2011 mixture energetic young cricketers veteran classic players world cricket.the batting side rock strong led by the sachin tendulker is the top position. each and every cricket fans of India as well the world is eagerly waiting to performers of favorite cricketers in the name of sachin tendulker , the little master.the outer seven batsman are virendra shawag mahendra singh dhoni,yuvraj singh,gautham gambhair,suresh raina,virat kohli,the all rounder post goes to yusuf pathan who is in the great form these day.the bowling department of team india led by zaheer kahn,harbhajan singh the outher bowler are selected are munaf patel,praveen kumar,ashish nehera r ashwain and piyush chawla.
@msdivkar (23359)
• India
17 Feb 11
You are right malu, our new ball ballers is a bit concern to the team particularly against Asian power houses like Sri Lanka and Pakistan who have got enough talent to confront our spin ballers so early strike will always be crucial hopefully when Zaheer returns the things could change for the good. Tendulkar was is usual self before getting out hitting three fabulous boundaries. You have to expect a man to be a little bit after such a long lay off. That proves that man is still human after all those records and unbelievable feats at his back. He will certainly come to terms with his batting as soon as the show proper begins.