India couldn't defend 187 runs in 23 overs in 2nd ODI against England

Hi Too sad. 187 was surely a good score. All Indian need is good bowlers (not the old one totally new faces).. With the current bowlers India couldn't save score more than this. None of them are effective. Yes yesterday's match result surely made me think that India could have lose the first match too.

dont remind me about am already pissed about ....they dont have depth in their bowling and i dont see the future of bowling departement untill they do some shuffling in the bowling i think they need to have one pace bowler like bret lee or shane bond and a class spinner like shane warne

Bowling has definitely been the weakling in this team. Without Zaheer and after retirement of Kumble the bowling looks toothless. They perform well in bits and pieces, but as a bowling unit, they all do not come to the party in the same match. This is what has already cost us the No.1 ranking in the Tests and this is now spilling over to the ODIs as well. Cheers! Ram

well Wismay, I understand your disappointment. What I feel went wrong in this match was India's 188 is chase able one with inexperience bowling attack. Ashwin did not play in England until ODI's started whereas Swann played all the test matches. Munaf Patel should have been given the new ball instead of no discipline bowler Vinay Kumar. England too a risk by attacking Praveen Kumar and it worked for them. When players like Rihane, Raina and Partiv can hit Stuart Broad, Breasan and Anderson out of park for sixes then why can't England batsmen hit sixes and fours for bowlers like Munaf Patel, Raina, Kohli, Praveen Kumar and Ashwin. Do you think this bowling attack can stop England playing aggressive cricket, I do not think so. So, It is again the duty of Indian batsmen to again score a big one, that means India should have set a target of 220 min. But the game turned around when Partiv Patel was dismissed and Dravid came to crease. Here England bowlers managed to squeeze some quite overs. Indian batsmen thought of accelerating in end but wickets feel regularly, the set batsman Rihana should have tried to remain till the end because it won't be easy for new batsmen to come and hit straight away then no much overs left. But it did not happen and Dhoni failed again and Raina could not take the score to 190 plus in the last over of the innings. The match was lost by India in the first 6 overs of the second innings. England scored 70 odd runs in first 6 overs and they hundred too came in less than 10 overs, so, they made the run rate quite before the power-play finishes. England did play to the plan and Indian team has no answer for the initial burst of Cook and the other opener. Usually Sehwag gives that time for surprise to opposite team but this time team India is on the receiving end. In coming matches too if Praveen Kumar and Ashwin fails then India cannot defend any kind of target. So, it is bowling which is lot of worry and batting need to more aggressive when it is most needed that is mostly at the time of powerplay's.

It was really pathetic to see India losing in the second match against England. As i watched India batting, I was sure that India will win this match but all changed suddenly as England batted well. Perhaps Indians bowlers were not up to their mark. They even couldn't resist such a decent total.

worst performance of indian team continue whenbatsman have done thier job bowlers let the team down It is very hard for india now will they ever going to won a single match i think not. The performance is too poor to say anything. Captain dhoni he didn't take good decision to make sure englnad didn't score. Bowlers were getting hit and he just sent them to do so. He must have rotated bowler in a good way. It sseems to be very true what you say about first odi, i also think same. These bowler what to say can't going to take india home. Very poor , 187 was a good score to defend but .......

Bowling had been a headache for indian team so far in this series. I would be really amazed when india won any match in this series with this dumb bowling side.