Dravid would have been handy at five

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Jayant.	One should not be hard and fast about which player in the side should be playing where, i think one should give space to the Captain of the team to decide which player should come and play and they should play for the country. ( Posted: Monday , December 24, 2007 at 12:35 )
Praveen Singh	Indian selectors and BCCI must be able to adapt the modern cricket where there is no place for those players who can not run and field good. Tendulkar, Ganguly, Dravid are keep getting older and boring. Younger talent is warming the bench when they are in their prime form and best fit. We must invest in yound talent becuase these three old trio will not be there for many days and younger talent is getting old while warming the bench. For me the best 15 should be there and who ever is not performing should warm the bench. Best 15-16 may be Yuvraj(Captain), Dhoni(Vice Captain), Gambhir, Uthappa, Raina, Rohit Sharma, Joginder Sharma, Romesh Powar, KD Karthik, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Munaf Patel, VRV Singh, RP Singh, Sreeshant, Zaheer Khan. There is no place for OLDIES TRIO anymore, lets face it that they are just the liability to the team. DONT FORGET WE ALREADY PROVED IT BY WINNING THE 20-20. Thanks ( Posted: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 21:14 )
Dinesh Bhagavath	Well our Indian media will never improve and seem to fail like Sachin''s batting. The writer has a word on everyone but Sachin''s consistent(at least he is faithful of being consistent)failures has never been highlighted.It has been a decade since he has performed and yet not a single Indian writer has the guts to say it.I am waiting for the day when an Indian writes at least one sentence against Sachin.But Indians being idol worshippers ,I am afraid ,that day will never arrive. A sad state of affairs. Dinesh ( Posted: Sunday , December 31, 2006 at 12:41 )
suman	Instead criticising dravid and team the writer would have anlysedbizzere umpiring and wrong decisions which went against india.BCCI and team management should complain to ICC against sub standared umpriing. dravid is not failure but victim of bad umpiring Before SA test series In last ten tests dravid scored 1046 runs @ avg 71+ 100''''''''s - 3, 50''''''''s – 7( highest for any other ind btestman) Ind won test series in WI after 35 yrs under dravid’d captaincy ( without tendulkar and ganguly) and dravid won mom and MOS. Dravid is one batsman who scored 9000 runs in 176 innings earlier than sachin, ricky pointing and brain lara Dravid scored 18 & 63 in two ODI In first test as a captian he took bold decision to bat first, and scored patient knock of 33 runs in first innings and 69 runs partnership with sachin which was very imp runs for first innings lead. His captaincy, fleld placement bowling change were simply brilliant. ( Posted: Sunday , December 31, 2006 at 11:02 )
suman	team india did not win the series in SA in last 3 tours. it did not happened even when successful,aggressive captain ganguly. it is unfortunate that each time team lost or any player out of form, team, injured dravid made villain and blamed for failures.he was given out in 2 innings by umpires and wrong decision in both times. Even South Sfricna commentators Alain Donald and pat Suncox say Dravid was not out in both the innings In first test as a captian he took bold decision to bat first, and scored patient knock of 33 runs in first innings and 69 runs partnership with sachin which was very imp runs for first innings lead. His captaincy, fleld placement bowling change were simply brilliant. Dravid show that he is character captain and can win test series aborad like wadekar and kapildev and expressed his emotionf Indian flag. ( Posted: Sunday , December 31, 2006 at 10:58 )
maharam	I THINK SHEWAG IS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT ONCE IN A BLUE MOON BIG KNOCK WILL ASSURE HIS PLACE IN THE TEAM. SOHAIL RIGHTLY POINTED OUT ABOUT THE ATTITUDE OF VIRU TOWARDS BATTING.IN PAK WHEN THE WORLD RECORD UP FOR THE GRABS HE WENT FOR AIRY SHOTS.HE THOUGHT HIS STYLE OF BATTING WILL SAVE HIME ALWAYS. BANG BANG STYLE WILL NOT ALWAYS YIELD DESIRED RESULTS. SOMETIMES ONE SHOULD STAY PUT AND PLAY A WAITING GAME. TEST MATCH IS THE REAL TEST OF CHARACTER AS GREAT LARA RIGHTLY POINTED OUT. HOPE OUR GREAT PAPER TIGERS REALISE THE SAME MAHARAM ( Posted: Sunday , December 31, 2006 at 09:53 )
Nandakumar Moorkath	It is strange that all the bloggers and writers are so stubborn or pretend to be blind and refuse to see the real reason for india''s defeat in this Test! The real reason for those who care to see the truth and not hide under facade of acting, is rank bad umpiring by Asad Rauf, the Paki umpire and Benson, the British umpire! Even Pat Syncox and Alan Donald, the Proteas commnentators and fromer Test players were forthright and bold to admit that there were at least 6 clear instances of umpiring decision that should have gone India''s way, but went in favour of South Africa! This includes 2 unfair dismissals of Captain Dravid! Does any one need more answers why India lost the Test and the lost the chance to clinch the series?! Dravid and team management must refuse to play in Third Test if either Benson or Rauf or both are selected to be the umpires and must lodge a strong protest to ICC about bad,sub-standard umpiring in the Test.Will they show the guts to take the bull by the horns?! ( Posted: Sunday , December 31, 2006 at 01:23 )
can''t blame entire loss on bad umpiring yes! should be complained about, but that can happen only after the match is over and the result is out.the real fault is again with mindless selection policy.viru is persevered with while pathan is sent back for lack of form??if pathan would have played in place of viru IN THIS MATCH then result would have been different.also how can we go in a test match with 1-0 lead with 2 openers who r attacking in attitude & lacking in form, why not defensive slow players for 1 test match.gambhir and pathan in place of viru and jaffer would have been a winning combination for this match. ( Posted by kish on Sunday , December 31, 2006 at 15:11 )   can''t blame entire loss on bad umpiring yes! should be complained about, but that can happen only after the match is over and the result is out.the real fault is again with mindless selection policy.viru is persevered with while pathan is sent back for lack of form??if pathan would have played in place of viru IN THIS MATCH then result would have been different.also how can we go in a test match with 1-0 lead with 2 openers who r attacking in attitude & lacking in form, why not defensive slow players for 1 test match.gambhir and pathan in place of viru and jaffer would have been a winning combination for this match. ( Posted by kish on Sunday , December 31, 2006 at 15:11 )
LAXMAN	BUT WHAT TO DO? ASAF SWALLOWED DRAVID. AND BY THE WAY WHERE IS VENGSARKAR AND CO WHO WERE TAKING ALL THE CREDIT FOR WINNING JO.. TEST. ( Posted: Sunday , December 31, 2006 at 00:18 )

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