call mishra back...

shared by straight point on Saturday, September 26, 2009

by the time you will read this... you would have seen pitch report... and the teams announced... the only word that was getting repeated in the pitch report was dry... dry and dry...

both shastri and akram agreed that the pitch is nothing but nightmare for seamers... with three back to back games played on it and sun beating down relentlessly... the pitch has developed cracks... in short typical fourth day subcontinent pitch...

and india is going in with three off form seamers and only one spinner in bhajji...

if amit mishra is not talented enough to play on this dry pitch then its almost certain that he is not going to play any part in the tournament and hence is waste of a place... dhoni should declare him injured and replace him with a loath of a bowler like munaf etc...

12 comments:

Megha said...

yeah..that's exactly what I was thinking! can't believe Dhoni n Co didn't get this one right...

straight point said...

i am still seething megha... can't see a promising career getting killed in infancy...

Leela said...

Can'believe the lacklustre bowling on display right now..
:-(

Aditya said...

1st of all they drop Ojha! who hasn't done many things wrong..then they get Mishra into the squad and he warms the benches when he should be playing in the best pitch for him!

seeing how successful left arm spinners have been in this tourney (ROFL,Miller,Vettori,etc) and how well Ojha did in the IPL in similar conditions!!

Purna said...

They misread the pitch obviously. C'mon, what do Akram and Shastri know?

straight point said...

leela...

then you are not following indian team of late... :)

straight point said...

1st of all they drop Ojha! who hasn't done many things wrong...

infact aditya he hadn't done anything wrong... they could have taken only two spinners and took mishra instead which meant there wont be anyone challenging bhajji for we all know how much dhoni loves mishra...

straight point said...

one being decent left arm spinner and other being sultan of swing... you have to give credit where its due purna...

Purna said...

I was being sarcastic SP. That's the kind of excuses teams use after they make stupid decisions right? :P

straight point said...

oh! my bad purna...

but then you have to give it to me after witnessing heavy defeat yesterday... ;-)

scorpicity said...

No Ojha no Mishra... The guys are getting a bit deluded in their fast bowlers abilities. In contrast, the traditional fast bowling teams are beefing up on spin.

Globalization.

straight point said...

indeed its globalization scorpy :)

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