Yuvraj has yet again proved that he is real match winner and there is no stopping him when his confidence is high. The runs have come at the right time and must be pushing to claim the place vacated by Ganguly. Srikanth has also been impressed with yuvraj performance recently and has hinted that he is sure to find a place in the test team. As Srikanth rightly observed that Yuvraj is a confidence player and if his morale is upbeat he will perform well. Another striking aspect is when ever he is provoked for bad performance by the media and the past players, he has come out and answered them through his bat. His poor run in Australia and the Srilanka was the talking point and people started raising doubts on his attitude and future, i am sure the same lot of people will start to praise on his performance.
As expected it has been easy for India in the first 2 matches with brilliant performance from Yuvraj with both bat and ball backed by some good seam bowling from Zaheer and company. England has to re-group themself quickly and show some improved performance in the 3rd ODI to keep the series alive. England's main problem is their bowling, i fail to understand, how they could come to india packed with fast bowlers when the pitches here are not going to help fast bowling. Pieterson and Flintoff are the key players and if they don't get real big scores its going to be tough to see match winning performances from others. Both of them showed some glimses of their striking in the 2nd ODI and if they get into the rhythm, players like Collingwood,Bell,Shaw,Bopara can play around them to put up a fight. I think it will happen if they bat first and put some big score to back their ordinary bowling to restrict India.
For India there is lot of room for improvement in the bowling, except for Zaheer all the others have taken the stick.
I have a feeling that the current England team is like the SriLankan team in late 80's and early 90's, they will put up some good individual performance but fail to win matches.
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Nice to see Yuvi hitting back to back centuries. Coming to his bowling I feel Dhoni is over bowling him. He went for runs in the third ODI initially but still Dhoni persisted with him. While Dhoni had resources like Pathan & Viru he is not using them to their potential not sure why.
Coming to the English side I wonder why Monty is never given a chance in the ODI side while he is almost an automatic selection in the test side. Their pace attack can do little in these conditions. Not long before we were seeing the Aussie pacer struggle in similar conditions. They have to play few genuine spinners in their side while playing in the sub continent that will what add to their strength.
I totally Agree with you as i had mentioned it just baffles me on how the english selectors pick so many fast bowlers for Indian Tour.
Dhoni must have thought Yuvi is in good frame of mind and could turn the table in few overs but persisting with him for 8-9 overs is too much.
But after all its the england team so he might take some chances.
Vasu, Ajay... though it is quite surprising and baffling that dhoni used Yuvi for more overs even though he leaked runs.. there can be a chance that Yuvi being a left arm bowler and is bowling in tandem with Bajji, the footmarks left by yuvi can help bajji to turn the ball more into the batsman.
oh.. am i blatantly supporting Dhoni too much???!!!!!
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