Rahul Dravid returns.

Votes:
Vote Up 15
 
Vote Down 10
    Views:
117
Indexed  August 15, 2009

If this is to ensure that India keeps out the short stuff, i don’t know how its gonna work.Will including Dravid collectively improve the technique of Raina, Gambhir and Yusuf against the bouncer?As i see it, there’s one more pair of old legs in the field now alongside Sachin.Instead of working on the so called chink in the armour, we have decided to go a step back by bringing out the old Wall after 22 months of absence from the ODI format.Might work in the short run, but how long are we going to defend the young guns?Time for some seaming, bouncy wickets at the academies?Of Course we won’t use them in ...   See the complete post here

Mentions: Rahul Dravid    India    Suresh Raina    Gautam Gambhir   
Posted by:
Bored Cricket Crazy Indians (BCC!) ...and Pakistanis
- view other posts - visit this blog

No comments so far...

Leave a comment about this post

Related Posts

Wi-india 1st Test - Dravid Helps India Take Lead

- July 27, 2011
The Indians gained early lead in the test series in the Caribbean thanks to the heroics of Rahul Dravid and the bowlers.The test started with a relatively inexperienced line-up on both sides. Two players on both sides had played in excess of 80 matches while there was a lot of inexperienced players also - 3 debutants from the Indian team. The table below shows the difference between both teams.The...

Gambhir Puts India On Course For Another Win

- January 20, 2010
Image via Wikipedia5 centuries in 5 consecutive test matches - Who are the players who have achieved it in test cricket? Kallis, Mohammed Yousuf and now Gautam Gambhir. Has anyone done better? who else, Don Bradman.Centuries against NewZealand (away), SriLanka and now Bangladesh has made Gautam Gambhir reach the elite list of players. He has been in prime form since the T20 World Cup two years ago...

India Wins 9 Odis In A Row

- April 27, 2009
The Indian ODI side, after ODI series wins away last year in Australia & Sri Lanka and at home against England, now has a 5-0 clean sweep in its sights in Sri Lanka.They’ve now won 9 ODIs in a row, 1 more than previous streaks of 8 - 1985, 2003 during the World Cup & 2006 in a thrashing of England. The interesting aspect is that all these sequences either started or ended in February!The Ind...

Rahul Dravid: Living In The Past?

- August 17, 2009
I’m with a French girl in the Highlands. She’s with a Scotsman who’s dived for scallops. Jethro Tull’s “Living in the past” starts to play:I’m thinking Rahul Dravid. His return to one-day cricket: what’s wrong with it?In this piece SP talks about among other things, how Dravid’s selection is a one off thing.In my opinion, it’s too early to call. Other than four slots – Sachin...