Well, at long last the business end of the World Twenty 20 championships currently underway in the emerald isles of Sri Lanka are finally upon us, the pretenders have been shown the door and the serious contenders have begun flexing their cricketing muscles......
Team India made it to the super eights stage of the tournament on the back of a lacklustre and a less than awe inspiring performance against minnows Bangladesh and an earth shattering performance against defending champions England, yet as usual team India continues being plagued by it's own set off unique worries and problems that has come to be synonymous with it over the ages.........
It's lack of death bowling and the presence of at least six laggards on the field in and every game on the field has indeed added to the pressure and enormous burden of expectations on the batsmen and come to mean that these indomitable warriors have to score at least 25 additional runs every time in order to address or take care of the bowling and fielding related anomalies.......
The absolute lack of bowling form on the part of the supposed spearhead of the Indian pace attack has certainly added to the furrows on skipper Dhoni's forehead and even caused him many a sleepless night; Zaheer has gone for plenty and even cost the team ten additional runs on the field......
Virender Sehwag's blow hot blow cold form or rather lack of it and Gambhir's prolonged poor run have added to the batting worries and though Gambhir did get a creditable and fluent forty odd against the mighty Englishmen, Sehwag's thumb injury and pronounced inability to get the team off to a sound start has certainly left the team management scratching it's head in collective consternation.......
A veritable drying up of runs at the top of the order ahs only added to the immense pressure on the current "Mr. Consistent" Virat Kohli, while Kohli is certainly in the form of his life right now and can seem to do no wrong and one of the rare Indian batsmen who faces up to the dreaded short ball with aplomb, a re failure against the marauding Aussies might all but paid paid to team India's chances of making it any further in the tournament......
Harbhajan Singh as well as Piyush Chawla's glowing success against the English lions has certainly added lustre to captain Dhoni's smile, it has also certainly added to his team selection related conundrum, while it is all but certain that Bhajji and Ashwin will certainly play as the two Indian spinners, Dhoni is left with a difficult choice between the experienced Zaheer, less than reassuring Balaji and error prone Ashok Dinda, but knowing Dhoni and his stated reluctance to upset the apple cart, don't be surprised if a creaking and cantakerous Zaheer Khan gets an extended run in the remainder of the tournament........
While the batting all but seems to take care of itself, Dhoni will have to call upon all his cricketing acumen and skills in order to make sure that his bowlers stop leaking additional runs, and more importantly be more than astute with his field placings in order to avoid conceding those twenty odd crucial additional runs.......
A virtual transformation of the insipid bowling and fielding is what is required to ensure team India's presence in the final stages of this prestigious tournament, will team India make that concerted effort towards pulling up it's socks and deliver jaw dropping performances, let'a all wait and watch with eternal hope in the heart and a prayer on our lips.......
Team India made it to the super eights stage of the tournament on the back of a lacklustre and a less than awe inspiring performance against minnows Bangladesh and an earth shattering performance against defending champions England, yet as usual team India continues being plagued by it's own set off unique worries and problems that has come to be synonymous with it over the ages.........
It's lack of death bowling and the presence of at least six laggards on the field in and every game on the field has indeed added to the pressure and enormous burden of expectations on the batsmen and come to mean that these indomitable warriors have to score at least 25 additional runs every time in order to address or take care of the bowling and fielding related anomalies.......
The absolute lack of bowling form on the part of the supposed spearhead of the Indian pace attack has certainly added to the furrows on skipper Dhoni's forehead and even caused him many a sleepless night; Zaheer has gone for plenty and even cost the team ten additional runs on the field......
Virender Sehwag's blow hot blow cold form or rather lack of it and Gambhir's prolonged poor run have added to the batting worries and though Gambhir did get a creditable and fluent forty odd against the mighty Englishmen, Sehwag's thumb injury and pronounced inability to get the team off to a sound start has certainly left the team management scratching it's head in collective consternation.......
A veritable drying up of runs at the top of the order ahs only added to the immense pressure on the current "Mr. Consistent" Virat Kohli, while Kohli is certainly in the form of his life right now and can seem to do no wrong and one of the rare Indian batsmen who faces up to the dreaded short ball with aplomb, a re failure against the marauding Aussies might all but paid paid to team India's chances of making it any further in the tournament......
Harbhajan Singh as well as Piyush Chawla's glowing success against the English lions has certainly added lustre to captain Dhoni's smile, it has also certainly added to his team selection related conundrum, while it is all but certain that Bhajji and Ashwin will certainly play as the two Indian spinners, Dhoni is left with a difficult choice between the experienced Zaheer, less than reassuring Balaji and error prone Ashok Dinda, but knowing Dhoni and his stated reluctance to upset the apple cart, don't be surprised if a creaking and cantakerous Zaheer Khan gets an extended run in the remainder of the tournament........
While the batting all but seems to take care of itself, Dhoni will have to call upon all his cricketing acumen and skills in order to make sure that his bowlers stop leaking additional runs, and more importantly be more than astute with his field placings in order to avoid conceding those twenty odd crucial additional runs.......
A virtual transformation of the insipid bowling and fielding is what is required to ensure team India's presence in the final stages of this prestigious tournament, will team India make that concerted effort towards pulling up it's socks and deliver jaw dropping performances, let'a all wait and watch with eternal hope in the heart and a prayer on our lips.......
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