Day two of the test match between India and England at Ahmedabad's Motera stadium certainly belonged to a true son of the soil Cheteshwar Pujara; his monumental/epic unbeaten double century and Ravichandran Ashwin's twin strikes at the fag end of the day's play certainly left team England's hopes and aspirations of making a fist of this test match in tatters.......
Cheteshwar Pujara certainly does have a voracious appetite for runs and more runs and his four triple tons and stupendous average of 54 plus at the first class level certainly more than prove this point; he seems to be one of those old world batsmen who rarely ever seem ruffled by all that goes on around them and more importantly possesses all the desired attributes of patience, skill, gumption, technique, temperament and single minded determination that indeed make him a natural successor to a certain Rahul Sharad Dravid........
If Mr. Pujara brought forth all the virtues of test batsmanship, the pied piper of Punjab let go of a golden opportunity of notching up a rare test century with his profligacy, impatience and impetuousness, Yuvraj Singh has certainly got to be the most natrually gifted batsmen that India has produced in a long, long time; but he throws his wicket away with sheer disdain as making runs seems to come too easily too him; while his antics might curry favour with the paying public, he certainly does drive cricketing afficionados round the bend with his penchant for gifting away his wicket to the opposition time and again.......
While, Yuvraj gave his wicket away to a bemused Samit Patel off a rank long hop, so called captain cool Mahendra Singh Dhoni pottered around for 37 deliveries before getting bowled round his legs by a marauding Graeme Swann, thereby becoming his fifth victim for the innings in the process, one really wonders why the selectors continue top persist with this rather sorry apology for a test batsman, his comical lunges at every delivery bowled at him and agricultural swishes with the bat only seem to underline the fact that here is a cricketer bereft of any semblance of a basic technique.........
His questionable tactics of prolonging the innings beyond a certain point must also be questioned, the team and nation as a whole would have been better served by declaring at the score of 500, thereby according the bowlers an opportunity of picking up a wicket or two more than the three that they eventually ended up with........
Any captain has got to justify his place in the team and Dhoni certainly seems to be doing everything to the contrary rather than justifying his inclusion, his technical naivete and lack of rudimentary cricketing skills saw team India suffer the ignominy of eight successive test defeats on foreign soil; many a former captain has lost both his captaincy as well as place in the side for seemingly lesser sins and it is common knowledge that Dhoni only continues to be the test captain due to the unstinted support extended to him by a certain Mr N. Srinivasan........
Ravichandran Ashwin only enhanced his reputation of being India's best spinner at present, his twin strikes (Compton and Trott) certainly did leave the ENGLISHMEN in tatters, while he bowled the former through the gate sneaking between bat and pad, the latter was well held at short leg by Pujara as he pooped up the ball of both bat and pad, with his twin Pragyan Ojha joining the party, the writing certainly seems to be on the wall in public view as far as team England are concerned.......
The Tamil Nadu offies fiftieth strike has more than dented the English team's confidence and only monumental efforts from the two not out batsmen; Cook and Petersen might just about end up saving them the blushes; team India certainly hold all the aces going into day three with a monumental 480 run lead, the English batsmen are certainly fighting with their backs to the wall and the Indian spinners will certainly look to keep them there..........
Cheteshwar Pujara certainly does have a voracious appetite for runs and more runs and his four triple tons and stupendous average of 54 plus at the first class level certainly more than prove this point; he seems to be one of those old world batsmen who rarely ever seem ruffled by all that goes on around them and more importantly possesses all the desired attributes of patience, skill, gumption, technique, temperament and single minded determination that indeed make him a natural successor to a certain Rahul Sharad Dravid........
If Mr. Pujara brought forth all the virtues of test batsmanship, the pied piper of Punjab let go of a golden opportunity of notching up a rare test century with his profligacy, impatience and impetuousness, Yuvraj Singh has certainly got to be the most natrually gifted batsmen that India has produced in a long, long time; but he throws his wicket away with sheer disdain as making runs seems to come too easily too him; while his antics might curry favour with the paying public, he certainly does drive cricketing afficionados round the bend with his penchant for gifting away his wicket to the opposition time and again.......
While, Yuvraj gave his wicket away to a bemused Samit Patel off a rank long hop, so called captain cool Mahendra Singh Dhoni pottered around for 37 deliveries before getting bowled round his legs by a marauding Graeme Swann, thereby becoming his fifth victim for the innings in the process, one really wonders why the selectors continue top persist with this rather sorry apology for a test batsman, his comical lunges at every delivery bowled at him and agricultural swishes with the bat only seem to underline the fact that here is a cricketer bereft of any semblance of a basic technique.........
His questionable tactics of prolonging the innings beyond a certain point must also be questioned, the team and nation as a whole would have been better served by declaring at the score of 500, thereby according the bowlers an opportunity of picking up a wicket or two more than the three that they eventually ended up with........
Any captain has got to justify his place in the team and Dhoni certainly seems to be doing everything to the contrary rather than justifying his inclusion, his technical naivete and lack of rudimentary cricketing skills saw team India suffer the ignominy of eight successive test defeats on foreign soil; many a former captain has lost both his captaincy as well as place in the side for seemingly lesser sins and it is common knowledge that Dhoni only continues to be the test captain due to the unstinted support extended to him by a certain Mr N. Srinivasan........
Ravichandran Ashwin only enhanced his reputation of being India's best spinner at present, his twin strikes (Compton and Trott) certainly did leave the ENGLISHMEN in tatters, while he bowled the former through the gate sneaking between bat and pad, the latter was well held at short leg by Pujara as he pooped up the ball of both bat and pad, with his twin Pragyan Ojha joining the party, the writing certainly seems to be on the wall in public view as far as team England are concerned.......
The Tamil Nadu offies fiftieth strike has more than dented the English team's confidence and only monumental efforts from the two not out batsmen; Cook and Petersen might just about end up saving them the blushes; team India certainly hold all the aces going into day three with a monumental 480 run lead, the English batsmen are certainly fighting with their backs to the wall and the Indian spinners will certainly look to keep them there..........
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