Time for New Look???

First a big round of applause for the Bengal Tigers for beating yet another #1 ranked team.SA will be wondering what went wrong. But Bashar used his available resources extremely well.Its know fact that except Gibbs most of the proteas are very vulnerable to slow/spin bowling.If they dont have great start by attacking pacers, they are in trouble, and thats what happened on Saturday.

Next time, if a team aspires to be #1 and if they have Bangladesh tour, let them be prepared for it :).Excellent attitude from each of the 11 players of Bangladesh team. That won their game.Special mention and accolades for Ashraful. He is the man for occasion. Aussies still remember him.So are going to be proteas.
Let others stop calling them minnows anymore. Atleast for Bangladesh sake, i dont want Dav Whatmore to be the coach for our team. :)

A big sigh of relief as BCCI ensured the best-coach in the cricket-world now, does not part once for all.He has been given the role he will enjoy most. Coaching the future talents of our team at NCA.Good job there by BCCI.

Greg <-> Shastri, Robin, Venkatesh Prasad ?
Not exactly. But collectively their areas can be more focussed and it will be only augmenting our team's growth further. Lets wait for the board to come out with its long-term plans post Bangla tour next month.

Another excellent move is retaining Dravid as captain and that too announcing right upfront.He is one of the three consistent player and captain for the past 18 months in cricket world.Indications are pointing to INDIA boarding plane to Dhakka with a young team under Rahul's captaincy.All eyes now on Apr 11th 2007.

Hey man, look at this figures. Dhoni-13, Sachin-12, Dravid-11, Yuvraj-8, Sourav-8.No, its not their average scores in WC.Its their no. of  commercial commitments. I am sure i am not accurate here with the numbers as this could only be the minimum no.s.Thanks for the policy on endorsements too. Though the players have their own right to earn professionally, it irritates fans like me when we see commercials featuring them after recent performance in WC. I am sure Rahul and Ravi can maturedly work this out with the board with neccessary changes. But let the focus be on moving the team forward.

And finally with 35000+ runs between three of our batsmen and 5 of them having a strike rate of 85+ if you are still puzzled what could have possible gone wrong for our dismal performance in our one-week party at Carribean, read this article. (Thanks to Jay). It pulls out some interesting, very stunning stats and evidence about our key players' form. Enjoy the reading. You will for sure be surprised.

With Bangladesh winning against SA, its opened up chances for England / WI to make it to top 4 more brighter. Lets see if they make use of it. There is one team which is watching all these equations and number games with a big smile as they have nothing to worry. They are not much bothered even about Aussies. In fact its Aussies who are surely worried about this team. I am sure you would have guessed that team by now which could make it for the title clash with Aussies in which case i will be ruthlessly and selfishly supporting THIS TEAM. Lets see what next two weeks has in store in this unpredictable game.