Wow....Steyn and co. did walk their talk....SA just thumped India. It was an awesome team performance by SA. Amla and Kallis took care of the batting. Steyn and company including Harris (who was made to look like Lord Harris....damn it) took care of bowling out the Indians.
My earlier blog and predictions were 100% accurate. India really had to blame their bowling for allowing SA to get away from a start of 6/2. I don't understand the obsession with Bhajji and Ishant...these 2 really need a break. One 4-fer against Bangladesh doesn't put Ishant back in form. Bhajji struggled even against BL.
Sehwag commented that Bangladesh won't be able take 20 Indian wickets in a test match. Now the tables are turned....with this bowling line up its almost certain that India won't take 20 wickets - unless Zaheer and Sreesanth (assuming he plays the 2nd test) do some magic along with the most important thing in the match "the pitch".
It was unfortunate that Rohit was injured before the toss and the blame fell on selectors for not picking an extra batsmen. I thought Srikanth (chairman of selectors) gracefully accepted that they may have made a mistake....how many of the past selectors have done that ?
Gambhir had a rare failure - we must accept that he may have some bad days....others were not consistent - those who played well in the 1st innings didn't in the 2nd and vice vera....lack of consistency hurt us. This showed how badly we missed Dravid and Laxman.
I hope Laxman is fit for the 2nd test...however I am not worried about our batting....its our bowling which is looking terribly weak.......Ian Chappell was right......no wonder he was a great thinking captain for Australia.
Come on India - prove me wrong....else its going to be 1-0 to SA after a fighting draw in Kolkata.
Adios...............
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