Rain saves India’s blushes against Aussies in 3rd match of DLF coup06…..what do u think???
Australia were denied a certain victory in the third match of the DLF Cup, as the wet weather played havoc for the second match in a row at the Kinrara Oval. After Australia mustered 244, India, set a revised target of 170 in 29 overs, were decimated by an outstanding spell of fast bowling by Mitchell Johnson, who ripped out the heart of the Indian batting in two hostile overs. He returned magnificent figures of 4 for 11 to have the Indians reeling at 35 for 5 in eight overs, before the rains returned to save India the blushes.
1st of all I would like to say is that: This what you have written is from the web-site www.cricinfo.com. Am I right?
Well, I totally don´t agree with you that “rain saved India´s blushes”. No, it´s absolutely rubbish! Because in that case if you look at the thing that “if there would not have rained, in the start of the Indian Innings, then India would´ve certainly won the match” look at the way Tendulkar smashed McGrath on the last ball. It´s not so effective in other case, but that was a moral boasting stroke. So, it means: India were looking good, along with Tendulkar. So, in that case I would say that “rain after the 5th over saved the blushes of Australia”.
I think it would be too harsh if we say that it was poor the way Indian batsman’s got out. Because they needed 155 in 24 overs, that too against the bowling attack like Australia is really really difficult. So, it was “cheating” in some cases, either by the referee or ICC. They reduced 21 overs, but they only reduced 74 runs. 170 in 29 overs was not as difficult as scoring it after scoring 16 in 5 overs. So, the game-plan and mindset was absolutely changed. And they had only 5 overs for the power-plays. So, they had to play bit attacking. And of course: Mitchell Johnson also bowled exceptionally well. Everyone in the commentary-box and analysis-box were saying that India should not send Pathan at no.3, before the rain intervened. But after the interval they had no choice, but to send Pathan at no.3 to score some qiuck runs and drop the required-run-rate. But unfortunately that didn´t work. I won´t blame him for that, because he got a really good-delivery. That delivery was aimed perfectly at the off-stump, inches away from the bat of Pathan. But I think they could´ve sent Dhoni at no.3. Because he would´ve either shown Mithell his right place, or either it would´ve been same story as with Pathan.
Allah may put Duckworth and Lewis in the Hell.
Now the next match between India West-Indies will be really poised. And it will be really interesting to see “how the Indians will react after such disaster”. “Will India be thrown out of the tournament?”. “Will India be able to perform well, specially their batsman´s?”. Well, we will have the answers to all the question that are arising in our minds after the match on Wednesday.
Thanks!
My old Mitchell Reel collection, Movie 1.wmv