PLAY POSITIVE CRICKET DHONI
We come across incidents when the new ball in Indian innings was taken by wicket keepers Budhi Kundrean and Syed Kirmani. We give very less importance to the new ball as we do not have a genuine fast bowlers to bowl 140 kmp hour and fetch some early wickets. Instead we bank too much on spin and put paid our hopes of claiming early wickets in any form of the game. Recently, it was no betters as we were outplayed in one day matches and lost the test series 0-1 to the number one test side in the world. We spare no efforts to work on the ball and get sufficient swing and fox the best batsmen in the world with lateral movement. Instead we struck around the old ball for 146 overs at Durban and the umpires force to change the ball in the end. Team India took the ball after 146 overs but one now understands that it was not by MS Dhoni's own volition but due to the umpire's intervention. It was learnt that that the India skipper was told by the umpires that they had to change the ball as the seam was coming off. Seeing South African onslaught and the total piling up to 500 plus total, Dhoni was scared to take the second new ball. On request of the umpires, MS Dhoni then decided to take the new ball. One wonders how a captain can act so negative on a foreign soil where the ball bounces and moves very well. Better council prevailed thanks to field umpires. The previous record of 185 overs with the old ball also belongs to Team India in the year 1962. In the last 50 years we have not done anything to improve the standard of fast bowling and Tom, Dick and Harry came and go without any advantage of taking the new ball. Strange are the ways of Team India's approach in Test Match cricket. Captain cool does not know the real value of new ball as he play negative cricket at home and abroad all the time.
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