Harbhajan, never mind if he was bowling bad or trash, should have been played and preferring Munaf ahead of him, was certainly a wrong choice. It told on India's bowling.
Be it in Bangalore against Pakistan in 2005 or against England in Mumbai, and now in Durban, when it's time to bat out the last day, this Indian team -- with some of the most talented and possibly a few of the greatest ever seen in their ranks yet --
I have rarely seen anybody, from the days of Hadlee and Kapil, to have the seam so still on its way to the batsmen. Sreesanth's release is also exceptional and if he can do so regularly he would always be a threat.
Tendulkar is just about beginning to show why he is everyone's favourite batsman. He still bears the most responsibility and perhaps rightly so for he has that genius factor which most, including his team-mates, don't possess.
The time for niceties is out and some plain talking must take place now. All is not lost yet but the Indians are getting there quickly.
You can meet as many times as you want in the hotel; have as many meetings as you could possibly squeeze in; hold as many video analysis as you humanly could; hold up coach or captain for your ills but the basic surge has got to come from the men in
India is a batsman or two short on this trip. As the series goes on, I suspect the Indians are going to miss more the Laxmans and Gangulys they have left back home.
The Indians sometimes appear so soft and laidback that they get threatened by the aggressiveness of the Australians and South Africans. Chappell knows all about being hard and tough.
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